About Gary Cowan
Gary Cowan has been a personal injury trial attorney at Elk & Elk since 2001, focusing on serious personal injury, motor vehicle and trucking accidents, wrongful death, and products liability. With over 30 years of experience, he has served as lead trial counsel in more than 100 jury trials throughout Ohio. Gary's background in science helps him explain injuries and losses clearly to insurance carriers and juries. He is recognized by Super Lawyers, the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 in Ohio, and Best Lawyers in America from 2021 through 2026.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Elk & Elk Co Ltd
These results are credited to Elk & Elk Co Ltd. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Cuyahoga County jury awarded $39 million to the widow of a highway paving inspector struck and killed on Interstate 271 after the paving contractor failed to follow its court-approved safety plan.
A Fulton County jury awarded $2,761,228 to the widow and estate of James Worman after a fabricated axle shaft sold by Hart's Machine Service fractured beneath the couple's 1973 Honda trike, killing James and severely injuring his wife Pamela.
A Hamilton County, Ohio, jury awarded $2,063,255.51 to the family of Judy Helen Collins, 73, who died in November 2019 after complications of a hiatal hernia repair. Jurors found surgeon Robert Bradley, MD, liable for medical malpractice and wrongful death after he did not obtain a CT scan a radiologist had recommended and did not recognize signs of re-herniation. The same jury cleared the radiologist and his imaging group. The verdict came on Oct. 24, 2024, after a two-week trial.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
