Mark S. Dym

Mark Dym's practice concentrates on catastrophic personal injury claims and complex litigation.  Mr. Dym is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell which is the highest rating for attorneys given by that company.  Mr. Dym has also been selected as a "Super Lawyer" in 2010.  This is an honor that is given to the top five percent of attorneys in Illinois and is the result of a selection process based upon evaluations by Mr. Dym's peers. 

Mr. Dym and his group represent both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of legal settings.  Mr. Dym has recovered millions of dollars for injured persons and their families in claims throughout the country.  His practice involves wrongful death claims, traumatic brain injuries, amputations, quadriplegia, paraplegia, loss of eyesight and hearing, serious disfigurement and other devastating injuries.  Mr. Dym and his firm also defend parties in a multitude of diverse injury, commercial, fiduciary, estate and employment matters. 

Mr. Dym has been involved in a number of high profile cases including the following:

• 15-million-dollar settlement within seven months of the auto crash for a plaintiff who suffered bilateral amputations.

• Collected in excess of 4 million dollars for business damages from a power outage.

• Successfully represented the family of the only Oak Park Fireman to die in the line of duty in a product liability claim.

• Excess of 2-million-dollar settlement for a client seriously injured, as a bystander, by a homemade firework device.  Liability was hotly disputed.  We overcame the general law against social host liability. 

• Numerous recoveries for families who lost loved ones in the Paxton Fire hotel loss.

• 2.3-million-dollar settlement for a client who had suffered a back injury from a relatively minor impact from a car accident.  Defendants claimed that our client's condition was caused by a pre-existing condition, for which he had had previous back surgery.  We proved the accident aggravated our client's condition resulting in additional surgeries.

• 1.5-million-dollar settlement in a drowning case.  The defendants offered nominal monies at the start of the case because hotels without lifeguards are generally not liable for injuries in their pools.  We uncovered evidence of the hotel's negligence.

• 1.25-million-dollar policy-limits recovery against a defendant who was responsible for the death of our client but claimed an epileptic seizure was the cause.

• 1.2-million-dollar policy-limits recovery in a highly-publicized killing of a minor child by an intoxicated driver in the western suburbs.