Corboy & Demetrio
About the firm
Corboy & Demetrio is one of the nation's leading plaintiff personal injury and civil trial practice law firms, based in Chicago and founded in 1952 by Philip H. Corboy. The firm represents individuals and families in aviation accidents, construction negligence, medical malpractice, product liability, vehicular and trucking collisions, premises liability and wrongful death matters. Its trial lawyers have obtained more than $5 billion in verdicts and settlements, including nearly 600 cases exceeding $1 million each. The firm took its present name in 1982 when Thomas A. Demetrio became a name partner.
Notable results
Thomas Demetrio of Corboy & Demetrio represented seven of the people killed and injured when a suspended work platform fell from the John Hancock Center in 2002, part of a $75 million global settlement reached on the eve of trial.
A Cook County jury found Advocate Condell Medical Center responsible for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father who suffered fatal baclofen withdrawal while waiting for a delayed surgery to replace his medication pump, and the verdict was later affirmed on appeal.
A Cook County jury awarded commuter Renea Poppel $29.6 million after a Metra Rock Island train took a 10 mph crossover at 69 mph and derailed, the largest Illinois verdict for one person injured in a mass-transit crash.
After one of the deadliest building failures in Chicago history, Corboy & Demetrio's Francis Patrick Murphy led 14 of the victims and their families to a $16.6 million global settlement against the property owner and the porch builder.
A Cook County jury held the City of Chicago liable for the 2018 death of Tuong Lam, 61, who bled to death over about 17 minutes after a driver fleeing an unauthorized high-speed police pursuit struck his car.
A Cook County jury awarded a Chicago physician $10 million, with $1 million more to her husband, after a severe fourth-degree tear from her 2010 delivery at Rush University Medical Center went undiagnosed.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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