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Morgan’s Story
Morgan Vanden Heuvel is a personal injury attorney who represents clients in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases nationwide. Her practice includes Legionnaires’ disease, foodborne illness, motor vehicle accidents, bicycle crashes, dog bite injuries, and other cases involving serious injuries and wrongful death.
Many of Morgan’s cases require extensive investigation to determine how an illness, injury, or death occurred and who should be held responsible. In building these cases, Morgan works closely with epidemiologists, medical experts, state health departments, and opposing counsel in multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Morgan understands that her clients are often dealing with much more than a legal case. She considers the full impact an injury or death has on their lives and keeps them informed throughout the legal process. Her approach combines clear communication with compassionate guidance, helping clients understand what to expect as their case moves forward.
After an injury, clients are looking for someone to help them reduce their stress, not add to it. The legal process can be long, confusing, and heavily burdensome. My goal is to carry that burden for them and provide them some sense of relief.
Morgan’s experience also includes sexual assault cases and mass tort and product liability cases involving:
- Stryker, DePuy, Wright, and Zimmer artificial hip and knee devices
- LivaNova heater-cooler devices
- Bair Hugger warming devices
- Camp Lejeune water contamination
- Depo-Provera injectable birth control and meningioma claims
Morgan has been named to the 2026 edition of Super Lawyers.
Results: Jury Verdicts and Settlements
- $27,000,000.00 on behalf of a family whose children were sickened with E. coli.
- $12,150,000.00 on behalf on an 8-year old girl who was sickened with E. coli.
- $8,750,000.00 on behalf of a 13-year old girl who was sickened with E. coli.
- $6,450,000.00 On behalf of of three people sickened in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a resort hotel
- $6,000,000.00 on behalf of six people impacted by a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak linked to a hotel hot tub.
- $4,900,000.00 on behalf of a 4-year old boy who was sickened with E. coli.
- $4,500,000.00 on behalf of an 18-year old man who was rendered a paraplegic after diving into a residential pool.
- $4,500,000.00 for our client, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result of a crash between a drunk driver and a semi trailer.
- $4,500,000.00 on behalf of a 23-year old man who was sickened with Salmonella.
- $3,900,000.00 on behalf of the parents of children who were sickened with E. coli.
- $3,700,000.00 on behalf of a 26-year old woman who was sickened with E. coli.
- $3,500,000.00 for a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury when his vehicle was hit by a distracted commercial truck driver.
- $3,300,000.00 on behalf of a 10-year old boy who was sickened with E. coli.
- $3,300,000.00 on behalf of a 1-year old boy who was sickened with E. coli.
- $3,000,000.00 for a wrongful death claim brought on behalf of two adult men whose parents were killed in a Kentucky home explosion caused by a natural gas leak
- $3,000,000.00 on behalf of the family of a woman who died as a result of Legionnaires’ Disease contracted while staying at a Las Vegas hotel.
- $2,350,000.00 for our client who contracted Legionnaires’ disease at a hotel and was hospitalized for over a month.
- $1,325,000.00 on behalf of a 59-year old man who was sickened with Legionnaires’ disease after using a hotel hot tub in California.
- $1,750,000.00 for the family of a 52-year old man who died of Legionnaires’ disease linked to a hotel.
- $1,750,000.00 to a woman sickened with Legionnaires’ disease after being exposed in a hotel hot tub.
- $1,425,000.00 Our client suffered E. coli O157:H7 poisoning and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) from consuming adulterated salad product.
- $1,325,000.00 on behalf of a 59-year old man who was sickened with Legionnaires’ disease after using a hotel hot tub in California.
- $1,050,000.00 on behalf of a 15-year old girl who was sickened with E. coli.
- $1,000,000.00 on behalf of an 11-year old girl who was burned in an apartment fire.
Personal and Family Life
Morgan is from a small town in Wisconsin. Her appreciation for the importance of a strong advocate comes in part from helping a family member through a serious illness and seeing firsthand how difficult it can be to navigate an unfamiliar system.
One of my favorite sayings is, ‘As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.’ If I can make a substantial impact in even one person’s life, then that’s worth it to me.
Morgan’s commitment to service extends beyond her work at Pritzker Hageman. She has provided legal support to incarcerated individuals, prepared pro bono wills, advocated for tenants, and served as a court monitor. She has also worked with Oxfam Italia in Florence, Italy, supporting the organizations’ work to address poverty and injustice. Outside the office, Morgan enjoys reading, watching true crime documentaries, and traveling.
Education and Honors
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law, J.D.
- Mitchell Hamline Law Review, Editor
- CALI Award, Legal Analysis, Research, and Communication
- University of Minnesota, B.A., Sociology of Law, Criminology and Deviance
- Selected to the 2026 Minnesota Super Lawyers Rising Stars list
Publications
Morgan authored “Dobbsmacked by the Dobbs Decision: The Need for More Privacy Protection for Personal Health Information,” examining protections for personal health information.
Contact Attorney Morgan Vanden Heuvel
Jeanne Malush, Morgan’s Paralegal, can be contacted at: [email protected] // 888-377-8900