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About Michael D. Ditore
Michael D. Ditore is a Partner at Power Rogers, LLP with more than a decade of experience representing individuals and families in high-stakes personal injury litigation. Mike has served as first-chair and lead counsel in multiple medical malpractice and catastrophic injury/wrongful death jury trials, and an elite track record in high-stakes cases which has led him recover more than $125 million in verdicts and settlements, including multiple seven and eight-figure results in recent years. In 2022, Mike obtained a record-setting $42.4 million medical malpractice verdict and successfully defended the result on appeal. In 2023, Mike obtained a $10.5 million wrongful death verdict for the family of a man killed during a police pursuit.
Mike was listed in Top 50 Verdicts in Illinois in 2019 for a $2.6 million jury verdict he obtained in a medical malpractice case. In 2024, as lead counsel, Mike obtained multiple seven-figure results, including a $7.7 million settlement for a man injured in an auto collision. Mike has also secured record wrongful death recoveries in Kane and McLean Counties. Mike was selected to the 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, after previously being selected to the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch."
Proven verdicts and settlements at Power Rogers LLP
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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.
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