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About Margaret Battersby Black
Margaret P. Battersby Black is a Managing Partner at Levin & Perconti, where she focuses on nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, birth injury, and sexual assault litigation. She joined the firm as a law clerk in 2006, became an associate in 2008, and was named Partner in 2014. In October 2021 she became co-managing partner with Michael Bonamarte. Before law school she worked as a financial analyst at JP Morgan Chase. In 2026, she became the first attorney in Levin & Perconti's history to earn a spot on the Super Lawyers Top 10 list.
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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.
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.
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.
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