John P. Scanlon

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Secretary, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

Past Chair, Products Liability Committee, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

Past Chair, Tort Law Section Council, Illinois Bar Association

John P. Scanlon focuses his practice on representing people injured by defective products and workers injured while at their place of employment.

He graduated with departmental honors from Illinois Benedictine College and attended the College of Law at DePaul University where he served on the DePaul Law Review staff. He has been admitted to the Trial Bar of the United States District Court.

He is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, now the American Association for Justice (ATLA/AAJ). In 2010, John was appointed by The Illinois Supreme Court to serve on its jury instruction committee. John is currently the Secretary of the Illinois Trial Lawyers and is the past chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Tort Law Committee and the Products Liability Committee of ITLA.

John recently authored an article in Trial Magazine on "Truck Underride" which is published by the ATLA/AAJ. He has also authored chapters for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association on the subjects of pre-trial mediation and hearing loss caused by industrial noise. John has spoken for the Illinois State Bar Association on the topic of construction site accidents and for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education on Products Liability topics. John has also authored several articles published by the Illinois State Bar Association in The Tort Trends newsletter.

He has obtained many awards and verdicts on behalf of injured workers, including a record $24,000,000 verdict for a young man who suffered paralysis as a result of a defective motorcycle and a $21,000,000 resolution for a family injured by a defective minivan. He has also successfully pursued appeals in the Illinois Appellate Court.

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Personal Injury
Workers' Compensation

Bar Admissions

Illinois, 1990

$25.1 million jury verdict for a driver who was rendered paraplegic in an intersection collision in Schaumburg. This was the largest verdict in Illinois for a case involving paraplegia.
$25 Million jury verdict for one driver involved in an Intersection collision which rendered both drivers paraplegics.
$24 million jury verdict against Yamaha for a victim who became a paraplegic due to a defective motorcycle. This was the largest verdict in Cook County for a paraplegic.
$23.7 million for victims of a trucking accident in Plainfield that resulted in two deaths and a severe injury to a third person. The jury verdict was the largest ever in Will County.
$20.2 Million Judgment Entered Against Dean Foods and Tractor-Trailer Driver for the Death of three teenagers on 4th of July weekend.
$12 Million Settlement for two mechanics killed when fire erupted at Clark Refinery.
$9 Million Judgment Entered Against Trucking Company and Driver for running over a laborer on a construction site.
$8.1 million jury verdict verdict for a person who was rendered quadriplegic after diving into a residential swimming pool in Palos Hills. The jury verdict was the largest in Illinois for a swimming pool accident.
$7.5 Million awarded by jury in Wrongful Death suit against town of Cicero for Halloween crash.
3rd District Appellate Court Rules for Healy Law Firm client in Ford Explorer rollover fatality.

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