Bob Clifford is the founder of Clifford Law Offices, which concentrates its practice in helping victims of personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters. Bob regularly handles complex damage cases and routinely receives multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements. One of Bob’s most notable cases is the $29.6 million verdict for Rachel Barton, an internationally acclaimed violinist who was run over by a Metra train. In 2014, Bob was the lead negotiator in the $1.2 billion dollar settlement of numerous 9/11 property damage claims following the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York. In March of 2015, Bob Clifford was lead counsel in a trial against Yellow Cab that resulted in a $25.9 million verdict on behalf of a lawyer who was injured in the back seat when the van crashed into a concrete barrier.
Bob Clifford is also an advocate for the consumer and has filed several class and mass tort actions holding companies accountable for their alleged defective products and fraudulent business practices. These include Volkswagen in the highly publicized “clean” diesel engine scandal, along with Johnson and Johnson, whose talcum powder products are implicated as potential causes of cervical cancer.
Most recently, Bob and other attorneys have joined to represent numerous hospitals across the country in their fight against the manufacturers of opioid drugs. Bob currently serves as co-lead counsel in the defective Pella windows class action matter, as well as a Civil RICO class action against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. The State Farm matter recently settled for $250 million.
