Biography
Jaclyn Kostich has diverse experience with complex litigation matters. She concentrates her practice on medical and professional malpractice, personal injury, premises liability, product liability, mass tort and other environmental claims and has successfully handled cases on both the plaintiff and defense side.
Jackie's medical and professional malpractice experience includes representing pharmacies, doctors/dentists and oral surgeons, nurses and other health care professionals in a full spectrum of litigation. These cases involve obstetrics, surgical and emergency care, primary care and internal medicine claims, medical specialty claims, hospital and home-health nursing, and nursing home and long-term-care facility issues. Her work also encompasses medical office training and policy issues.
Her toxic tort and environmental practice includes claims relating to exposure to asbestos, diacetyl, benzene, and other toxic chemicals from groundwater contamination and landfills. Jackie's varied experience with other tort claims includes drug/pharmaceutical litigation, auto accidents and product performance and failure issues.
Jackie also served as a Judicial Extern for Honorable Mary L. Mikva of the Cook County Circuit Court in the Chancery Division.
Jackie's medical and professional malpractice experience includes representing pharmacies, doctors/dentists and oral surgeons, nurses and other health care professionals in a full spectrum of litigation. These cases involve obstetrics, surgical and emergency care, primary care and internal medicine claims, medical specialty claims, hospital and home-health nursing, and nursing home and long-term-care facility issues. Her work also encompasses medical office training and policy issues.
Her toxic tort and environmental practice includes claims relating to exposure to asbestos, diacetyl, benzene, and other toxic chemicals from groundwater contamination and landfills. Jackie's varied experience with other tort claims includes drug/pharmaceutical litigation, auto accidents and product performance and failure issues.
Jackie also served as a Judicial Extern for Honorable Mary L. Mikva of the Cook County Circuit Court in the Chancery Division.
Publications and Presentations
- Speaker, Upcoming 2021 DRI Talc Litigation Seminar: Imerys Bankruptcy
Notable Cases
- Diaz-Guillen v. Swanson, United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 15-CV-01101 — obtained summary judgment on behalf of an oral surgeon sued by a prisoner asserting a deliberate indifference Fourteenth Amendment claim in a Section 1983 action.
- Morris v. Main Street Family Pharmacy, Cir. Ct. of Williamson County — successfully resolved multi-plaintiff litigation involving a compounding pharmacy’s manufacturing and distribution of contaminated doses of methylprednisolone acetate, which led to 26 adverse event reports from patients who had been injected with the contaminated product in four states.
Languages
Jackie is fluent in Serbian.
