Matthew Dudley and Kevin Golden represented an eight year old boy who suffered from lack of oxygen prior to birth resulting in permanent and irreversible brain damage. The boy was awarded $24,000,400, one of the highest medical malpractice verdicts in the history of the State of Illinois. The jury concluded that the doctor failed to properly interpret a non-stress and an ultrasound both of which revealed very non reassuring findings. Dudley & Lake retained five highly credentialed medical experts in order to establish the defendant was guilty of medical malpractice and caretaking needs which would be needed.

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Matthew Dudley and Marisa Schostok represented a 14-year old girl who suffered from a lack of oxygen while in the emergency department of a hospital, resulting in permanent and irreversible brain damage. The girl was in the emergency department due to extreme lethargy, inability to control her secretions and vomiting. While in the radiology department for imaging studies, the hospital’s nurses removed her supplemental oxygen, pulse oximetry monitor and failed to protect her airway. Due to the lack of supplemental oxygen, monitoring device and airway protection, the girl was left alone, without oxygen, for over twenty minutes. As a result, she suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage. Due to her catastrophic injuries, the girl now requires 24-hour nursing care for the rest of her life. Mr. Dudley and Ms. Schostok were able to obtain a personal injury settlement against the north suburban hospital for $20 million.

Matthew Dudley represented a man from Morton Grove who was injured in a traffic accident in western Nebraska. The man was stopped as a result of an earlier set of accidents, exited his vehicle to check if anyone needed assistance, and was struck from behind by an 18 wheel tractor trailer. As a result of the accident, the man sustained reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) of his right arm as well as compression fractures to four vertebras. The man’s right arm, his dominant arm, was rendered useless. The obtained verdict set a state record of $11,230,000 as well as being recognized as the second highest in U.S. history for suits involving RSD.

Mr. Lake represents a nine year old girl, who was tragically injured when a concrete wall collapsed and fell on her at the United States Navy Base in Great Lakes, Illinois. As a result of this event, Mr. Lake’s client became blind in one eye, deaf and suffered significant scarring and disfigurement. Mr. Lake was able to achieve a global settlement with all defendants in this case for a total sum of $6,000,000.00.

Matthew Dudley and Marisa Schostok represented the widow of a 55-year-old man who died during a dental filling procedure. In October 2016, the decedent was receiving a filling by a dentist who administered sedation anesthetics for the procedure. The sedation dentist improperly administered sedatives to the decedent, and did so without a doctor trained in advanced life support present. During the procedure, the decedent, who had obstructive sleep apnea, began to exhibit alarmingly low blood oxygen levels and a low heart rate, indicating a blocked airway and respiratory distress. The dentist failed to recognize that the patient was unable to breathe. As a result of the dentist’s negligence, the decedent suffered respiratory depression which led to cardiac arrest and a permanent brain injury. He died seven days later after being taken off life support. Mr. Dudley and Ms. Schostok were able to obtain a wrongful death settlement against the north suburban dentist for $1.9 million.

Kevin Golden settled a case against a Chicagoland church where a volunteer sexually abused an eight-year-old boy with special needs at the church.