Some Firm Accomplishments
David De Jong was featured in the Chicago Lawyer magazine's Largest Settlement Survey (2009) for a $9 million settlement
$15 million settlement for a man injured due to a lab error
$2.15 million settlement for the family of a man electrocuted on the job while washing windows because uninsulated power lines were placed too close to the building
$5.9 million verdict awarded to a 71 year old woman rendered a quadriplegic paraplegic by a spinal injection
$1.7 million settlement to an infant who suffered brain damage because her mother's obstetrician failed to follow-up on abnormal prenatal findings and perform a timely cesarean section
$3.75 million settlement for a man who suffered brain damage because surgery was not timely done to relieve pressure from excess fluid in his brain
$9 million settlement for an infant who suffered cerebral palsy because the midwife, nurses and obstetrician caring for her during labor and delivery did not recognize that she was in fetal distress and deliver her emergently
$4 million settlement for an infant who suffered brain injury because her mother's physicians did not timely diagnose a placental abruption
$2.5 million settlement for a baby who suffered brain damage and hearing loss because of the failure to timely diagnose and treat hyperbilirubinemia
$1.95 million settlement for the family of a man who died as a result of cardiopulmonary arrest after post surgical extubation
$4 million verdict awarded to an infant who suffered brain damage because she was not properly monitored in the nursery
$7 million settlement for a 35 year old man woman who suffered brain damage when a breathing tube became dislodged as a result of medical negligence
$1.3 million settlement for the family of a child who died as a result of the failure to properly treat diabetic ketoacidosis
$4 million verdict awarded to 36 year old man for the failure to diagnose lung cancer
$6.5 million settlement for a 24 year old man who was rendered paraplegic by negligently performed spinal surgery
$4.75 million settlement for a child who suffered cerebral palsy because her mother's obstetrician did not do a cesarean section
$1.75 million settlement for the family of a woman who died as a result of the failure to diagnose internal bleeding
$3 million settlement for the family of a 51 year old man who suffocated because of the failure to diagnose the swelling of his airway after surgery
$1.75 million settlement to a 27 year old woman who required a kidney transplant because her doctor failed to diagnose her condition of vasculitis
$1.53 million in verdict and settlements awarded to the family of a 57 year old man who suffered a heart attack as a result of medical negligence
$3.4 million settlement for the children of a 34 year old man who died because a breathing tube was negligently inserted into his esophagus instead of into his windpipe
$1.9 million from a verdict and a settlement awarded to the family of a woman who died from breast cancer because her doctor failed to follow up on an abnormal mammogram
$3 million settlement for a 46 year old man who suffered a stroke caused by the administration of an experimental blood clot forming drug
