About Madison Cogan
Madison B. Cogan is a Senior Associate Attorney at Malman Law in Chicago, who joined the firm in 2021. A native of the Chicagoland area, she focuses her practice on plaintiff representation in personal injury, medical malpractice, and nursing home neglect and abuse cases. Her legal career began with an externship for the Honorable Justice Terrence J. Lavin at the Illinois Appellate Court, followed by law clerk positions at plaintiffs firms in downtown Chicago. She was selected to the 2024 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.
Notable case results
A Cook County jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Sandy Brooks, an 85-year-old dialysis patient who died after a Richton Park nursing home sent him to none of his scheduled treatments, tying the largest nursing home neglect verdict in county history.
A Cook County jury awarded $3 million to the family of Norma Darnell, 76, who died of pneumonia after a nurse at Alden Courts of Waterford in Aurora gave her about ten times her prescribed hydromorphone dose.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
