CHICAGO (June 13, 2025) – A Cook County jury awarded $20.5 million to the family of a young girl in remission from leukemia who died due to morphine toxicity as a result of prescribed pain medication. The case went to trial May 29 before Cook County Circuit Court Judge Brendan A. O’Brien.
“Our client’s death was preventable, it never should have happened,” attorney Matthew L. Williams told the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin’s Grace Barbic. “Now, the family can move on knowing that they have some justice in terms of the jury’s statement that this should not have happened.”
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