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In 2012 Mr. Hughes secured an excess insurance coverage settlement for a medical malpractice uterine perforation injury case of$3.5 million dollars in the case of Hutchins v. New Horizons Ob-Gyn Clinic in Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois. The insurance coverage was originally only $2 million dollars but Mr. Hughes forced the insurance company to pay $3.5 million dollars or face an excess jury verdict in Jackson County, Illinois.

In Holmes v. City of Marion, Mr. Hughes filed suit against the City of Marion police department for shooting the innocent hostage during a hostage scenario. The Holmes case in Williamson County, Illinois resulted in a confidential settlement. The Yates v. Legates Emergency Services of Southern Illinois case was a wrongful death medical malpractice case against an emergency room physician and ER company. In Yates, the Williamson County, Illinois jury returned a verdict in November 2013 of$2.439 million dollars in one of the largest wrongful death malpractice verdicts in Williamson County history. The verdict exceeded the insurance coverage of the doctor but the insurance company paid the verdict in full by May 14, 2014. The case of Day v. Franklin Hospital resulted in a medical malpractice verdict record of over $1.51 million dollars in Franklin County Circuit Court, Benton, Illinois involving a partial foot amputation. The Roznowski v. Mt. Vernon Raceway case was a race car accident where a race car vaulted into the spectator stands from the race track killing two persons and injuring others. The Roznowski case ended with a confidential settlement. In the case of Snyder v. Franklin County Sheriff Mr. Hughes settled a wrongful death case arising out of the medical malpractice of a prison nurse caring for a county jail inmate. Mr. Hughes tried a wrongful death case in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois due to the decapitation death of a spectator after an explosion during a replica cannon event. That wrongful death trial resulted in the largest wrongful death verdict in Gallatin County history in Bowles v. New Haven American Legion.

In the 2014 case of Clara and George Nehring v. Southern Illinois Medical Services (MAIC) Mr. Hughes secured a settlement of$ 1.65 million in a case where Mrs. Clara Nehring suffered a perforated esophagus during a Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication surgery at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

Mr. Hughes is a trial attorney who has secured millions and millions of dollars of verdicts and settlements for his clients over his 32 year career. He prides himself on being prepared to promptly try any lawsuit he has filed if the adverse insurance company refuses to compensate his clients. Literally, dozens of attorneys every year refer Mr. Hughes car crash cases; slip and fall serious injury cases; medical malpractice cases; wrongful death cases; etc. for him to file suit and try due to his reputation and aggressive style against insurance companies.

Yong Juan Zhao v. United States was a 2020 Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) medical malpractice case where a baby was negligently delivered causing shoulder dystocia resulting in a permanent flaccid arm. Attorney Thomas Q. Keefe and the Hughes Law Firm secured a judgment result against the United States of $8.3 million dollars upheld on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2023, Mr. Hughes has secured a multi-million-dollar settlement in a Franklin County, Illinois wrongful death truck accident case and numerous other large truck crash settlements along with a near seven figure arbitration award in a pedestrian-car accident case.

On April 26, 2024, $12,208,790.53 verdict in Fayette County, Illinois in the case of Jeremy Dutton v. Foltz Welding Ltd in a case tried by lead counsel Rob Kohen of the Salvi Law Firm with Attorney R. Courtney Hughes and Attorney Ron D. Coffel as co-counsel setting a verdict record in Fayette County, Illinois. Mr. Dutton was rear ended by a truck and suffered disabling neck and other injuries.