Richard F. Burke, Jr.

A seventh grade girl was subjected to multiple instances of sexual misconduct during an afterschool program, resulting in significant emotional distress.

A 64-year-old man suffered a perforated small bowel during a gallbladder removal procedure resulting in sepsis.

The plaintiff suffered a broken leg when he fell down an outside auditorium staircase after attending a function.

A minor plaintiff suffered severe road rash, requiring skin graft surgery, when she was a passenger in a golf cart that overturned.

A 14-year-old minor fell 65 feet from a recreational climbing wall at a Chicago area health club after his instructor failed to ensure that his harness was secured with a proper type of knot. The young man sustained fractures of both heels and his arm, as well as a shoulder dislocation.

A 22-year-old male suffered severe burns to his chest when he fell onto a grate covering the heat source in a sauna.

A husband and father of two young children was killed when a semi-tractor tanker truck crashed head-on into his vehicle as he was going home to his family.

The defendant teenager backed into the plaintiff, who was his friend, resulting in a head injury.

Despite risk factors for coronary artery disease, a 56-year-old woman was taken to surgery for a hysterectomy without a pre-operative cardiac consultation. She died of a heart attack shortly after the surgery.