PAST SETTLEMENTS AND TRIALS

Motor Vehicles

• Highest verdict in the collar counties for a non-operated mid-back injury (not including Chicago cases)
• Multimillion dollar settlement on behalf of a fifty-six year-old man who was injured by a left-turning school bus
• Wrongful death of a passenger caused by a drunk driver resulting in total policy limits insurance payments of multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars
• Multiple claims on behalf of people injured on snowmobiles due to improper driving and other drunken snowmobile riders

Professional Negligence (Medical and Legal Malpractice)

• Multimillion dollar settlement for a brain damaged adult due to hospital emergency room malpractice
• Multimillion dollar total settlement value for the wrongful death of a handicapped adult in a nursing home
• Wrongful death of a fifty-two-year old father due to a radiologist's failure to properly read a chest x-ray
• Wrongful death trial against a hospital and its nurses and doctors for allowing a stomach ulcer to cause a patient to bleed to death
• Wrongful death of a mother in Rockford, Illinois due to an improper testing procedure
• Wrongful death claim on behalf of a severely handicapped adult who committed suicide at a nursing home

Sexual Assault - Civil Claims for Money Damage

• Multimillion dollar settlement paid by an international entertainment corporation to a young child who was sexually assaulted by a worker at an amusement park
• Personal payment by an adult volunteer who sexually assaulted a young boy

Products Liability

• Multimillion dollar settlement for a chemical products liability claim, which was reported as the highest such settlement in Illinois history
• Claim against garbage truck manufacturer for improperly designing its truck, causing injury to a worker on the truck

Construction

• Multiple cases on behalf of various types of construction workers who have been injured due to falling and defective scaffolding and bracing, including multimillion dollar settlement on behalf of a carpenter who suffered a career-ending knee injury
  
• Multiple hundred thousand dollar settlement on behalf of a plumber who slipped and fell on a worksite due to another subcontractor having left fluid on the floor

Slip and Fall Cases - Premises Liability

• Multi hundred thousand dollar settlement against a national food store company for an elderly woman who slipped and fell in an aisle at the store
  
• Multi hundred thousand dollar settlement in McHenry County, Illinois for a woman who slipped and fell on ice outside of a warehouse

Animal Injuries

• Numerous claims on behalf of children and adults who were bit, attacked, or knocked down by dogs and other animals

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