Susan J. Schwartz Named to Loyola University Chicago School of Law Alumni Association Board of Governors

Corboy & Demetrio partner Susan J. Schwartz was recently named to the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Alumni Association Board of Governors. Schwartz graduated from Loyola University School of Law in 1980. She has been an active alum, both in the alumni association and as a lecturer and speaker at Loyola classes.

Schwartz joined Corboy & Demetrio following her graduation from Loyola, and she became a partner in 1994. Her practice centers on representing patients and their families in complex medical professional negligence personal injury and wrongful death actions.

Her efforts have resulted in a number of awards in excess of $1 million for her clients. Recently, Schwartz obtained a $9 million settlement on behalf of a nurse's aide when physicians failed to diagnose timely a blocked artery, resulting in the loss of both of her legs. She also secured $2.5 million for a homemaker permanently disabled after a failed intubation. In the case of a fifteen-month-old daughter of a family practice physician, she obtained $2 million for improper rehydration efforts, which caused a herniated brainstem and the girl's death. Schwartz obtained $5 million for the widow and children of a 28-year-old rabbi who died after jaw surgery when his breathing tube dislodged and attending nurses and doctors failed to properly respond.

Schwartz earned $4 million for the parents of a 13-day-old infant who was electrocuted when EKG leads on an apnea monitor were plugged into a wall outlet by a nurse. She obtained a $1.5 million settlement for a physician who was disfigured when her employer hospital supplied her with an excessive dose of steroids for an acute asthma attack. In a wrongful death action against a moonlighting emergency department physician, she secured an award of $1.7 million for the widow of a 73-year-old man who died of complications from an undiagnosed leaking aneurysm.  

She received her undergraduate degree (B.S.F.S., 1977) from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Schwartz is also a member of the American, Illinois State, and Chicago Bar Associations, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.