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Biography

Regina P. Etherton has a diverse and extensive personal injury litigation practice. She has prosecuted a broad variety of multi-million dollar complex tort, personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death claims. She has obtained record verdicts and settlements in Cook County and other counties throughout Illinois.

Below are just a few of Regina P. Etherton’s many accomplishments throughout her distinguished career:

-Selected to Illinois Super Lawyers list (2008-2010, 2013-2016)
-Selected as Top Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Lawyer by Leading Lawyers (2007-2016)
-Co-Chairman: Chicago Bar Association-Lawyer Referral Service (2015-2016) and Vice-Chairman (2011-2014)
-TV Show Featured Guest Appearance (3/14/2015 on MeTV and 3/15/2015 on MeToo TV) Produced/Hosted by Now.Chicago – WCIU THE U
-One of the Top Female Personal Injury Attorneys in Illinois (2008-2010, 2013-2016)
-Selected as one of the Top Attorneys in Illinois by Leading Lawyers (2008, 2009, 2014, 2015)
-American Bar Foundation – Fellow (2014-present)
-Regina P. Etherton & Regina P. Etherton & Associates, LLC-Nominees for 2014 Litigator Awards from Trial Lawyers Board of Regents
-Ranked 11th in Chicago’s Top 35 Verdicts & Settlements in 2012 and highest ranked female attorney on list
-American Bar Association, Appointed as Board Member-Standing Committee on Lawyer Referral and Information Service (2013-2016)
-Top 100 Leading Women Consumer Lawyers (2012-2016)
-Top 1% of Medical Malpractice Trial Counsel in Illinois (2012)
-Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association (2007-2011)
-One of Four Top Leading Women Attorneys in All Areas of Practice in Illinois (2009)(2011)
-Litigation Counsel of America: Trial Lawyer Honorary Society – Fellow (2010)
-Illinois Trial Lawyers Association: Board of Managers (2008-present)
-Multi-Million Dollar Advocated Forum (Lifetime Member) (2007-present)
-Million Dollar Advocates Forum (Lifetime Member) (2006-present)
-One of 500 Leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in America (2006-2007)

Our firm’s noteworthy verdicts and settlements have been featured in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin; Chicago Magazine; Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter; Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter; Verdicts, Settlements, & Tactics; Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Magazine; Vested Interest; Mealey’s Insurance Law Weekly; and the Justinian Society Magazine.

Below are some of the firm’s recent settlements and verdicts:

-$6,500,000 (Judgment) 57-year-old truck driver killed in downstate Illinois by a truck.
-$6,250,000 (Settlement) Married couple hit by a Chicago city dump truck on a downtown intersection while photographing a wedding.
-$2,218,665 (Settlement) with the City of Chicago for a downtown bicycle accident.
-$1,917,120 (Verdict) Record-setting verdict against City of Chicago for a 39-year-old male bicyclist who fractured his shoulder after hitting a pothole in downtown Chicago.
-$1,503,507 (Award) Declaratory judgment action against State Farm Insurance Company for failure to defend its insureds in a lawsuit that emanated from a trucking collision.
-$1,300,000 (Settlement) 84-year-old suffered leg amputation and subsequently died from complications after being struck by defendant’s vehicle at O’Hare International Airport.
-$1,051,234 (Verdict) Verdict for man whose internist failed to diagnose and treat syphilis.
-$1,000,000 (Settlement) 55-year old man whose internist failed to diagnose a rectal abnormality during two annual physical examinations which caused the tumor’s stage to advance.
-$1,000,000 (Settlement) 18-month-old death after misdiagnosis of middle ear infection by Chicago Hospital.
-$940,000 (Settlement) Plaintiff suffered neurologic injuries as a result of an internal medicine physician’s failure to properly diagnose his rash condition.
-$850,000 (Settlement) 71-year-old victim of Nursing Home malpractice.
-$750,000 (Settlement) 17-year-old misdiagnosed by a Chicago Hospital’s emergency room with bronchitis instead of congestive heart failure.
-$625,000 (Settlement) 8-day-old baby death due to improper prenatal care by a family practice physician.
-$600,000 (Settlement) 35-year-old male death after Chicago Hospital failed to timely perform hernia surgery.
-$600,000 (Settlement) 49-year-old female bicyclist who was struck by an SUV.
-$575,000 (Settlement) 45-year-old female patron of downtown Chicago sidewalk cafe who fractured her ankle when her shoe heel became caught in a tree grate.
-$500,000 (Settlement) 52-year-old immigrant whose internist improperly treated his cardiac arrhythmia.
-$500,000 (Settlement) Stillborn baby due to failure of a Chicago Hospital to properly evaluate the mother.

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Areas of Law and Practice

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Jurisdictions

• Illinois

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Employment History

• Director | Regina P. Etherton & Associates, LLC

  2005 - 2016

  As the director of Regina P. Etherton & Associates, LLC, Regina P. Etherton prosecutes a broad variety of complex tort, personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death claims. She has obtained record verdicts and settlements in Cook County and other counties throughout Illinois.

• Attorney | Peter D. Kasdin, Ltd.

  1986 - 2005

  Responsible for the prosecution and defense of complex tort, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and commercial litigation, from inception to conclusion.

• Associate | Jay A. Baier, Ltd.

  1984 - 1986

  Responsible for the prosecution and defense of complex tort, personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death litigation, from inception to conclusion.

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Education

• B.A. | Southern Methodist University

  - 1981

• J.D. | Loyola University

  - 1984

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