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Gena Gruss Romagnoli

Of Counsel at Levin & Perconti
Chicago, IL21 years experience

About Gena Gruss Romagnoli

Gena Gruss Romagnoli is Of Counsel at Levin & Perconti, representing plaintiffs in complex medical malpractice and personal injury litigation in Illinois state and federal courts. After law school she worked for several years as a defense attorney handling medical negligence, premises liability, and personal injury matters. Since 2005 she practiced alongside her father, Henry Phillip Gruss, representing injured persons and their families before later joining Levin & Perconti as Of Counsel. Gena has served as lead or second chair counsel in 15-20 medical malpractice jury trials throughout Illinois and resolved 50+ cases through settlement or mediation. She was a Division I NCAA gymnast at the University of Illinois, where she earned Team Captain and Most Valuable Gymnast honors, and remains active as a gymnastics coach and on the USA Gymnastics Safety and Response Committee.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Levin & Perconti

These results are credited to Levin & Perconti. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$40 millionVerdict

A Coles County jury awarded $40 million to a 19-year-old and her parents after finding that hospital staff at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center delayed calling a physician during a placental abruption, causing preventable birth injuries including cerebral palsy.

Coles County, IL · 2023Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$12.2 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury delivered Illinois's largest-ever nursing home verdict, $12.2 million, finding that chronic understaffing at Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center caused Shirley Adams to develop fatal pressure wounds during her stay.

Cook County, IL · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$8.13 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $8.125 million to the estate of Althea Wright after a radiologist spent roughly 80 seconds reviewing a chest X-ray that showed a visible mass in her left lung, missing a Stage I cancer that advanced to fatal Stage III over the next 14 months.

Cook County, IL · 2020Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$8 millionSettlement

Silver Cross Hospital paid $8 million on the first day of jury selection to resolve a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a 61-year-old woman who died within 26 hours of admission after hospital staff failed to treat a septic kidney infection that records showed was apparent within two hours of her arrival.

Cook County, IL (New Lenox) · 2022Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$4.11 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury found in July 2017 that Clare Oaks, a Bartlett nursing home, let an 85-year-old resident go 14 days without her prescribed Coumadin, and she suffered a stroke on March 30, 2011. She died four years later. The jury assessed $4,111,477.66 against the facility, and the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed the verdict in August 2019.

Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (No. 13 L 2472, Judge Thomas V. Lyons II) · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Chicago-Kent College of Law
J.D., 2004
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
The Society of Trial Lawyers
American Board of Trial Advocates
USA Gymnastics Safety and Response Committee

Awards & recognition

Top grade in trial advocacy class at Chicago-Kent
NCAA Division I Team Captain and Most Valuable Gymnast (University of Illinois)

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