Sexual Abuse
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Chicago Sexual Abuse Lawyers
Where sexual abuse is involved, too often large institutions such as the church and the Boy Scouts have chosen to protect their reputations at the expense of innocent children. Victims of child sexual abuse often suffer for a lifetime, blaming themselves for the criminal behavior of another. Many victims are unaware that the organizations they trusted knew about the abuser, did nothing to stop him and in some cases covered it up.
Read the Archdiocese of Chicago Secret Files. The Archdiocese of Chicago has released “documents relating to the sexual misconduct of thirty priests of the Archdiocese.” We have made them available for you to read. Click here to read the files on each priest.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of sexual abuse, you may be entitled to compensation.
HM&M has the experience and resources necessary to get justice from the large and powerful institutions that too often failed to prevent or stop the abuse. Even if the abuse took place years ago, the law can permit you to seek damages from those institutions.
HM&M pursues cases against all sexual abuse. Contact us today for assistance with all types of malpractice cases.
A Sample of Our Successes
- $89,100,000Sexual Abuse
Record settlement from the Boy Scouts of America for 16 childhood sexual abuse victims of notorious Boy Scout troop leader Thomas Hacker. HMM uncovered evidence that the Boy Scouts were aware of Hacker’s arrest in Indiana for sexual assault and battery of boys as early as February 1970. Yet because of the Boy Scouts of America’s inadequate screening system, Hacker resurfaced as a scoutmaster in Illinois later in the 1970s and continued molesting boys for the better part of two decades after that at a Boy Scout Troop based in Oak Lawn, Illinois and throughout the Chicago area.
- $41,149,942Medical Malpractice
Record setting 2024 jury verdict against OSF HealthCare System on behalf of 72-year-old man with atrial fibrillation [AFib] who suffered a catastrophic stroke because Cardiologists and Advanced Practice Nurses failed to monitor the patient’s INR levels or increase his dose of the anticoagulant medication Coumadin to prevent cardioembolic stroke.
- $31,723,388.20Medical Malpractice
Settlement in 2023 for a child with a brain injury, cerebral palsy and spastic quadriplegia who was injured at birth. The child’s mother was 36 weeks pregnant and went to a Chicago-area hospital’s emergency room in 2016 with headache, shortness of breath and protein in her urine, which are signs and symptoms of preeclampsia. Hospital emergency department personnel failed to transfer the mother to the labor and delivery unit for continuous electronic fetal monitoring and expeditious delivery of the baby, as required by the standard of care for the treatment of preeclampsia. Instead, hospital personnel transferred the mother to the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. When the attending obstetrician delivered the child by cesarean section approximately ten hours after the mother’s arrival at the hospital, the child was lifeless and had no pulse due to prolonged loss of oxygen, with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, APGAR scores of 0/0/0/0, and requiring twenty-five minutes of resuscitation.
- $31,250,000Product Liability
Record settlement where a defective product resulted in a severe and permanent injury.
