Chicago Personal Injury & Car Accident Attorneys

Cogan & McNabola, P.C.

9th Floor, 55 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601
USA

(312) 629-2900 or (800) 704-2900

(312) 629-2916

www.cogan-mcnabola.com

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Cogan & McNabola founding partners Michael Cogan and Mark McNabola are among the top 100 consumer attorneys in Illinois according to the "Leading Lawyers Network" and Illinois "Super Lawyers." They have achieved an AV®-rating for superior legal ability and ethical standards under the Martindale-Hubbell's peer review system. We put our extensive experience and skill to work helping individuals and families who have suffered injuries and losses due to the negligence and carelessness of others.

We help motorists who have been hurt in auto and trucking accidents. We seek full and fair compensation for people who have been harmed by medical malpractice due to a failure to diagnose or delayed diagnosis of cancer, and children who have suffered birth injury. We represent construction workers and others injured on construction sites. We represent those harmed by defective products. We also assist family members who have lost loved ones in pursuing wrongful death claims.

Our associates have impressive backgrounds, experience, and achievements. They have years of experience handling all types of personal injury and wrongful death cases, including construction accidents, medical malpractice claims, defective products, and motor vehicle accidents. One of our attorneys has decades of experience as an emergency room nurse. She uses this wealth of knowledge to help us research and investigate medical negligence and catastrophic injury cases. Together with highly trained paralegals and legal assistants, our attorneys at Cogan & McNabola, P.C. form a truly unique legal team dedicated to helping injured people throughout Cook County and the state of Illinois.

Practice Areas

Practice Areas Description

Cogan & McNabola offers legal services in the following practice areas:

- Motor Vehicle Accidents

The car accident attorneys at Cogan & McNabola, P.C., work hard to obtain maximum and fair compensation for injured drivers and passengers. Our firm focuses exclusively on personal injury and wrongful death cases. Our attorneys regularly work with medical experts from around the state and around the nation as we determine the extent of our clients' injuries and their treatment needs. Whether you have suffered a catastrophic neck or spinal cord injury, a traumatic brain injury or fractures, the impact of those injuries can last for years. We make sure our clients receive the medical help they need to reach maximum recovery and independence.

- Medical Malpractice

Medical negligence is often very difficult for average people to detect. Few people understand the complicated medical issues that are part of an illness or a pregnancy. At the Chicago law office of Cogan & McNabola, P.C., our clients benefit from the unique background and talent of attorney Patti Tuttle. Ms. Tuttle worked for nearly 20 years as an intensive care nurse prior to becoming a lawyer. Her medical background and the extensive trial experience of our partners ensure that you receive thorough, effective representation in medical malpractice cases. We have access to top medical experts from all over the country who help us review medical files and establish whether negligence occurred. Ms. Tuttle and our other attorneys handle any type of medical negligence case, including:

· Delayed cancer diagnosis: Timely diagnosis is vitally important in cancer treatment and survivability. When cancer diagnosis is delayed, patients and families suffer.
· Misdiagnoses and failure to diagnose: Failing to order needed tests and misreading tests and scans can lead to tragic results for ill patients.
· Birth injuries: Pregnancy, labor and delivery are dangerous times for fragile newborns. Diligence is essential for doctors, nurses and all obstetrical staff. Our firm has obtained large verdicts and settlements for newborns who were harmed during the birthing process.

Our firm has handled a wide variety of medical and nursing malpractice cases that occurred in a hospital, clinic or emergency room. We fight hard for people who have been injured by surgical errors, delayed cancer diagnosis, prescriptions errors, ER mistakes and failure to provide prompt treatment, misdiagnosis of illness, failure to diagnose problems during pregnancy or childbirth, and delivery room mistakes causing birth injury.

- Construction Accidents

Construction sites, whether residential or commercial buildings or road construction sites, are both busy and dangerous. Failure to use proper care, to follow safety procedures, to be vigilant on the job site, or to use tools with care can be dangerous not only for the construction worker, but for other workers around him or her. Safety is everyone's job; when a worker with another company is negligent, it can affect many others on the job site.

Injured workers may have three avenues to pursue compensation. If you were injured because your boss or coworkers were negligent - or through no particular fault - you can access state workers' compensation. We can provide you a referral to a dedicated workers comp attorney if you feel you have not been treated properly and gotten the money you deserve.

The other two possible cases that we can help you with are:

· A third party personal injury case if you were injured by the actions of a third party, a subcontractor, the employees of a subcontractor, a truck driver on the job site or another company
· A defective products case if you were injured by a defective tool or piece of equipment, such as a crane, ladder, defective scaffolding, power hammer, back hoe or other machinery.

- Defective Products

As the end-users of products, consumers have the reasonable expectation that a product will work and perform its function safely. If you have been injured by a defective product, you may be entitled to compensation. At Cogan & McNabola, P.C., we provide experienced representation to people who have been injured by defective products. Our attorneys strive to ensure that injured consumers receive fair treatment under the law and obtain maximum compensation for their injuries.

Designers, manufacturers, and distributors of defective and dangerous products must be held accountable for the injuries inflicted upon their consumers. Our firm is highly adept at uncovering potential liability and investigating the cause of the product failure. Defective products can harm consumers in various aspects of daily life, including at home and at work, including at construction sites.

- Wrongful Death

Wrongful death" is death caused by another person's carelessness or negligence. Each state has different time limitations for bringing an action for wrongful death. If a wrongful death plaintiff fails to present evidence of the decedent's average earnings, the court may set aside the jury's damage award and order a new trial. Because jurors may not be knowledgeable regarding the monetary value of a deceased housewife's services, experts may aid the jury in this evaluation. We can help coordinate the expert's calculation.

Partners

	Mr. Michael P. Cogan Founding Partner Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)		Mr. Mark E. McNabola Partner Birth Injury, Catastrophic Injuries, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Truck Accident
	Mr. Edward (Ted) McNabola Partner Accident, Animal Law, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Premises Liability		Mr. John M. Power Partner Personal Injury