Representative Cases

Successful Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation Case Results

Settlements of $4 Million to $5 Million

• CONFIDENTIAL settlement for older gentlemen who suffered severe back injuries after he was rear-ended by a cement truck.

Settlements of $1 Million or More

• We are pleased to report that we settled a case for motorcycle accident victim here in Wheaton last month (February 2016) for $1.2 million. A big thanks to the attorneys at Peregrine & Stime, Newman Ritzman & Bruckner for continuing to place their trust in our legal ability and refer us cases. Our client (male 52) was seriously injured in Wheaton when the Defendant driver pulled left in front of him. The driver was insured by AAA who admitted to the liability shortly after our representation began. Through hard work and our detective, we were ability to find out that the Defendant had a $1 million umbrella coverage in addition to her $250k auto liability limits (a fact initially denied by the insurance company). Our injured client had medical bills in excess for $380k and the case settled months after the accident for $1.2 million with no lawsuit filed.
• $1.2 million for loss of eye to high school senior who was a passenger in a car struck by a semi that ran through the intersection. Trucking company and driver paid policy limits.

Settlements Between $500,000 and $1 Million

• CONFIDENTIAL settlement for 24-year-old man hurt in a warehouse with a degloving injury to his right arm.
• CONFIDENTIAL settlement to widow who lost her 80- year-old husband due to food poisoning.
• Settlement of policy limit of one million dollars paid by family doctor when he failed to offer a PSA test to 55-year-old long time male patient. Patient developed cancer, which could have been detected by PSA and treated earlier. Policy paid after we discovered that the doctor had altered his own medical records to make it appear as if he had offered the PSA test for years but patient had declined.
• $675,000 paid to disabled former social worker whose neck surgery was ruined due to an aggressive functional capacity evaluation ordered by her employer’s worker’s compensation carrier.
• $395,000—value of structured settlement paid by dog-owner’s insurance policy when their pet pit-bull mauled arm and face of 12 year old neighbor boy.
• $320,000 paid by Nursing home to 60 year old daughter who lost their grandmother who was over 100 when nursing aide left patient’s bedside while she was in distress.

Workers' Compensation Cases

• $340,000 in final settlement awarded to Union heavy equipment operator injured on job.
• $240,000 paid to rough framing carpenter with fifth grade education and limited command of English.
• $225,000 paid to trim carpenter with 9th grade education.
• $220,000 paid to injured worker who was too close to an industrial spindle which lost its three ton load of pressed steel striking and crushing the side of the worker’s body.
• $117k-187k - range of numerous awards for Com Ed, Federal Express and UPS drivers (most package handlers) who sustained low back injuries on the job.

Commercial Cases

• $2.8 million recovered for homebuilder against manufacturer and seller of defective windows placed in about 400 homes all over Plainfield and Romeoville.