Partner
Bradley M. Cosgrove is a partner at Clifford Law Offices who has been recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers. The National Law Journal has named Clifford Law Offices one of the Top 10 Litigation Boutiques in the country. Brad is an experienced trial attorney in the areas of medical malpractice, trucking accidents, automobile collisions, personal injury, and wrongful death who believes that results speak for themselves. As a young Chicago personal injury attorney, Brad undertook his first jury trial just one day after he received his law license on behalf of a woman that was permanently injured as a result of being hit by a car as she legally crossed the street within a crosswalk. Within five months after being sworn in as an attorney in Illinois, he gave the closing argument in a case that resulted in a $3 million gross verdict on behalf of a family who lost their father in a trucking accident. Brad was reported to be the youngest lawyer in Illinois to obtain a verdict in excess of a million dollars. This verdict was affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court in U.S. Bank v. Lindsey, 397 Ill. App. 3d 437 (1st Dist. 2009), and the case solidified logo liability in trucking cases throughout Illinois. Shortly thereafter Brad received his second million dollar verdict in a medical malpractice case. From there Bob Clifford offered Brad a partnership at the firm and he has been at the forefront many record-setting multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements that include the following:
SOME OF BRAD COSGROVE’S NOTABLE VERDICTS
$101 million record verdict on behalf of a baby who was brain damaged at birth at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. This is the largest medical malpractice verdict in the history of Illinois.
$66 million record judgment was obtained on behalf of a 39-year-old mother of four who bled to death following a negligent surgical procedure that went unnoticed.
$40 million record verdict on behalf of a 37-year-old man who suffered from a hypertensive stroke as a result of a Managed Care Organization’s physician’s failure to properly diagnose, manage, and treat high blood pressure. This is the largest medical malpractice verdict in the history of Illinois involving injuries from a stroke.
$21.5 million record verdict for a 6-year-old boy who drowned while at a public pool during a summer day camp. This is the largest verdict for a drowning victim in the State of Illinois.
$18.15 million verdict for a 17-year-old boy who sustained a brain injury after being struck by a negligent truck driver. The verdict also found that a large national shipping company was responsible for paying for the negligence due to the agency relationship between the Defendants.
$14 million record verdict on behalf of a woman who suffered a debilitating stroke after taking Yasmin birth control for 13 days. This is the first and only Yasmin case tried in the United States. This was the largest medical malpractice verdict in Illinois in 2014.
$9.53 million verdict was obtained on behalf of a suburban mom stemming from the negligent care of a cardiologist, electrophysiologist, and an advanced practice nurse over a period of 16 months leading to her death.
$8.5 million record verdict for a Williamson County man who died when a certified registered nurse anesthetist and hospital employees allowed the patient to become dangerously hypotensive. This is the largest medical malpractice verdict in the history of Williamson County.
$8.25 million verdict against a Chicago hospital on behalf of a family who lost their father and husband due to medical malpractice following a total knee replacement surgery.
$7.75 million verdict against a Chicago neurosurgeon on behalf of a widow, son, and daughter who lost their father and husband due to medical malpractice following a spine surgery.
$5.2 million dollar verdict for a 40-year-old woman who was the victim of obstetrical medical malpractice. She lost her 16 6/7th week pregnancy when an obstetrician negligently performed an ultrasound and failed to properly interpret its imaging.
$4.5 million record verdict for a woman injured by a door closer that fell and injured her neck. This was a DuPage County record for a non-medical malpractice case.
$5.0 million verdict for a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a truck driver’s negligence on I-65.
$4.0 million verdict in a medical malpractice case for the estate of a 51-year-old man who died from hypoxia, obstruction of airway, and hematoma following a carotid endarterectomy.
$3.35 million dollar verdict against a neurologist for her failure to properly read an MRI of the brain allowing a brain tumor to grow.
$3.15 million record verdict in Winnebago County for the amputation of a man’s left leg due to a doctor’s negligence. This verdict is the largest verdict for a leg amputation in Winnebago County.
$3.0 million verdict as a result of medical malpractice that caused a pulmonary embolus and wrongful death of a Cook County man.
$3.0 million verdict for a family of 14 children who lost their father as the result of a trucking company’s negligence.
$1.26 million verdict for a woman who sustained an aggravation of preexisting degenerative disease in her neck as a result of a truck crash.
$1 million verdict for the family of a woman who died as the result of a medical resident’s malpractice.
$941K record verdict for a dog bite injury to the thumb of a child. This is the largest verdict resulting from a dog bite in the history of Illinois.
After Brad’s record-setting start, he continued to obtain numerous million-dollar settlements in Illinois as well as in other states. Brad has received numerous accolades recognizing his superior trial skills. The National Trial Lawyers named him one of the Top 100 Lawyers in the country. The Law Bulletin Publishing Company named him one of the Top 40 Under 40 attorneys in Chicago in 2014. He was named as an Illinois Rising Star for every eligible year from 2006. He also gives back to the profession and to the community through his work as a leader of the Chicago Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association as an elected Assembly member, and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association serving on its Board of Managers, as well as through the Wounded Warrior projects that helps veterans and their families.
Prior to joining Clifford Law Offices in 2013, Brad was the lead trial lawyer in record breaking cases and came to Clifford Law in 2013. In his first week at Clifford Law Offices, he immediately appeared before a jury trial at the Daley Center on behalf of a brain-injured child. Brad is extremely intense and focused, two characteristics that influence his performance as a nationally recognized personal injury attorney. He is a man who knows how to prepare for trial with a sense of purpose and organization while keeping the client’s best interest at the forefront of his thoughts. He has handled cases throughout Illinois including Cook, Champaign, DuPage, Will, Lake, Kankakee, Winnebago, Williamson, Ford, and Kendall Counties. Brad has also handled cases outside of Illinois including Indiana, Kentucky, Arizona, and Minnesota. He has argued several cases on appeal before the various Illinois appellate districts on catastrophic injury and death, and he has argued before the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Brad has lectured at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School on expert witnesses and trial practice, topics of which he has experienced numerous times as a Chicago medical malpractice attorney. He also has been invited to speak many times before the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association on a variety of trial preparation topics.
Brad was raised on Chicago’s South Side in the Beverly-Mt. Greenwood area, the son of a Chicago firefighter. In fact, helping people is in his blood – his brother and great-grandfather also are proud Chicago firefighters. He graduated from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was a member of the men’s swim team. He went on to the University of Illinois Chicago Law School on an academic scholarship. It was there that his love for the area of personal injury law began and where he honed his skills as a member of the trial attorney team. The trial team won the Chicago regional trial competition where Brad finished as a semi-finalist in the American Trial Lawyers Association Trial Competition in Miami, Florida. He is married and lives with his family on the South Side of the Chicago land area.
Brad Cosgrove’s reputation as a fair, tough, and successful advocate for those in need has made him a proud addition to the Clifford Law Offices’ legal team as a partner at the firm.
Areas of Practice
Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence
Personal Injury
