EDITORIAL REVIEW
Cavanagh picked up $7.5 million for a woman whose doctors didn’t provide a timely
EKG and $2 million for a woman killed during a police-car chase.
— Lawdragon,
February 2007
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Timothy J. Cavanagh is a founder and partner of Cavanagh Law Group in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Cavanagh concentrates his
practice in plaintiff's personal injury trial work and handles catastrophic injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death
cases. Mr. Cavanagh has obtained over $150 million in verdicts, settlements and judgments in his career including the
following recent results:
- $3 Million Settlement for Electric Shock Injury
- $13.7 Million Verdict Against Test Driver of BMW in High Speed Crash
- $21 million railroad crossing verdict (recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the top 100 verdicts in the
country in 2002);
- $14 million medical malpractice settlement;
- $9.1 million railroad crossing settlement;
- $7.5 million medical malpractice settlement;
- $5.7 million auto-pedestrian settlement;
- $4.5 million product liability settlement;
- $4.1 million automobile crash settlement;
- $3 million product liability settlement;
- $2 million verdict against the City of Chicago in a police pursuit case;
- $1.2 million auto crash settlement;
- $1.02 million automobile crash settlement;
- $1 million truck-car crash settlement;
- $1 million car crash settlement; and
- $1 million medical malpractice settlement.
Mr. Cavanagh was named a Super Lawyer by Key Professional Media, Inc. through the research of Law & Politics in the years
2005-2009. Leading Lawyers, a Division of Law Bulletin Publishing Company has named him a Leading Lawyer every year since
its inception in 2003 - an honor that is limited to the top 5% of lawyers in Illinois. He is a member of the Board of
Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and an invited member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. In 2001,
he was selected by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of the "40 Illinois Attorneys Under the Age of 40 to Watch."
He has appeared on all local television stations and as a guest on "The Today Show" on NBC, "The Abrams Report" on MSNBC,
"The O'Reilly Factor" on FOX and the cable television program "Illinois Issues in Review." He is a frequent lecturer and
speaker at legal seminars throughout Illinois.