Lance Northcutt
VerifiedAbout Lance Northcutt
Lance D. Northcutt is a Partner at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C., joining the firm in 2020 to focus on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, civil rights, and mass tort cases. A former Cook County prosecutor and law enforcement officer, he has recovered more than $925 million for clients. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he leads the International Comparative Advocacy Program in Dublin, Ireland, and previously served as Assistant Director of Advocacy at The John Marshall Law School.
Notable case results
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.
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.
A $45 million payout for 15-year-old Nathen Jones, left unable to walk, speak, or feed himself after Chicago officers chased a car over a minor traffic stop, believed to be the largest the city has ever paid for a police-pursuit crash.
After a Chicago police pursuit that broke department policy killed Stacy Vaughn-Harrell and an earlier $10.2 million jury verdict was thrown out on appeal, the City Council approved a $27 million settlement for her family.
Toxic tort jury verdict (Illinois record) for breast cancer from ethylene oxide emissions
Wrongful death jury verdict for dry ice courier
Wrongful death jury verdict for 10-year-old killed in police pursuit (highest reported Illinois police pursuit verdict)
For traumatic brain injury from vehicle pursuit
For pedestrian struck by CTA bus
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
