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Power Rogers LLP recovered $100 million for Rev. Scott and Janet Willis after six of their nine children were killed when a mudflap assembly fell from a tractor-trailer on I-94 and ignited their minivan, a case that ultimately exposed an Illinois license-bribery scheme and sent Governor George Ryan to federal prison.

A suburban Chicago man who lost both legs above the knee when a car jumped the curb and pinned him against a Bensenville 7-Eleven secured a $91 million settlement, the largest pretrial personal injury recovery in Illinois history, after Power Rogers LLP showed the company had documented thousands of similar storefront crashes and still refused to install protective bollards.

A Cook County jury awarded $95.5 million to a truck driver who lost both legs when improperly loaded carbon steel bundles fell from a crane during unloading, with a 10% comparative fault reduction bringing the net award to $85.9 million, the highest double-amputation verdict in Illinois history.

A 54-year-old woman underwent a routine bronchoscopy for a possible tuberculosis biopsy, but physicians ignored oximeter alarms and delayed intubation until she had suffered irreversible anoxic brain damage, leaving her with locked-in syndrome; the Cook County jury returned a $55.4 million verdict against the responsible physicians, then the largest medical malpractice award in Illinois history.

A 12-year-old girl suffered permanent, catastrophic brain damage after cardiac arrest during a PICC-line procedure at Highland Park Hospital, and Power Rogers secured a $40 million settlement that the Jury Verdict Reporter identified as the largest-ever Cook County recovery for a brain-injured minor.

After management at a Rogers Park senior building kept the heat running through a May 2022 heat wave, three elderly residents died of heat exposure; their families settled for $16 million against the building's owner and property manager.

A Cook County jury awarded the estate of attorney Michael McKenna $14.6 million, one of four separate awards totaling $33.4 million, after finding the building's security company failed to stop a known threat from reaching the 38th floor.

A Cook County jury awarded $11 million to the estate of attorney Allen Hoover, one of three people shot and killed on the 38th floor of 500 West Madison Street in Chicago on December 8, 2006. The jury found the building's security contractor, AlliedBarton Security Services, at fault for how its guards handled a visibly threatening visitor. The same trial produced separate awards to the families of the other two people killed and to a surviving office worker.

A Cook County jury found a scaffolding subcontractor negligent in the death of a maintenance mechanic killed when a truss fell eight floors at a Joliet power plant in 1999. It awarded $14.23 million and assigned the worker 35 percent of the fault. After that share and the settlements by two other defendants were applied, judgment was entered for $8.137 million, which the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed in 2010.

George Clarke Jr., 83, was struck by a Medley Moving and Storage van while crossing Michigan Avenue at 95th Street in Chicago in May 2002 and died of his injuries. A Cook County jury awarded his four adult children $1,725,000 on the wrongful death and survival claims, reduced by 1 percent for his own negligence to $1,707,750. The First District affirmed in March 2008.