Larry R. Rogers Jr.

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.

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 $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.

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.

On March 10, 2009, two plainclothes Chicago officers went to Matthias Mayhorn's home to arrest him on a domestic investigative alert, and one of them shot him as he tried to leave through a second-floor window. In May 2015 a Cook County jury found the shooting unjustified and the officers willful and wanton, and awarded his estate $1.5 million against the City of Chicago and both officers. A city payout database lists $1.5 million paid in the case.