Lives can be ruined or lost due to careless and negligent conduct. Such catastrophic injuries can be caused in many ways, ranging from the malpractice of a medical professional, such as a doctor, hospital, or pharmacist, to the unsafe construction of a school bus, to the negligence of a careless driver. David A. Axelrod & Associates has the skills and experience necessary to win the maximum compensation for victims of negligence. That includes the steadfast commitment to take a case to a jury.

The firm’s use of teams of attorneys, paralegals and support staff when taking on hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, manufacturers, and others whose carelessness has caused people to suffer has resulted in millions of dollars in recoveries for its clients since David A. Axelrod & Associates was founded in 2001.

Lawsuits may settle on the courtroom steps but often they do not. Lawyers representing those whose negligence has caused serious injury or death are fully aware that David A. Axelrod & Associates can and will take a case to trial if a fair settlement cannot be obtained. Indeed, the firm assumes that every case will go to trial.

This approach has resulted in substantial successes for the clients of David A. Axelrod & Associates as follows:

• Won a jury verdict of $31,351,107 against Walgreen Co. due to its failure to properly control and inventory the use of narcotic controlled substances causing the jury to find that a drug abusing pharmacist placed the wrong pills into a customer's prescription bottle which led to permanent kidney failure and brain injuries and, ultimately, death;

• Negotiated over $10,000,000 in lifetime payments from Lutheran General Hospital and a doctor for a child who, at the age of 22 months, suffered from acute and undiagnosed kidney failure leading to multiple surgeries, hospitalizations and long-term risk of end stage kidney failure;
  
  
• Recovered $4,500,000 from Northwestern Memorial Hospital for the failure to diagnose and treat a continuing surgical infection which caused the client to suffer from septic shock, multi-organ failure, nine years of illness and, ultimately, death;
  
  
• Settled a personal injury lawsuit against a bus manufacturer for $3,000,000 in a bus rollover case alleging product defects.  The payment was based upon an alleged product defect in the chassis and warning mechanism supplied by General Motors Corp.;
  
  
• Recovered $2,100,000 from Lutheran General Hospital and a doctor for the mother and sister of a 22 year old man who died while in the Lutheran General Hospital intensive care unit because they failed to make sure he was receiving enough oxygen;
  
  
• Received $1,950,000 from a urologist and his practice for their failure to diagnose and treat recurrent bladder cancer for a period of almost 2 years causing the cancer to spread and eventually kill the client;
  
  
• Won a jury verdict in the amount of $1,500,000 from a hospital and two doctors who caused their 79 year old patient to die because they performed surgery to remove his gall bladder in spite of evidence of existing heart failure;
  
  
• Collected $925,000 from Holy Cross Hospital and a surgeon who failed to properly monitor a wound infection in a 76 year old woman which was allowed to spread into her blood and heart valve eventually killing her;
  
  
• Won an $814, 444 jury verdict from a cardiac surgery practice because of the failure to timely diagnose and treat a surgical infection causing the client to lose his sternum; and
  
  
• Recovered $450,000 from Highland Park Hospital for the family of an 82 year old woman who died after she was released from the emergency room even though she had a serious heart condition.

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