Auto Accidents

Driver of an unstable SUV killed when her vehicle rolled over on a flat and dry rural road.

Truck rear-ends car with a 71-year-old driver, killing him.

Truck loses control and strikes car, killing young mother of two in Indiana.

33-year-old passenger on new custom motorcycle is thrown from vehicle and sustains fractured skull when front wheel locks up because of manufacturer's improper lubrication of wheel bearings.

74-year-old grandmother and passenger in car driven by her husband is struck and killed by police car speeding through intersection in residential neighborhood during non-emergency patrol without lights or activated sirens.

24-year-old woman driving southbound hit by car making left at intersection in Glenview sustains fractured leg that required surgery.

42-year-old male taxi passenger sustains severe facial fractures and dental injuries when cab runs red light at intersection and collides with another vehicle.

20-year-old passenger sustains multiple fractures when driver loses control of car and crashes into a tree.

A mother and her two children involved in a devastating truck-car collision on Interstate 90 near Rockford in 1999. After a month-long trial in the Cook County Circuit Court, Mr. Durkin received a $38.3 million verdict on behalf of the family in March, 2004 – the largest in the country that year involving a motor vehicle crash and was featured as one of the Top 100 Verdicts in the National Law Journal in 2005. Click here to read more about this case.