CHICAGO (September 20, 2022) – A Cook County jury awarded a record-breaking $363 million verdict Monday to a woman who alleged that emissions from medical device sterilization company Sterigenics caused her to develop cancer, in the first lawsuit of more than 700 set to go to trial against the company. The total included $38 million in compensatory and $325 million in punitive damages in the lawsuit by Sue Kamuda of Willowbrook.
At a news conference Monday, Mrs. Kamuda’s attorney, Patrick A. Salvi II, addressed the jury awarding an amount exceeding the $346 million sought by the plaintiff’s team. “I thought that the numbers I asked for were reasonable. They thought it ought to be even more,” he said. “So I commend them for their courage.”
The trial and verdict were covered by a number of local and national media outlets:
Closing arguments:
- ABC7
- Chicago Tribune
- Chicago Sun Times
- NBC5
- WGN
- CBS
- Law 360 (copy and pasted below for those without a login)
- Illinois News USA
Verdict:
- Chicago Tribune
- Chicago Sun-Times
- CBS – National
- ABC News (National)
- The Washington Post
- The Independent
- The Associated Press
- Yahoo! News
- NBC 5
- ABC7
- WGN
- CBS Chicago
- FOX 32
- WBBM Newsradio
- Crain’s Chicago Business
- WGN Radio
- Illinois Patch
- Daily Herald
- WTTW’s Chicago Tonight
- PBS
- Northwest Indiana Times
- WBEZ
- The Darien Times
- Lexis Nexis
- MSN
- Crain’s (follow up)
- Effingham Daily News
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Law 360
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
- National Law Review
- Courthouse News
- Cook County Record
- Illinois River Bender News
- Bloomberg Law
- Modern Healthcare
- Medical Design & Outsourcing
- Med Tech Dive
- CBS Atlanta
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- FOX Las Vegas
