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Sean C. Burke focuses his practice on medical malpractice
and personal injury claims. Sean has obtained numerous injury
and medical malpractice settlements and verdicts on behalf
of his clients. Recent results include damage awards for:
- Six-figure verdict in favor of teenage boy who suffered permenent drop wrist during surgery to remove elbow chips
- Six-figure settlements with a national trucking company on behalf of two passengers who suffered shoulder injuries in collision with a tractor trailer
- Six-figure settlement against a suburban hospital that induced a stroke in woman undergoing a heart exam
- Six-figure settlement for a woman with permanent facial paralysis because of her doctor's delay in diagnosing a brain tumor
- Six-figure settlement on behalf of a young girl whose mother was killed in an automobile collision
- Six-figure settlement for a woman who suffered multiple leg fractures in an automobile collision
- Six-figure settlement for a woman who suffered multiple leg fractures at a suburban dress shop
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Prior to his practice as a personal injury trial attorney, Sean
successfully tried hundreds of criminal cases to verdict as a former
felony prosecutor.
Born Chicago, Illinois, 1964;
Admitted to Bar, 1989, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern
District of Illinois
College of the Holy
Cross (B.A., 1986 – Dean’s List); University of Illinois
College of Law (J.D., 1989 – Dean’s List);
Member
of Lake County Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois
State Bar Association (Tort Law Section Council, 2000 – Present),
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers
of America.
"When Do The Decisions
Of Public School Districts Deserve Tort Immunity," Tort Trends,
Illinois State Bar Association, June 2002; Amicus Curiae Brief to
the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of the Illinois Trial Lawyers
Association, Weiland v. Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc., 1999.
Personal Injury;
Wrongful Death; Medical Negligence. |
