Selected by peers as a Leading Lawyer in:
Personal Injury Law: General
Extensive Experience in:
Medical Malpractice
Hospital, Physician, and Nursing Home Negligence
Construction Negligence
Product Liability
County: Cook
Litigator: Yes
E-mail: Joe.Miroballi@mdr-law.com
Attorney Biography:
Since 1980, Joseph J. Miroballi has been a zealous advocate for victims of wrongdoing, particularly for individuals who have been seriously injured as a result of medical malpractice, products liability, and construction accidents. In addition to trying cases successfully to verdict on behalf of those individuals, Joe also has successfully tried cases involving police misconduct and auto liability. His cases against major medical institutions in the Chicago area, including Cook County Hospital, led to much-needed reform in the way prescription medications are dispensed and administered to patients. In 2007, Mr. Miroballi and Mr. Durkin obtained a verdict against the City of Chicago in the amount of $4.2 Million as a result of a police chase case.
Bar Admissions:
Illinois Bar – 1979
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois – 1979
Education:
The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1979
Northern Illinois University, B.A., 1975
Bar/Professional Association Involvement:
Illinois State Bar Association; Board of Managers; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Illinois Trial Lawyers Association; Justinian Society of Lawyers; Chicago Society of Trial Lawyers
Employment History:
Miroballi, Durkin & Rudin, LLC, 2004 – Present
Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak & Kohn, 1984 – 2004
Albert F. Hofeld, 1979 – 1984
Cook County State’s Attorney, 1979
Notable Cases and Results:
$6,000,000 settlement for the negligent management of a baby's breathing tube that resulted in severe brain injury.
$5,100,000 settlement for a former college football player who, as an ironworker, sustained a head injury when a crane boom fell on him.
$5,000,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case involving a patient's suicide at a hospital.
$4,500,000 settlement for the full limits of insurance for the wrongful death of an ironworker.
$4,500,000 settlement for a brain-damaged baby resulting from misdiagnosed spinal meningitis.
$4,200,000 million dollar verdict for injuries received by two men when a stolen Chicago squad car broadsided their vehicle as they sat in the intersection of Pratt and Western five years ago.
$4,000,000 verdict in a medical malpractice action in Lake County.
$3,100,000 settlement for a little girl suffering brain damage following complications from cardiac surgery.
$3,000,000 settlement for the traumatic birth of a baby due to the failure to perform a Caesarian-section delivery in a timely manner.
$2,750,000 settlement for the nine children of a woman who died after receiving the wrong blood.
$2,250,000 settlement for post traumatic stress following a scaffold collapse from the John Hancock Building.
$2,250,000 settlement for a plaintiff in a 2002 scaffold collapse case where 3 people were killed and another 7 injured.
$2,000,000 settlement for the full limits of insurance for the wrongful death of a newborn who mistakenly received 10 times the required dose of Digoxon from a pharmacy.
$2,000,000 settlement for the full limits of insurance for the adult children of a man who died after surgery for a penile implant.
$1,000,000.00 verdict against a Defendant anesthesiologist for the wrongful death of the Plaintiff’s 72 year-old husband following routine gallbladder surgery.
$1,327,500.00 settlement for the wrongful death of a window washer who was caused to fall 7 stories from a scaffold while performing his duties at a commercial building.
$750,000.00 verdict against a Defendant orthopedic surgeon for his failure to diagnose and treat the Plaintiff’s shoulder injury, for failure to schedule surgery to repair the Plaintiff’s fractured arm, and for breach of informed consent.
$500,000 settlement for an HVAC worker at the Cambridge Lakes
Subdivision in Pingree Grove who sustained bilateral knee injuries which
required surgical intervention.