Megan Shore-Toca

Bar / Professional Activity

• Illinois Trial Lawyer's Nursing Home Litigation Group, 2020
• Ohio State Bar, 2024
• Birth Trauma Litigation Group, 2021
• The John Marshall School Job Placement Advisory Board, 2016
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Diversity Caucus, 2020
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Women's Caucus, 2018
• Women's Bar Association, 2016
• American Association for Justice, 2016
• Chicago Bar Association, 2016
• American Bar Association, 2016
• Illinois State Bar Association, 2016

Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)

• $1,750,000 for an assisted living abuse and neglect case, 2025
• $1,800,000 for an Ohio assisted living neglect and abuse case, 2023
• $2,300,000 for failure to operate on a strangulated hernia causing death in a 78 year old woman., 2025
• $350,000 settlement for a hospital and nursing home pressure ulcer case of a living individual whose sores healed a year and a half later., 2020
• $1,500,000 for failure to diagnosis and treat an acute gastrointestinal bleed., 2021
• $1,250,000 for post-op complications from a failed anastomosis site., 2020
• $1.5 million for an acute gastrointestinal bleed causing death, 2021
• $200,000 settlement for a nursing home fall case., 2019
• $275,000 for an unwitnessed fall requiring surgery in a nursing home., 2019
• $192,500 settlement for an adult woman with severe mental illness who engaged in sexual contact with another resident without the consent of a guardian in a CILA facility., 2020
• $50,000 for a newly admitted resident who fell and broke his nose in a nursing home., 2020
• $195,000 for a elderly man who refused to eat and starved himself to death in a nursing home., 2020
• $275,000 in a nursing home pressure ulcer case., 2019
• $240,000 settlement in a nursing home pressure ulcer case., 2018
• $205,000 settlement (remainder of eroding policy) for a nursing home fall case resulting in hip fracture., 2019
• $250,000 settlement for a elderly man who had already been discharged and suffered a fall while getting ready to leave his hospital room resulting in a hip fracture requiring surgery., 2019
• $300,000 settlement in a nursing home fall case requiring surgery and wrongful death., 2020
• $350,000 in a nursing home pressure ulcer and wrongful death case., 2020
• $300,000 in an assisted living fall case resulting in a hip fracture and surgery., 2020
• $350,000 for a nursing failure to diagnosis UTI case., 2019
• $375,000 for a nursing home and hospital pressure ulcer case., 2019
• $375,000 for a nursing home fall case of a 105 year old woman., 2017
• $400,000 for a child abuse case in a CILA facility by a caregiver resulting in no physical injury., 2018
• $400,000 in a nursing home fall case., 2017
• $450,000 for a nursing home pressure ulcer case., 2019
• $495,000 for a nursing home pressure ulcer case., 2019
• $500,000 for an infected elbow wound at a nursing home., 2019
• $500,000 in a first rib resection surgery causing right side brachial plexus in an adult female., 2017
• $550,000 in a nursing home failure to manage and diagnose hyperglycemia and wrongful death case., 2020
• $650,000 in a nursing home and wrongful death pressure ulcer case., 2018
• $925,000 in a nursing home and wrongful death case alleging dehydration which caused the resident's death., 2018
• $750,000 in a nursing home fall and wrongful death case., 2018
• $800,000 for a nursing home and home health care pressure ulcer case., 2018
• $950,000 in a nursing home pressure ulcer case., 2019
• $975,000 in a nursing home fall case resulting in a neck fracture and death two weeks later., 2017

Videos

• NBC 5 Chicago Nightly News covered Megan's client, the family of David Mitchell, passed away while a resident at Symphony of Joliet of COVID-19. The allegations include Symphony's long term failure to adhere to policies and procedures, state and federal regulations, and CDC guidelines to prevent and protect residents from infection and practice basic sanitary measures., Illinois Nursing Home Lawyers File Lawsuit, 2020
• 2 Women Say Old Town Massage Envy Employee Sexually Assaulted Them, 2020
• Lawsuit accuses Bloomington facility of ‘gross negligence’ in COVID-19 death, 2021

Pro bono / Community Service

• Donated to the ITLA Food drive through The Chicago Greater Food Depository to provide meals to families who's children were no longer receiving their free meals through the Chicago Public School System as a result of COVID-19., 2020

Honors

• Super Lawyer’s Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2021
• Super Lawyer's Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2022
• Top 10 Nursing Home Trial Lawyer, The National Trial Lawyers, 2022
• Top 40 Under 40, The National Trial Lawyers, 2022
• To be considered for this scholarship, the candidate must be working full time and attending the school's evening program simultaneously while maintaining a high GPA., Dean Johnston's Scholarship Recipient, The John Marshall Law School, 2014
• Dean's List, The John Marshall Law School
• Megan placed 2nd for best appellate brief and 7th place for oral argument out of 124 students., Finalist in Herzog Moot Court Competition out of 124 student, The John Marshall Law School, 2015
• CALI Award Recipient for Civil Procedure., CALI Award Recipient, The John Marshall Law School, 2015

Educational Background

• Loyola University Chicago, B.A., Pre-Medicine, Biology & Business Management, 2010

Scholarly Lectures / Writings

• Combating Defense Obstruction in Medical Malpractice Cases, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, December 2019 Seminar
• Understanding the Leading Nursing Home EMR System, The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Winter 2020 Issue 
• Understanding Electronic Medical Records, The American Association for Justice, Spring 2020 Seminar 
• A New Nursing Home Playbook: Discovery What the Long-Term Care Industry Hides in Its Electronic Medical, Financial, and Staffing Information, The American Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, Spring 2021 Seminar 
• Nothing Good Happens After 3 Hours: Recent Literature Questions ACOG's Guidance on the 2nd Stage of Labor, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group Journal, July 2021 
• Ethical Trial Practice in the Digital Age, Northwest Suburban Bar Association, December 1, 2021 
• Understanding Electronic Medical Records and Audit Trails - 2 Part Series, American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants Conference, West Virginia, 2022 
• Understanding the Nursing Home Industry’s Leading Electronic Medical Record and Audit Data, American Association for Justice's Nursing Home Litigation Group's Webinar Series, Spring 2022 
• Understanding Audit Data in Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home Cases, Ohio Association for Justice Annual Convention 2022 
• Increasing the Value of Nursing Home Cases, Maryland Association for Justice, Nursing Home Litigation Group, January 2022 
• Be Audit You Can Be: How to Better Prepare Your Lawyer, 2022 LNC Success Conference 
• Exposing Nursing Homes, Trial magazine, June 2022 
• Nothing Good Happens After 3 Hours: Recent Studies Question Prolonged Second Stage of Labor, Author, Nothing Good Happens After 3 Hours: Recent Studies Question Prolonged Second Stage of Labor, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Group, 2021
• American Association for Justice Elder Abuse College 2023: Strategies for Record Breaking Results, 2023, Chicago, IL 
• American Association for Justice: 2023 Annual Convention Speaker, Connecting the Dots for Record Breaking Results, July 2023 
• Maryland Association for Justice Medical Malpractice Annual Seminar - Keynote Speaker and Presenter, February 29, 2024 
• Advocating for the Aging, Season 2. Assisted Living Facilities - What you need to know. March 2024. 
• Women in Trial Summit 2024, One Deposition. One-Thousand Admissions. April 7, 2024 
• American Association for Justice Elder Abuse College 2024: Depositions and Cross-Examination, Chicago, IL 
• George Trial Lawyers Association: Discrediting the Defense. October 2024. 
• American Association for Justice: Mediation: Novel Strategies for Record Breaking Results. November 2024. 
• Ohio Association for Justice: Dissecting Data to Discredit the Defense. November 2024. 
• Dallas Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect Litigation Group Regional Conference. Dissecting the Defense. November 2024. 
• American Association for Justice Webinar: Finding the Truth, February 5, 2025 
• The Elder Abuse Trial College: Compelling Stories, Levering Strategies, and Delivering Justice, April 2025, Chicago, IL 
• An inside look at nursing home EMRs and audit data., Writer, Point and Click: Exposing Nursing Homes, Trial magazine, 2022
• Megan presented at a two day seminar available nationwide by The American Association for Justice for over 125 attendees. The topics discussed were electronic medical records (EMRs), audit trails, and the law surrounding EMRs and audit trails., Presenter, Understand Electronic Medical Records, The American Association for Justice, Plaintiff's Medical Malpractice Lawyers, 2020
• Lectured on selecting, preparing, and direct examination of expert witnesses at trial at The John Marshall Law School, Trial Advocacy led by professor Justice Margaret Frossard., Presenter, Trial Advocacy, The John Marshall Law School, 2017

Firm News (Newsletters)

• The Chicago Tribune featured Megan's client and their lawsuit against Symphony of Joliet for failure to protect staff and residents from coronavirus., Lawsuit Claims Symphony of Joliet Failed to Protect Residents from Coronavirus
• Nursing Home Unlikely To Sway 9th Circ. In Virus Venue Fight
• Nursing Homes Struggle To Keep COVID Out As Deaths Rise
• 2 Women Say Old Town Massage Envy Employee Sexually Assaulted Them.
• The Joliet Patch featured Megan's clients and their lawsuit against Symphony of Joliet., Symphony of Joliet Wrongful Death Lawsuit

• Assisted Living
• community integrated living
• corporate setting
• Hospitals
• Nursing Homes
• Private Practice