How We Have Helped

The focus of Spiros & Wall, P.C. is our clients. We are firmly committed to securing maximum awards on your behalf. Below are a few of our recent successes. Contact us to learn more about our areas of litigation and how you can put our expertise to work for you.

• $9,842,900.00 Personal Injury
  Minor male – 11 mths old – sustained subdural hematoma coupled with extensive bleeding and
  retinal hemorrhaging and required emergency craniotomy. Second largest verdict in Vermilion
  County history.
• $3,300,000.00 Medical Negligence
  52 year old female admitted to hospital for rehabilitation following a ruptured aneurysm and
  assessed plaintiff as a fall risk. The day before her scheduled discharge, a nurse let go of plaintiff
  while assisting her in order to open the bathroom door, causing her to fall backward, strike her
  head on a metal part of her bed and suffer subdural hematoma which led to her death 10 days
  later. Paid by Provena Hospital.
• $1,450,000.00 Personal Injury
  Largest settlement in Ford County, Illinois ever reported.
  47 year old female was the driver of a vehicle when a second vehicle ran a stop sign driving into
  the path of the plaintiff’s vehicle. Upon impact, the plaintiff’s vehicle left the roadway and came
  to a stop in a water filled culvert. Plaintiff suffered herniated discs requiring cervical
  discectomy, arthroscopic shoulder surgery for left shoulder impingement syndrome and
  permanent implantation of a spinal cord stimulator for RSD.
• $1 ,400,000.00 Medical Negligence
  Hospital staff improperly administered two doses of Vistaril via IV port to female plaintiff age
  42, causing vein necrosis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy affecting her arms and chronic pain
  syndrome. This is the highest Champaign County RSD settlement reported.
• $1 ,000,000.00 Personal Injury
  17 year old driver makes improper left hand turn, striking motorcycle
  driven by a 45 year old male, resulting in death.
• $850,000.00 Personal Injury
  38 year old male plaintiff passenger in truck that went off road and struck several trees. Suffered
  injuries to right leg requiring a mid-knee amputation.
• $825,000.00 Medical Negligence
  22 month old male infant was able to remove his mechanical ventilation while in the NICU and
  nurses failed to timely notice the removal, causing the plaintiff to suffer hypoxic brain injury,
  resulting in decision to terminate life based on neurological deficits. He had been diagnosed with
  Cerebral Mandibular Syndrome at the time of birth, which is a genetic condition which results in
  mandibular malformation and other deformities, and had been hospitalized and on mechanical
  ventilation since birth.
• $750,000.00 Personal Injury
  52 year old male struck a semi when the semi failed to stop at a stop sign and pulled into plaintiff’s path of travel. Plaintiff was pronounced dead at the scene.
• $700,000.00 Medical Negligence
  Female plaintiff admitted to hospital for induction of labor due to being post due date and was
  induced using Cytotec and Petocin. Despite being admitted, physician, who left on vacation
  prior to delivery, failed to complete a biophysical profile and document risk factors associated
  with delivery. Three days after induction, Petocin was restarted and artivical rupture of
  membranes performed. Fetal monitoring strips showed abnormalities from onset and throughout
  state one and two of labor. Fetus was in severe fetal distress at time of delivery and nearly
  stillborn and subsequently died 2 days after delivery.
• $700,000.00 Medical Negligence
  70 year old male presented for Nissen fundoplication procedure. The balloon dilator was
  retracted while the balloon was still inflated, causing a tear in the distal esophagus. Plaintiff
  suffered from post-operative complications, including dysphagia, which is permanent in nature.
• $700,000.00 Medical Negligence
  Female plaintiff, age 43, underwent open reduction and internal fixation performed by defendant
  physician for a fractured ankle. Following surgery, plaintiff experienced continued pain which
  was found to be a broken screw in her ankle. Another surgery was performed, during which an
  intra operative culture was taken. The culture was returned after 72 hours showing slow growth
  of a staph epidermis infection. Plaintiff s ankle was still not healed following the second surgery
  and defendant recommended a third procedure. Another culture was taken during the surgery
  and revealed the staph infection was still present. Defendant testified he had never seen either
  report. Plaintiff sought treatment from another physician who attempted a fusion, but the
  procedure failed due to plaintiff s ongoing infection. Plaintiff suffered from CRPS also known as RSD.
• $504,000.00 Nursing Home Negligence
  93 year old female nursing home patient suffered multiple bruises to her face, arm, back and
  wrist while living at a nursing home. She was later allegedly raped at the facility as well.
  Plaintiff charged that the nursing home ignored signs of a possible threat to plaintiff and that the
  home’s administration failed to timely respond to news of the assault and failed to timely notify
  the police. Settled for the nursing home’s policy limits.
• $440,000.00 Medical Negligence
  Defendant hospital recommended tracheotomy and tonsillectomy when not surgically indicated
  immediately after 31 year old male suffered facial trauma, failed to secure the trach tube and
  monitor plaintiff post-surgically, allowing plaintiff to remove trach tube and failed to timely
  contact a physician, causing plaintiffs death. Paid by self-insured hospital.
• $360,000.00 Personal Injury
  33 year old female employed by a convenience store was walking by a cooler, when a worker for
  a beverage distributor pushed open the door to exit the cooler and hit the plaintiff in the head
  behind the ear, which rendered her unconscious. She suffered a closed head injury, depression,
  memory loss, cervical strain, left elbow contusion, migraine headaches myofascial pain and
  fibromyalgia. The settlement was paid by the beverage distributor.
• $358,670.00 Personal Injury
  Defendant driver under the influence of alcohol and drugs crossed into oncoming lane while
  passing a vehicle and struck plaintiffs motorcycle head on, causing his death. Defendant’s
  insurance paid policy limits plus defendant paid $83,670.
• $350,000.00 Personal Injury
  47 year old male was attending an annual carnival when he tripped and fell over unprotected
  electric cables at a ticket booth and sustained a right tibia injury which required an open
  reduction internal fixation.
• $350,000.00 Personal Injury
  51 year old male was involved in a collision while stopped waiting for a vehicle in front of him
  to make a left hand turn when he was rear ended by defendant driver who was ticketed for failure
  to reduce speed. As a result of the collision the plaintiff sustained multiple level cervical spine
  injury and underwent a cervical discectomy and fusion surgery.
• $320,000.00 Worker’s Compensation
  42 year old male was a passenger in a semi which struck a 50 car train and suffered open
  comminuted fractures of the legs, fractures of the face and burns to the feet.
• $320,000.00 Worker’s Compensation
  Truck driver while on duty involved in a multiple vehicle collision.
  Femur fracture and foot scarring.
• $300,000.00 Personal Injury
  40 year old male was traveling on a motorcycle when he collided with the defendant driver who
  turned into the path of the plaintiff. The plaintiff suffered multiple rib fractures, wrist fracture,
  scalp laceration and contusions to the knee, as well as multiple bruising. He underwent surgery
  for an open reduction internal fixation.
• $300,000.00 Personal Injury
  82 year old female front seat passenger when defendant failed to stop for red light and broadsided
  plaintiff’s vehicle. Left corneal transplant wound performed 11 years previously required
  emergent surgery and caused visual acuity in left (dominant) eye to go from 20/200 to finger
  counting.
• $292,000.00 Personal Injury
  Retired male plaintiff backed out of an angled parking spot into path of defendant and sustained
  subdural hematoma which resulted in death several days later. Defendant’s insurance paid
  $25,000 policy limits and UIM coverage paid $267,000.00.
• $285,000.00 Personal Injury
  62 year old female tripped and fell when an elevator stopped below floor level. Plaintiff suffered
  a left comminuted patella fracture which subsequently became infected. Multiple surgeries were
  required, as well as a nursing home stay.
• $275,000.00 Nursing Home Negligence
  Nursing home failed to comply with doctor’s order to place bed alarm allowing 82 year old
  female patient to leave her bed and room and fall in another resident’s room causing hip fracture
  with open reduction internal fixation.
• $275,000.00 Personal Injury
  46 year old male was a passenger on a wave runner when it stopped and was struck by a second
  wave runner, knocking the plaintiff off into the water. Plaintiff sustained injury to the
  lumbosacral region and a pelvic hematoma. Because of difficulty ambulating while recovering,
  the plaintiff suffered an ACL tear which required surgery.
• $254,000.00 Worker’s Compensation
  53 year old male union carpenter fell over electrical cord and suffered ulnar impaction of the
  right wrist.
• $225,000.00 Worker’s Compensation
  37 year old female Sales & Collection Manager instructed to perform inventory. While
  descending from 3 totes which she was standing on, caught her foot on the end and fell, twisting
  her back and neck. Petitioner suffered a moderate sized central herniation at L5-S 1 and
  underwent lumbar surgery.
• $214,000.00 Worker’s Compensation
  57 year old male factory worker suffered herniated discs while turning a spool of wire and
  underwent lumbar fusion and attended post surgical physical therapy.
• $210,719.00 Worker’s Compensation
  48 year old female police officer fractured tibia while running up steps during a police response
  which required surgery.
• $207,500.00 Personal Injury
  48 year old female was rear ended by tractor trailer while stopped for traffic on interstate.
  Plaintiff suffered aggravation of pre-existing back problems and brachial plexus injury.
• $202,268.99 Personal Injury
  Female plaintiff, age 48, was ascending the steps of an apartment when she tripped/fell due to
  defects (Uniform Building Code violations) and her right hand/arm crashed through a window.
  Plaintiff severely lacerated the ulnar aspect of the wrist (artery; nerve; ligaments) which resulted
  in permanent deformity to her arm/hand.