Thomas Demetrio

Thomas Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio represented seven of the people killed and injured when a suspended work platform fell from the John Hancock Center in 2002, part of a $75 million global settlement reached on the eve of trial.

A Cook County jury found Advocate Condell Medical Center responsible for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father who suffered fatal baclofen withdrawal while waiting for a delayed surgery to replace his medication pump, and the verdict was later affirmed on appeal.

A Cook County jury awarded commuter Renea Poppel $29.6 million after a Metra Rock Island train took a 10 mph crossover at 69 mph and derailed, the largest Illinois verdict for one person injured in a mass-transit crash.

In May 1990 a Cook County jury awarded $22,358,814 to a 23-year-old flight attendant who was left an incomplete quadriplegic when a semitrailer struck her stopped car from behind in Highland Park, Illinois, in November 1987. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed in January 1997 but cut the future medical care award by $1 million, so $21,358,814 stood.

A Cook County jury found the University of Chicago Hospitals negligent for lacking a second operating room and attaching a fetal monitor late, delaying a 1988 cesarean delivery. The boy born that day has permanent brain damage and needs 24-hour supervision. The jury awarded $10,912,500 on the prenatal count, and the First District upheld it.

Two brothers were burned in a July 1963 calcium stearate dust explosion at a Cramer Company mill in Oak Lawn, Illinois. After a 1971 directed verdict for Swift & Co. was overturned on appeal and the case retried, a 1994 jury found Swift failed to warn of the explosion hazard. It awarded $4.25 million to Izzie Baylie and $1.95 million to the estate of his brother Forest Bailey.

A breast cancer patient's chemotherapy catheter was only partly removed in 1990, and a nine-centimeter fragment later migrated to her heart. A Cook County jury in late 1997 found the surgeon and Evanston Hospital negligent and awarded $3.5 million. The Illinois Supreme Court in 2002 upheld the $3 million in pain and suffering awards and sent the $500,000 increased-risk element back for a new damages trial.

Thomas Demetrio negotiated a confidential settlement for Dr. David Dao, the 69-year-old physician dragged off an overbooked United flight at O'Hare in a 2017 video that spread around the world.