Francis P. (Frank) Morrissey
Top rated Medical Malpractice attorney in Chicago, Illinois
Morrissey Legal Group, LLC
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Products Liability; view more
Licensed in Illinois since: 1993
Education: Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2005, 2009 - 2024 Call today:
312-815-5856
Morrissey Legal Group, LLC
180 N. Stetson AveSuite 1976
Chicago, IL 60601 Visit website
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Francis P. (Frank) Morrissey is the founding partner of Morrissey Legal Group, LLC, in Chicago. Focusing primarily on medical malpractice, birth and personal injury, and wrongful death, he has helped secure over $200 million in verdicts and settlements for individuals and families.
Frank has many notable achievements. In the fall of 2023, Frank’s client was awarded a $10 million verdict in a case with no pretrial offer. He has numerous other verdicts in the eight figures as high as $25 million for patients who experienced a birth injury, a misdiagnosis, a delayed diagnosis or a surgical error.
Frank has represented multiple patients in class actions against a major orthopedics manufacturer involving defective hip implants, as well as other class actions involving pharmaceutical-related claims.
Frank attended the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts (B.A.1990), and Loyola University Chicago School of Law (J.D. 1993), where he was on Law Review. He is licensed in Illinois and admitted to practice before all the U.S. District Courts in Illinois as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Professional legal organizations include:
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• Illinois Society of Trial Lawyers, President, 2020-2022
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• American Association for Justice
• Celtic Lawyer Society, President, 2021
Frank has received numerous awards and honors for his professionalism and service, including recognition as one of Illinois' Leading Lawyers in personal injury law and medical malpractice, and has been a SuperLawyer since 2005, as voted by his peers.
Practice areas
Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff, Personal Injury - Products: PlaintiffFocus areas
Birth Injury, Delayed or Incorrect Diagnosis, Medical Malpractice
- 80% Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff
- 20% Personal Injury - Products: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 1993, Illinois
Professional Webpage: https://www.morrisseylegalgroup.com/attorney/morrissey-franc...
- $25M verdict on behalf of a baby who sustained brain injuries resulting in cerebral palsy due to the failure of defendant to perform a timely c-section. (IL Cook County)
- $11M recovery on behalf of a baby who sustained brain injuries resulting in cerebral palsy due to the failure of defendant to perform a timely c-section. (IL Cook-Law)
- $10.9M recovery for a child born with cerebral palsy and other cognitive and developmental complications due to failure to adequately monitor heart rate and oxygen to his brain during water birth. (IL Cook-Law)
- $10.2M recovery for patient for failure to diagnose a heart condition that resulted in the patient suffering a major embolic stroke. (IL Cook-Law)
- $10M verdict for 35-year-old man who went to Rush-Copley’s Emergency Room and was misdiagnosed with a superficial skin infection when he had a limb-threatening, flesh-eating infection. Patient’s arm amputated below the shoulder because of the delay.
- $9.4M verdict for a woman who suffered an oxygen-deprived brain injury following gastric bypass surgery. Kathryn Parker, disabled v Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, Dr. Allen Mikhail, Rosen Medical Group LLC, d/b/a Lifeweigh Bariatrics 11C-7676 (U.S. District Ct. for the N.D.Ill.)
- $9.4M recovery for a child born with severe brain injuries and cerebral palsy due to failure of defendant to address fetal distress on the fetal heart tracings during delivery. https://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/9-4m-deal-ends-birth-injury-case-20190621
- $7.5M recovery on behalf of a baby who sustained brain injuries resulting in cerebral palsy due to the failure of defendant to perform a timely c-section. (IL Cook-Law)
- $7M recovery for an ironworker who suffered a severe foot and ankle injury on the jobsite. (IL Cook-Law)
- $6M recovery for a girl who suffered paralysis in her legs after a severe asthma attack. (IL Cook-Law)
- $5.5M recovery on behalf of a baby who sustained spastic quadriplegia and cerebral palsy due to the failure of defendant to perform a timely c-section. (IL Cook-Law)
- $5M recovery for the plaintiff who fell off a faulty table and sustained head injuries and paralysis below the shoulders. (IL Cook-Law)
- $5M recovery for brain injury from Gastric Bypass Surgery - woman with bleeding, clotting and digestive tract trauma following gastric bypass surgery. Suffered acute kidney dysfunction, hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest resulting in brain injury. (USDC IL NE)
- $4.6M recovery for a man whose doctors mistakenly removed both of his kidneys when intending only to remove one because the man’s kidneys were fused together. (IL Cook-Law)
- $4M recovery on behalf of a baby who sustained brain injuries resulting in cerebral palsy due to the failure of defendant to perform a timely c-section.
- $3.5M verdict for an 18-year-old boy when he suffered a cardiac arrest while he was admitted to the hospital for presumed pneumonia, which turned out to be an enlarged heart. Estate of Eric Bellows, deceased minor v Dr. Abed Elkader Dehnee, Cardiovascular Care Associates S.C., Dr. John Davis,Dr. Kathleen A. Behler, Optimus Hospitalists & Pediatric Subspecialists Ltd., Franciscan Alliance Inc., d/b/a St. JamesHospital & Health Care Centers 12L-1598. (IL Cook-Law)
- $3.5M recovery for patient who was failed to be diagnosed with a tumor that resulted in Stage IV inoperable metastatic kidney cancer and the patient’s death. (IL Cook-Law)
- $3.5M recovery for family of a patient who underwent a planned c-section and then suffered a fatal cardiopulmonary arrest due to a massive bilateral pulmonary embolus a few days later. (IL Cook-Law)
- $3M recovery for a patient who had spinal cord surgery that resulted in paralysis and cardiac arrest. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2.95M recovery for patient who had hernia repair surgery and experienced complications that resulted in multiple system organ failures and death. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2.5M recovery for patient who had laparoscopic total colectomy surgery resulting in post-op complications and hospitalization. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2.45 recovery for patient who entered an Emergency Room and was misdiagnosed and improperly treated resulting in sepsis, multi-organ failure and death. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2.25M recovery for patient who had surgery for a brain aneurysm and experienced post-op seizures resulting in paralysis and death. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2M verdict for work injury for a boilermaker who herniated his disc when he fell on a casino construction site. Cook County Brian Budrik v R. C. Wegman Construction Co., Interstate Scaffolding Inc. v Standard-Hayes Boiler & Tank LLC 03L-2942 Tried Sep. 20-Oct. 3, 2007
- $2M recovery for a patient who was misdiagnosed as having liver cancer when it was cirrhosis of the liver. Chemotherapy resulted in expedited kidney failure. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2M recovery for a patient with an enlarged heart receives a misdiagnosis and then suffers multiple heart attacks. (IL Cook-Law)
- $2M recovery for a patient with severe chest pains was failed to be diagnosed with having an aortic dissection that went untreated with a fatal result. (IL Cook-Law)
- $1.9M recovery for a female patient that had gallbladder removal surgery and died from severe internal bleeding. (IL Cook-Law)
- $1.89M recovery for a patient with an undiagnosed perforated colon that caused patient to suffer from peritonitis and septic shock. (IL Cook-Law)
- $1.85M recovery for family of a woman who died because of the failure to properly act on early-stage myeloma. (IL Cook-Law)
- $1.75M recovery for family of newborn who failed to receive intubation or esophageal intubation during delivery. (IL Cook-Law)
- $1.7M recovery for patient who enters hospital and is hit in the head and experiences traumatic brain injury requiring ongoing assisted living. Hospital failed to provide safe environment. (IL, Sangamon 7th Jud Cir)
- $1.62M recovery for a newborn who experienced injury during labor and delivery that caused damage to the shoulder and arm. ((USDC IL NE)
- $1.532M record verdict for an autistic teen who suffered side effects from prescribed medication called tardive dyskinesia (A. v. Segal, M.D.) (IL Cook-Law)
- College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, B.A.,1990, Board of Director, 1991
- Illinois Leading Lawyers (personal injury law, general and malpractice)
- Illinois Super Lawyer since 2009
- Illinois Super Lawyer, 2005
- Named one of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin's "40 Under 40" Illinois attorneys under the age of 40, 2003
- Irish Legal 100
- Celtic Lawyers Association, President, 2021
- Illinois Society of Trial Lawyers, President, 2020-2022
- Illinois Super Lawyers (personal injury plaintiffs for medical malpractice and product liability)
- Contributing author, Chapter 10 (“Fact Discovery”), Medical Malpractice 2011 Edition and (2013 and 2018, Supplements), Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (IICLE®)
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- Illinois Society of Trial Lawyers, President 2020-2022
- Celtic Lawyer Society, President, 2021
- American Association for Justice
- American Board of Trial Lawyers
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois, 1993
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Office location for Francis P. (Frank) Morrissey
180 N. Stetson Ave
Suite 1976
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-815-5856
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2005, 2009 - 2024
