Gerald Huston
Partner
312 529 5006 Direct
ghuston@hustonmay.com
Gerald W. Huston began his legal career at Lord, Bissell & Brook, a top-ten Chicago law firm, where he began developing his extensive experience in nursing home and medical negligence, insurance coverage disputes, catastrophic insurance defense, and general tort litigation. In the nursing home realm, Jerry advises and defends long-term care facilities in tort litigation and regulatory action across the country and serves as national nursing home counsel for a large insurer of long-term care facilities. Jerry also has extensive experience representing insurers in coverage disputes, including declaratory judgment actions. Jerry's broad background in tort litigation includes both state and federal matters ranging from catastrophic injury cases, property damage, and contract disputes to more complicated construction litigation, consumer fraud, and class action litigation.
Christopher May
Partner
312 529 5016 Direct
cmay@hustonmay.com
Christopher J. May has extensive litigation experience in a board variety of insurance defense and coverage actions. Christopher specializes in defending healthcare providers, including hospitals, nursing homes, and individual physicians, in medical malpractice actions, and boasts an impressive record of jury trial victories in multiple states. Christopher also counsels hospitals and nursing homes on statutory compliance, risk management, and various other legal issues. A veteran of Lord, Bissell &Brook, Christopher also has extensive experience in a variety of general tort litigation matters, including construction litigation, premises liability, insurance coverage disputes, catastrophic injury and property damage cases.
Jane Stevens
Associate
312 529 5005
jstevens@hustonmay.com
Jane A. Stevens is an associate at Huston & May, LLC, whose practice focuses primarily on the defense of hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other medical care providers. A seasoned litigator, Ms. Stevens brings to the Firm extensive experience in all aspects of medical malpractice defense trial practice, from initial investigation and claims assessment through the discovery process and at trial. Ms. Stevens is especially adept in identifying potential avenues for early case resolution, particularly through targeted dismissal motion practice and development of summary judgment motions, and boasts an enviable record of prevailing on those typically hotly-contested motions. Ms. Stevens also possesses unique skills and savvy in client counseling and witness preparation, both in the pre-claim period and in preparation for deposition, trial, and other formal proceedings.