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About Andrew Mason
Andrew W. Mason is a founding associate attorney at Smith LaCien LLP. He became passionate about representing injured individuals after one of his siblings was in a life-changing motor vehicle accident. Before co-founding Smith LaCien with Todd Smith and Brian LaCien, Andrew worked as an attorney and law clerk at Power, Rogers & Smith, LLP and litigated complex corporate bankruptcies at a large Chicago firm. He also worked in banking and financial services at an international investment bank and a Chicago investment fund.
His notable results include a $30.5 million construction wrongful death and punitive damages settlement; a $9.5 million settlement for a cyclist whose wheel became lodged in an exposed streetcar rail causing a brain injury; an $11.5 million grain elevator explosion settlement; a $9.2 million medical malpractice and products liability settlement; a $7.375 million medical malpractice settlement; and a $2.8 million trucking case that sustained claims for shipper and broker liability. He also worked on the Sterigenics Ethylene Oxide Litigation Settlement. Andrew has been an adjunct law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law since 2017.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Smith LaCien LLP
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A Cook County jury awarded $51 million to John Reinke after OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center discharged him without testing his blood sugar, leading to a diabetic cardiac arrest that left him with a permanent brain injury.
A Cook County judge approved an $18.5 million settlement for Gabriela Cedillo, a 24-year-old extra who suffered catastrophic brain damage when a snapped tow cable tore through her windshield during filming of Transformers: Dark of the Moon in Hammond, Indiana.
Chicago agreed to pay $9.5 million to Catalin Dumitrescu, who suffered catastrophic injuries in 2014 when his bicycle wheel lodged in exposed streetcar rails that had been buried in an East Hyde Park street and then re-designated as a bike route without removing the decades-old hazard.
The estate of helicopter pilot Michael Russell recovered $8.15 million, then Illinois's highest reported product-liability settlement involving a helicopter, after a defective tail-rotor drive-shaft bearing caused his Agusta 109C to spin out of control and crash near DuPage Airport. Todd Smith and Brian LaCien, who later founded Smith LaCien LLP, handled the case at their prior firm, Power, Rogers & Smith P.C.
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