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CHICAGO— In accordance with a draft Plan of Compromise and Arrangement filed with the Quebec Superior Court today in the CCAA case for Montreal Maine and Atlantic Canada Co. (MMAC), nearly $200 million in settlement funds will be distributed to the victims of the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec train derailment disaster that occurred on July 6, 2013. According to the trustee for Montreal Maine and Atlantic Canada Ltd. (MMA), MMAC’s U.S. parent company, a similar plan will soon be filed in the MMA chapter 11 case. In addition, the parties continue to pursue additional settlements with parties who are not yet contributors, failing which litigation will continue against those parties with the goal of materially increasing the settlement fund.

“We are pleased to finally reach a partial resolution and settlement for the victims of the train derailment disaster,” said Robert Keach, the appointed trustee for the MMA bankruptcy case. “Due to the diligence and respect by all parties associated with this plan in Canada and the United States, we have put forward a favorable resolution. With continued diligence by all parties, the settlement amount will be significantly higher.”

The settlement is subject to approval by the courts presiding over the MMA and MMAC cases. Upon approval, the settlement funds will be split and distributed to the following parties:

• The Wrongful Death Claimants, including 48 deceased victims and their families
• The Personal Injury and Moral Damages Claimants
• Property and Economic Damages Claimants
• Insurer Claimants
• Government Claimants

“Our litigation in Illinois played a dramatic role in increasing the amount of funds that will be distributed to our clients who are the families of the deceased victims of the Lac-Megantic disaster,” said Peter Flowers, wrongful death plaintiffs lawyer of Meyers & Flowers Law Firm in Chicago, who is working directly with Attorney Jason Webster, of the Webster Law Firm in Houston. Flowers and Webster represent the plaintiffs who died in the train disaster and their families. Attorney Mitchell Toups of Beaumont, Texas, is also involved in the legal representation of the wrongful death victims.

“We have driven the value in the wrongful death estate higher than our clients would have received under Canadian law,” Flowers said. “But, this is just the beginning of the settlements for our clients, as there are three huge contributors to this disaster, including World Fuel Services, Canadian Pacific Railway, and Irving Oil. And they are not yet contributing a penny to this resolution. We will turn over every stone on earth before we give up on them and intend on pursuing them in Illinois and any other state to ensure that they are brought to justice and held responsible for this disaster.”

Maragos was awarded $43.5 million for the premature and unnecessary end to his NFL career due to the improper care of his right knee injury by his medical team.

The verdict highlights the need for accountability to prevent similar incidents from repeating to professional athletes across all sports.

PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia jury ruled today that renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Bradley and national rehabilitation institute Rothman Orthopaedics are responsible for the premature and unnecessary end of former Philadelphia Eagles team captain Christopher Maragos’ NFL career. The closely-watched medical malpractice case could have implications for the treatment of professional athletes across professional sports.

The civil case revolved around a meniscus tear that Maragos’s medical team failed to treat and the medically negligent decision to advance his rehab, further damaging the knee. During the two week trial, the jury heard testimony from key experts in orthopedic medicine, as well as Maragos’ former teammates Nick Foles, Trey Burton and Jordan Hicks. Among other convincing evidence, Maragos’s legal team proved at trial that Rothman Orthopaedics created two separate medical charts for Maragos, one of which failed to include key notes about his injury and recovery.

“On Sunday, my team played the Superbowl, and I could only watch and wonder whether I could have been out there with him had I received proper medical care,” said former Philadelphia Eagles Team Captain Chris Maragos. “While I live in constant pain and will never get back on the field, I hope this decision sends a message to teams’ medical staffs that players are people, not just contracts.”

“This verdict will not bring back Chris’ NFL career, but we are grateful the Maragos family finally got a measure of justice,” said Peter J. Flowers, Partner at Meyers & Flowers. “But, this is only the beginning in our effort to demand further accountability for professional sports franchises and ethical treatment for athletes. This jury’s verdict serves as a reminder that any team’s doctor, in any sport, who jeopardizes the well-being of its players due to contractual obligations or financial incentives, will be held accountable for their misconduct.”

Maragos suffered a right knee injury during a game on October 12, 2017, against the Carolina Panthers. The injury was diagnosed as a torn right knee posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). Dr. Bradley performed a surgical repair of Maragos’s right knee and then oversaw and directed the post-operative treatment with the support of Rothman Orthopaedics.

In May 2018, an MRI revealed that Maragos’s injury had been getting worse and that he was suffering from a persistent partial tear. As testified to during the trial, Dr. Bradley and Rothman Orthopaedics should have held off on advancing Maragos’s activities in light of the results of this MRI. Instead, they released Maragos, allowing him to advance his rehab to include running on dry land. These activities, ordered by Bradley and administered by Rothman, resulted in undue stress on Maragos’s knee, leading to further complications and, ultimately, the premature end of Maragos’s NFL career.

“This case and this jury may have changed the course of history by now forcing these team doctors and trainers to stop worrying about when a player might return to play and start thinking about the next 50 years of a players life,” said Dion G. Rassias, Attorney at The Beasley Firm.

Chris Maragos was represented by Peter J. Flowers and Frank V. Cesarone of Meyers & Flowers, along with Dion G. Rassias and Jill Johnson of The Beasley Firm, a Philadelphia-based law firm. Maragos started his career with the San Francisco 49ers before winning the Super Bowl as a Seattle Seahawks player in 2014. He then signed a three-year contract to play for the Eagles in 2014.

About Meyers & Flowers

Led by Illinois Top 100 Super Lawyer and former President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Peter J. Flowers, the Meyers & Flowers team of experienced trial attorneys routinely take on large challenges and succeed. For more than two decades, the firm has represented clients both locally in Chicago and nationally in a full spectrum of cases involving catastrophic personal injuries, medical malpractice, workplace injuries, and wrongful death.

About The Beasley Firm

Established in 1958, The Beasley Firm has represented countless injury victims and has won more than $2 billion in compensation – something that few other law firms can truly match. Their Philadelphia personal injury and trial lawyers are passionate about advocating for the catastrophically injured: those who have lost loved ones, family members or those tragically hurt in a serious accident.

$12 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement for 7-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Who Suffered a Severe Brain Injury Because His Physicians Failed to Diagnose His Seizures

Meyers & Flowers trial attorneys Craig D. Brown and Peter J. Flowers recently finalized a $12 million medical malpractice settlement for a 7-year-old boy after his physicians negligently failed to diagnose and stop his seizures while he was a patient at a northern Illinois hospital for 36 hours. 

Adam was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was 2 years old. His cerebral palsy caused many significant physical and cognitive disabilities. In the spring of 2016, Adam was a second grader who had worked very hard to learn how to walk with a walker, read some picture books, and feed himself with his fingers. Although Adam could not speak very well, he loved going to school with his friends. He enjoyed an extremely close relationship with his parents and siblings and absolutely loved singing songs with his older sister when he got home from school. Although his disabilities required him to be dependent on adult supervision, Adam worked hard in physical therapy to develop physical and cognitive skills that maximized his level of independence and, thus, his ability to enjoy his life as much as possible.    

On May 2, 2016, at approximately 3 am, Adam’s family awoke to him having a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure. They administered his rescue medications, but his body did not stop violently shaking, so they rushed him to the Defendant’s hospital, which was only 2 minutes away. Immediately upon arrival, Adam was given an IV administration of medications that stopped his convulsive seizures right away. The seizure and the medications caused Adam to stay asleep for 3 hours while he was in the emergency room. This initial period of unresponsiveness is not unusual because his body needed time to recover from such a significant seizure. However, when Adam failed to wake up by 7 am, he was admitted to the hospital for observation. 

Over the next 24 hours, Adam remained unresponsive and made no progress toward returning to his baseline level of alertness. He also showed obvious signs that his brain was still seizing even though his body was not shaking, including having a high fever, muscle tightening, and an elevated heart rate. Adam’s mother, a registered nurse, repeatedly asked the doctors and nurses to order an EEG throughout the day, which could determine if his brain was still seizing, but his physicians did not order the EEG until 7 pm. 

Although no abnormalities were noted in the initial EEG, Adam was still unresponsive, so a pediatric neurologist practicing telemedicine from Florida agreed to monitor the continuous EEG that ran overnight and into the next morning. The next day, almost 36 hours after Adam arrived at the hospital, his doctors reviewed the entire EEG strip for the first time and determined that Adam’s brain had been seizing on and off the entire time he was in the hospital.      

After being transferred to a Wisconsin pediatric hospital via helicopter, Adam was diagnosed with a catastrophic global brain injury due to more than 36 hours of intermittent seizing. The tragic experience cost him every ounce of the autonomy he had worked so hard to gain since the day he was born. Now almost six years later, Adam is confined to a wheelchair, and he takes all his food through a G-tube. 

Meyers & Flowers trial attorney, Craig Brown, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against several of Adam’s doctors and the hospital that employed them because they failed to diagnose his continued seizures in a timely manner. Over the last 4 years, the Meyers & Flowers team, led by Craig Brown and Peter Flowers, devoted their full resources to aggressively litigating Adam’s case as efficiently as possible despite potential delays that could have been caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.   

“The hospital staff’s failure to use reasonable care caused our client to suffer a massive brain injury that could have been prevented had they simply ordered an EEG by 9 am when it was obvious something was wrong,” said Craig Brown. “The EEG would have shown Adam was still seizing, and his doctors would have administered standard anti-seizure medication that would have effectively and permanently stopped his seizures before any brain damage occurred.” 

Conversely, the doctors and the hospital aggressively defended the case for 3 years and denied they deviated from the standard of care. Their team alleged it was reasonable for the physicians to expect Adam’s “sleepy” period to last for 12-24 hours because his severe seizure at home had lasted many hours. Records taken by the nursing staff indicating Adam was “sleepy but arousable” and a lack of recommendations for an EEG from a consulting pediatric neurologist from Wisconsin strengthened the Defendants’ arguments. 

“The Defendants’ main strategy was to convince our jury that Adam’s seizure at home led to his devastating brain injury and the continued seizures he had for 36 hours at their hospital miraculously did not cause any harm because these seizures were not the type of seizures that can cause the brain injury Adam suffered,” said Mr. Brown.  

In order to meet their burden of proof, the Meyers & Flowers team hired twenty different expert witnesses from the best medical institutions in the United States to evaluate the complex medical issues regarding what Adam’s doctors did wrong and why Adam’s brain injury was caused by the undiagnosed seizures at the hospital, not by his seizure at home. Furthermore, Mr. Brown and Mr. Flowers had the added challenge of explaining to the jury how Adam’s life was severely and permanently impacted by this new brain injury, even though his cerebral palsy caused profound physical and cognitive disabilities before his seizure events. 

“This is one of the most complex medical cases any trial lawyer could handle,” said Mr. Flowers. “Thus, we presented the case to several different focus groups, and we conducted a mock trial so we had a very good idea how our jury was going to react to the evidence we would have presented at trial. The information we learned from our focus groups and our mock trial helped us evaluate our case and counteract all the Defendants’ arguments.”      

After a full-day mediation, the parties agreed to a settlement of $12 million to be paid partially by the hospital and one of the Defendant’s liability carriers. “It was an honor and privilege to represent Adam and his family in this case,” said Mr. Brown. “I am so thankful we were able to obtain justice and fair compensation for Adam. We are now working with Adam’s parents to create an Irrevocable Trust that will protect and grow Adam’s settlement funds. We are so pleased to be able to help them retrofit their home with Hoyer lifts, a therapy pool, and other amenities that will help Adam make the best recovery possible. Adam will now be able to receive the best medical care and rehabilitation services for the rest of his life.”  

“Craig did a great job of representing Adam – representing him before and after. For me it was so important for everyone who was involved in this case to get to know Adam. You could see his injuries listed on paper, but everyone needed to grasp the part of our son that was there before which we lost. And Craig really did that. Craig took the time to understand all of our hopes, dreams, and aspirations for our son’s quality of life going forward, so that he could be a good advocate for all that Adam truly lost. Craig really cared about Adam and was working for him in hopes of giving him a better life through the outcome. Now we have the ability to help make his quality of life all that we had wished for because of the fantastic work of the team,” said Adam’s mother. 

If you or a loved one were injured due to the negligence of a doctor or hospital, contact us today to explore your legal options. Contact our office at (630) 232-6333 or request a free case evaluation online. 

$10 Million Resolution for Family of Man Killed in Industrial Accident

In January of 2015, Meyers & Flowers received a phone call from Julie concerning a lawsuit she had filed against a major US corporation. Julie’s husband Joe was killed in an industrial accident inside a Chicago-area plant. When Julie spoke to attorney Craig Brown, she was frustrated by the slow progress of her case. Her attorney at the time had only completed three depositions during the 20 months the case had been pending, and the defendant had not yet made any settlement offers. Julie asked the litigation team at Meyers & Flowers to take over her case.

Over the next 19 months, Meyers & Flowers’ Craig Brown and Jon Mincieli completed 53 depositions, researched, retained and presented eight expert witnesses for deposition. The team also deposed three expert witnesses hired by the defense and conducted four mock trials. Ultimately, our attorneys negotiated a $10 million settlement with the defendant that was approved by the Court five weeks before the case was scheduled to begin.

“Joe was an amazing husband and father,” said Craig Brown. “As soon as we took over the case, we knew the best way to help Julie, and her family was to develop an extremely aggressive litigation plan and move this tragic case to trial as quickly possible. Powerful U.S. corporations, such as the one we were facing, never offer fair compensation unless they know the plaintiff has properly prepared the case for trial.”

“Craig and I dedicated the full resources of our firm to push this case to trial as aggressively as possible,” said Jon Mincieli. “Representing this family was one of the highlights of my career. I was honored and privileged to be in a position to help them recover not only fair compensation but also closure to litigation that was unnecessarily delayed before our involvement.”

Meyers & Flowers has decades of experience fighting for the victims of workplace injuries and wrongful deaths. If we can be of help to you or a family member, contact us at [email protected] or at (630) 232-6333.

$8.1 Million Wrongful Death Settlement Secured with Chicago Hospital

Meyers & Flowers secure $8.1 million settlement in wrongful death suit against John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

Chicago, IL – August 21, 2024 – Meyers & Flowers Trial Attorneys Craig D. Brown and Thomas M. Connelly recently secured an $8.1 million settlement against John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

Our client, John*, presented to the emergency room at Stroger Hospital suffering from left shoulder and abdominal pain following a minor car crash a few days earlier. After physical exam and diagnostic imaging were completed, John was diagnosed with a splenic laceration and was admitted for overnight monitoring.

The following day, John’s condition worsened, and he exhibited many signs and symptoms of internal bleeding, including an elevated heart rate, decreased hemoglobin, nausea, and difficulty breathing. Despite the clear signs and symptoms of internal bleeding, John was kept in the observation unit and was not transferred to the ICU for increased monitoring.  Sadly, after complaining for several hours, John coded and died.

After being contacted by John’s family, Attorney Brown and Attorney Connelly quickly filed a lawsuit against Stroger Hospital, successfully pleading around potential tort immunities that would have protected Stroger Hospital, a unit of local government, from liability.

Stroger Hospital argued that it did not deviate from the standard of care and that John’s death was unexpected and unforeseeable because no testing revealed John suffered from internal bleeding when he arrived at the hospital.

However, early in the discovery process, Mr. Brown and Mr. Connelly established a timeline of events demonstrating that Stroger Hospital failed to respond to John’s worsening condition despite several nurses sounding the alarms about internal bleeding concerns. Attorney Brown and Attorney Connelly successfully proved their timeline by eliciting helpful testimony from Stroger Hospital’s own employees.

Ultimately, Mr. Brown and Mr. Connelly built a strong case that revealed Stroger Hospital ignored the obvious warning signs of John’s active internal bleeding and failed to respond with one of several reasonable options, including sending John to the ICU or sending him to the operating room to remove his spleen.

In initial settlement discussions, the hospital attempted to diminish John’s family’s claim due to the low economic damages available. However, the Meyers & Flowers team rightfully established that John’s children suffered intense grief as a result of losing their father’s love, affection, and care. Because of Mr. Brown and Mr. Connelly’s vigorous and efficient efforts, the family was able to find closure and settle the case within 7 months of filing their lawsuit.

“This was an avoidable tragedy. While nothing can replace the damage our client’s family has suffered, we are hopeful that this settlement brings some well-deserved closure to the family and will provide for John’s children in the future,” said Attorney Brown.

Craig D. Brown, Thomas M. Connelly, and the entire team of trial lawyers at Meyers & Flowers have earned a reputation for relentlessly pursuing justice for people who have been seriously injured or killed by wrongful conduct. 

If you or a loved one has experienced negligent medical care, we want to hear from you. Call Meyers & Flowers at 630-576-9696 for your free, no obligation case evaluation.

About Meyers & Flowers

Led by Illinois Top 100 Super Lawyer and former President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Peter J. Flowers, the Meyers & Flowers team of experienced trial attorneys routinely take on large challenges and succeed. For more than two decades, the firm has represented clients both locally in Chicago and nationally in a full spectrum of cases involving catastrophic personal injuries, sexual abuse, medical malpractice, product liability, and corporate litigation.

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$7.5 Million Medical Malpractice Award for Severely Disabled Client

Second-Highest Medical Malpractice Award in Kane County History.

Attorneys Craig Brown and Peter Flowers recently obtained a $7.5 million settlement for their severely disabled client in a case that was pending in Kane County for less than 2 years.

On January 13, 2010, John complained to a nurse at his doctor’s office that he was experiencing headaches. He was concerned because he had no history of headaches. Four days later, John suffered seizure-like symptoms, which included contractions, difficulty breathing, and a loss of bladder control. John was monitored closely by his nurses and doctor for the next several days.

On January 21, 2010, John still had a severe headache causing dizziness, nausea, and fatigue. During a routine examination, John’s nurse noticed John’s right pupil was nonreactive. When John’s doctor examined him the next day, John’s pupil was normal, and he was feeling better, although he still had a severe headache. His doctor diagnosed him with a urinary tract infection based on some abnormal lab results and prescribed Tylenol with codeine for his headaches.

On January 24, 2010, John was found unresponsive but breathing with urine incontinence and priapism. His pupils were pinpoint and non-reactive to light. By the time John arrived at a nearby emergency room, he told the ER staff he was feeling better but still had a severe headache that started eight days before. An Emergency CT scan of his brain proved John had a small amount of bleeding from a blood vessel in his brain. The emergency room staff immediately decided to transfer him to a different hospital where doctors could perform highly advanced surgery to stop his bleeding.

John suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm on the way to the second hospital. Emergency surgery was performed, and his surgeons were able to stop the bleeding. Tragically, the massive amount of bleeding in his brain from his ruptured aneurysm caused severe, irreversible brain damage. Today, John is 50 years old and is totally disabled. He lives in a nursing home because he is no longer able to use his arms and legs in any meaningful way.

Attorneys Brown and Flowers filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against John’s doctors and nurses because the medical standard of care required them to understand and appreciate that John was experiencing abnormal neurological symptoms from January 17, 2010, until his aneurysm ruptured on January 24, 2010. Thus, they were required to obtain a CT scan on January 17. If the defendants ordered the CT scan earlier, they would have discovered his small brain bleed in time to successfully repair it before he suffered irreversible brain damage.

John’s mother, Theresa, and his sister Julie were appointed guardians of his estate and retained Mr. Brown and Mr. Flowers in March 2010. From the beginning, both attorneys knew John would never work again, and he would never receive high-quality medical care because he would be forced to become a public aid recipient.

They then developed an aggressive litigation plan designed to move his case to trial as quickly as possible, and over the next 13 months, Brown and Flowers devoted the full resources of the firm to John’s case. On November 18, 2011, shortly before John’s case was scheduled to start trial, a $7.5 million dollar settlement agreement was reached. The settlement amount was the second-highest medical malpractice award in the history of Kane County.

Brown and Flowers are now helping John and his guardians build a handicap accessible home with a voice-activated Hoyer lift that will transport him from room to room. Trust attorney Ted Meyers is also helping establish various trusts where John’s settlement proceeds will be used to obtain the best medical care and improve the quality and dignity of his life to the fullest extent possible.

“I cannot explain how much Craig and Peter’s representation has meant to our family during the worst crisis of our lives,” said Julie, John’s sister and guardian. “In addition to their skill, devotion, and integrity, our attorneys genuinely cared about this case and became our dear friends. Craig was always there when we needed his emotional support. His kindness and compassion helped us endure the painful process necessary to vindicate the lack of care and wrongdoing that was put upon my brother. My trust in his wisdom will always be one of the best decisions of my life.”

At First Trial Over Dangerous Household Product, Jury Awards $7 Million to Woman Disfigured by Exploding Cooking Spray

Videos and graphic images of exploding cans demonstrate the danger of household cooking spray cans; dozens of additional cases remain pending.

CHICAGO, IL–The first trial in a series of personal injury lawsuits related to exploding cooking spray cans resulted Monday in a $7.1 million verdict for a Pennsylvania woman and a reminder of the potential danger of the household cooking product.

A jury in Cook County Superior Court awarded a $7.1 million verdict to Tammy Reese, a Pennsylvania woman, who was one of dozens of people injured from exploding cans of household cooking spray made by the food packaging giant Conagra. The award includes $4 million for punitive damages and $3.1 million in compensatory damages for the plaintiff. These incidents, which have occurred in home kitchens and restaurants across the country, have led to permanent injuries for dozens of customers. A total of 56 cases have been filed with 61 injured plaintiffs since the complaint was brought forth against Conagra, which manufactures PAM and other similar cooking spray brands.

On May 9, 2017, Reese was working as a cook at a social club in Shippensburg, PA, when the cooking spray can overpressurized and exploded, igniting in flames and catching Tammy on fire. She sustained burns on her forearms, both hands, and her face.

“Nothing can begin to describe the excruciating pain and fear I felt that day. When I learned that countless other people had experienced what I went through and that no recall was ever made, I felt angry. I hope that they can get justice for the pain Conagra caused them to live with for the rest of our lives,” said the plaintiff, Tammy Reese.

Cooking spray is most commonly designed as an aerosol container that dispenses a fluid product under pressure. In 2011, Conagra began using a new kind of aerosol can in an effort to save money, as detailed in the lawsuits filed.

The new design is used primarily for cans that contain more than 10 oz. of product, the type usually sold at wholesale retail chains around the country under either the PAM label or generic store brands manufactured by Conagra for retailers. The new design includes a venting mechanism on the bottom of the can – visible as four U-shaped score marks – intended to allow the container to vent its flammable contents in a controlled manner. The plaintiffs in these cases have alleged that the design of the cans is faulty, dangerous, and prone to explosion.

“Conagra recklessly put countless people in danger when it became aware of the clear danger posed by these defective spray cans. It was even more irresponsible to reject a recall that could have averted additional injuries after these claims came to light, despite Conagra having known about these issues previously. While the jury’s award won’t be able to undo some of the victims’ injuries, we hope it can begin to undo some of the harm that Conagra caused them,” said J. Craig Smith of Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, one of the law firms representing the victims in the cases.

Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder and Meyers & Flowers, who represent the plaintiffs, have conducted unique research and product-safety testing on the design and safety of Conagra-manufactured spray cans. The research consisted of a variety of experts and lab tests over the course of several years. This extensive testing proved, undoubtedly, the defectiveness and faulty design of the bottom of Conagra cooking spray cans and the extreme safety hazards for consumers using the product.

“Overlooking the clear and present risk that their product caused to their customers just so they can turn a profit is one of the most shocking examples of corporate negligence that I’ve seen. While these defective cans are no longer being manufactured, consumers should still be aware that they are on the shelves and they can permanently harm you,” said Pete Flowers of Meyers & Flowers, who also represents the plaintiffs.

Evidently aware of the danger the new can design poses, Conagra has inferred to business partners that, as of January 1, 2019, it has discontinued additional production using the new design. However, the company refused to issue a nationwide recall of the already-shipped product, which has a shelf life of several years, resulting in the dangerous cans remaining on store shelves.

About Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder

Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, based in Connecticut, is a nationally recognized law firm that, in 2022, achieved a landmark legal victory on behalf of nine families of the Sandy Hook School shooting. The firm has also achieved record verdicts for people who suffer serious harm from violation of their civil or constitutional rights, medical malpractice, dangerous products, negligence, corporate or governmental abuse, and commercial misconduct.

About Meyers & Flowers

Led by Illinois Top 100 Super Lawyer and former President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Peter J. Flowers, the Meyers & Flowers team of experienced trial attorneys routinely take on large challenges and succeed. For more than two decades, the firm has represented clients both locally in Chicago and nationally in a full spectrum of cases involving catastrophic personal injuries, medical malpractice, workplace injuries, and wrongful death.