Heidi Wickstrom
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About Heidi Wickstrom
Heidi L. Wickstrom is a Partner at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. in Chicago, focusing on catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, and mass torts. She joined the firm in 2018 and was promoted to Partner in 2023. Prior to that, she was an associate at a prominent New York litigation firm, assisting partners with multi-million-dollar recoveries including a $15.7 million verdict against Consolidated Edison of New York and verdicts of $10 million and $5.4 million against the New York City Transit Authority. She has recovered more than $425 million for clients at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, including a record-breaking $20 million settlement with the Chicago Transit Authority. She was elected to the American Association for Justice Board of Governors in 2020.
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A Cook County jury found Sterigenics and its corporate owners liable for Sue Kamuda's breast cancer from ethylene oxide emissions and awarded $363 million, then the largest individual-plaintiff verdict in Illinois history.
Eric Johnson, a 64-year-old Missouri courier, lost consciousness and later died after carbon dioxide from dry ice-packed strawberries filled his subcompact car in 2016. His widow sued Prairie Farms Dairy for failing to warn or train him. A Madison County jury awarded $49.5 million in compensatory and $191.5 million in punitive damages in February 2026. Prairie Farms later settled with the family after the verdict.
A Cook County jury awarded Tierney Darden $148 million after a 750-pound pedestrian shelter toppled onto her at O'Hare and severed her spine, a record the city later settled for $115 million.
A Cook County jury awarded $79.85 million to the family of a 10-year-old girl killed when an unauthorized Chicago police pursuit ended in a multi-car crash, a verdict the parties later resolved for $62.5 million.
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