Elizabeth Kaveny

Elizabeth Kaveny

Managing Partner, Senior Trial Attorney

Elizabeth A. Kaveny is a Chicago trial attorney who has achieved great success in plaintiff’s personal injury and medical malpractice for the past 
25 years. She is well-known and respected in the legal community for her hard work and the outstanding recoveries she obtains for her clients, both in settlements and jury verdicts.

Elizabeth was a principal in the law firms of Propes & Kaveny and Burke, Wise, Morrissey & Kaveny. Taking the best from great mentors and trial attorneys that came before her, Elizabeth established the law firm of Kaveny + Kroll in 2019, where she and her partner, Jeffrey J. Kroll, continue their high-quality representation of victims of medical negligence, motor vehicle and trucking accidents, workplace injuries, and general personal injury.

Elizabeth is proud to have been recognized as one of the 10 Best Personal Injury Attorneys in Illinois in 2020 and one of the top 5 Women Attorneys in her field for each of the past 5 years. Elizabeth has been accepted into one of the country’s most prestigious national organizations, the American 
College of Trial Lawyers, and last year became a barrister with the International Society of Barristers. In 2019, Elizabeth was named to the MOVE OVER
Task Force by John J. Cullerton, Senate President for the State of Illinois. In 2021, the Illinois State Bar Association appointed Elizabeth to serve as a member of the ISBA Tort Law Section Council.

Elizabeth is an often-requested teacher and lecturer on trial advocacy, having taught at Northwestern University’s School of Law, Loyola University School of Law, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and lectured for numerous bar associations and organizations in their continuing legal education programs throughout the country.

Elizabeth is now serving as Chicago’s Ambassador to The Patient Safety Movement. The Patient Safety Movement is an organization of hospitals, physicians, and other professionals who share the mission of focusing on eliminating preventable harm and death in healthcare across the world by creating a sense of urgency and unifying humanity.

Academics

  • J.D., Case Western Reserve University Law School. 1992
  • B.S., Lehigh University. 1988

Bar Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit
    Illinois Bar. 1992

Contact

  • +1 312 761 KKTL(5585)
  • elizabeth@kavenykroll.com

MEET ELIZABETH

Elizabeth has recovered more than $100 million for her clients. Just some of her most recent accomplishments include:

$32 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$32 Million Settlement for an 8 year old who lost all 4 limbs due to an infection

$16 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$16 Million Settlement for medical malpractice – wrongful death of a husband and father of three due to undiagnosed brain aneurysm in emergency department 2 days earlier.

$14 MILLION VERDICT

$ 14 Million Verdict against an insurance company who refused to pay for its doctor’s negligence at a child’s birth (record verdict)

$11 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$11 Million Settlement for a boy who suffered injuries at birth due to the delay in his delivery

$11 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$11 Million Settlement for a man who suffered amputations following septic shock

$10 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$10 Million Settlement for a state trooper severely burned following a trucking accident

$10 MILLION SETTLEMENT

for the undiagnosed rupture of a brain malformation in a young husband/father

$9 MILLION VERDICT

$9 Million Verdict against hospital and doctors for death of a mother and her unborn child due to pneumonia

$7.5 MILLION VERDICT

against an emergency department for failing to properly treat a patient’s asthma attack

$7 MILLION SETTLEMENT

for a woman who suffered an undiagnosed brain infection

$6.2 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$6.2 million verdict for death of husband and father due to failure to supervise in a residential home.

$6 MILLION VERDICT

$6 Million Verdict for a boy who suffered a brachial plexus injury at birth

$5.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT

for a young man injured during a police chase

$5 MILLION SETTLEMENT

$5 Million Settlement for the death of a mother of three daughters left waiting in an emergency room while suffering a brain aneurysm

$5 MILLION VERDICT

for the death of a husband from a pulmonary embolism

$4 MILLION VERDICT

$4 Million Verdict against school district for sex abuse of two minor children by gym teacher off school grounds.

$4 MILLION VERDICT

$ 4 Million Verdict against a hospital for failing to keep a psychiatric patient safe from an inpatient suicide attempt (record verdict)

AWARDS & HONORS

DISTINGUISHED MEMBER (INVITATION ONLY)

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF TRIAL LAWYERS

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS

INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS

Curriculum Vitae

“Justice need not be delayed in days of COVID-19” Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (April 6, 2020)

Recent Media

Attorney Elizabeth Kaveny of Kaveny + Kroll Trial Lawyers in Chicago, Illinois joins the podcast to discuss a case involving a non-diagnosis which lead to a 5.25 million dollar result.

Personal Injury Attorney Elizabeth Kaveny, partner at Kaveny and Kroll joins Let’s Get Legal to talk about a recent mental health/suicide trial where they obtained a $5 million verdict. Plus, the opioid epidemic and more.

Listen to the full radio segment: https://wgnradio.com/lets-get-legal/personal-injury-attorney-elizabeth-kaveny-talks-medical-malpractice-and-mental-health-cases/

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