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Jon C. Papin

Jon C. Papin

Location:
Chicago, Illinois
Phone:
312-629-2900
800-704-2900
Fax:
312-629-2916
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Jon Papin joins Cogan & McNabola with over twenty years of experience as a personal injury and medical malpractice attorney. Jon Papin was previously a partner in the defense firm of Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey. For the last eight years, he has dedicated his law practice to representing victims of birth injury, medical malpractice, commercial trucking accidents and construction disasters.

In 2011, Jon Papin was also part of a Cogan & McNabola trial team which secured a jury verdict of  $6.952 million to a 61 year old man who lost his lower leg while working at a City of Chicago construction site.

In 2010, Jon Papin was part of the same Cogan & McNabola trial team which secured a record high wrongful death medical malpractice verdict in DuPage County. In 2008, he had over $30 million dollars in jury verdicts and settlements, including a $9.8 million verdict (which is the highest net jury verdict in Illinois for a case involving complex regional pain syndrome). A commercial trucking case venued in Federal Court in Chicago settled for $13 million dollars. It involved a fatigued trucker who caused the Wrongful Deaths of a mother and her two young sons. In the five previous years, he obtained more than $57 million in verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients. He holds several record Illinois jury verdicts and settlements and received the highest possible peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. (AV pre-eminent)

Jon Papin was chosen by his peers in 2008 as being in the top 5% of attorneys in Illinois and is a member of the Illinois Leading Lawyers Network. In 2011 he was selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers. He is the Illinois State Advisory Board Member to APITLA (Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America). Jon Papin works through this organization to reduce the number of injuries and deaths across America that are caused by unsafe and illegally operating trucking companies.

Areas of Practice

  • Birth Injury
  • Trucking Disasters
  • Wrongful Death Matters
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Construction Accidents

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois, 1989
  • Utah, 1984
  • U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 1989
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1989
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 1989
  • U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois Trial Bar, 1989
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois Trial Bar, 1989
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar, 1989

Education

  • University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky
    • J.D. - 1983
  • Brigham Young University, Utah
    • B.S. - 1980
    • Major: Business
    • Minor: Economics
    • Minor: Accounting

Past Employment Positions

  • Rapoport Law Offices - Chicago, Attorney
  • Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey - Chicago, Attorney
Our Results $475 Million
  • $14 Million
    For the family of a mother who died during child birth. Her newborn baby also suffered irreversible brain damage during the delivery at a Chicago hospital.
  • $11.4 Million
    Plaintiff was having a cervical fusion revision at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when his head dropped from neutral to 80 degrees.
  • $10.121 Million
    A Cook County jury returned the verdict in favor of a 72 year-old grandmother rendered wheelchair-dependent after a car vs. truck accident.
  • $10.1164 Million
    A 17 year-old girl was killed when she was struck by a vehicle which had previously collided with a Greyhound bus which was traveling too fast for conditions.
  • $ 7.875 Million
    A 64 year-old woman went to Swedish Covenant Hospital's ER with knee pain. She was treated and discharged. The hospital delayed the diagnosis and treatment of meningitis. The patient suffered a stroke and severe disability.
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