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 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.

Jacquelyn D. Melius settled a personal injury lawsuit for a 32 year old woman involved in a motor vehicle collision with a garbage truck. The garbage truck driver pulled out of a private driveway, into the woman’s lane of traffic, and collided with her vehicle. The injured woman suffered severe low back injuries, necessitating fusion surgery at L5-S1. The surgical recovery was complicated by the development of a deep venous thrombosis (DVT) that required placement of stents. The treating physicians opined that the young woman’s low back pain would likely be permanent.