Jenner & Block Chair Wins $11M Verdict for Prisoner with Cancer

Jenner & Block Chair Craig Martin is known for defending some of America’s largest corporations against big-time claims, but he recently scored a court victory for a very different client, an Illinois prisoner stricken with terminal cancer who sued the prison’s healthcare provider.

Martin led a pro bono trial team from his firm that secured a $11 million verdict on behalf of the inmate, who said the health system was more worried about saving money than diagnosing and treating his illness.

A Springfield, Illinois jury found Wexford Health Sources Inc. was deliberately indifferent to William Kent Dean’s civil rights and ...