Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Verdict- $1,589,000 that Defendant Contested...
Clarence Roach was a car man working for Union Pacific Railroad at the West Side rail yard in Chicago where commuters’ rail cars are inspected and repaired. Roach was earning about $60,000 per year....
View Article$3.97 Million Jury Verdict for Injured in Truck Unloading Accident
Allen Ginn, the owner of a trucking company, drove his truck to a sawmill to unload the logs he was hauling. When he reached his designated unloading area, the mill employees instructed him to release...
View Article$1 Million Jury Verdict in Illinois T-Bone Crash, Causing Severe Neck Injury
On Nov. 25, 2008, Thomas J. Hagerman was driving westbound on Route 6 in Morris, Ill., when the defendant, Betty Leake, who was attempting to make a left turn onto Lisbon Street, chose not to yield the...
View Article$345,000 Cook County Jury Verdict for Pedestrian Severely Injured When Hit by...
On May 8, 2011, Mason Brandstedter was driving on Route 59 in West Chicago, Ill., around 1:30 a.m. It was then that he discovered what appeared to be a dog, which was lying on the road and had clearly...
View Article$19.8 Million Jury Verdict for Injuries When Gas Company Worker Chose Not to...
Pengxuan Diao rented a converted garage. An employee of Southern California Gas Co. arrived while Diao was sleeping to perform maintenance. The gas company employee opened a gas valve that activated an...
View ArticleJury Verdict for Defendant in Bicycle-Car Collision in Chicago Loop...
On June 21, 2012, Matthew Lyman, 19, was driving his bicycle northbound on by the defendant, Thomas Garcia. Garcia’s car was traveling westbound on Congress Parkway. Matthew sustained a fractured left...
View ArticleBacking Truck Strikes Pedestrian, Resulting in $127,000 Cook County Jury Verdict
Sandra Gibbs hired the defendant Blu-Sky Industries to do work on a septic tank on her property at 30658 S. Ashland Ave. in Beecher, Ill. The Village of Beecher is located in Chicago-area suburbs in...
View ArticleTire Plant Worker Exposed to Asbestos Receives $18.6 Million Jury Verdict Award
Carl Rogers had been working at a tire plant owned by Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., which is a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary. He started working at the plant in 1969 and left employment after...
View Article$141,000 Cook County Jury Verdict When Truck Hauling Boat Backs into Car
On May 23, 2008, the plaintiff in this case, Carla C. Hudson, 43, was stopped at a red light on northbound Walnut Lane at Golf Road in Schaumburg, Ill. The pickup truck driven by the defendant Barry...
View Article$14 Million Settlement Reached for Severe Injuries to Bicyclist Hit by Truck
Anne Sholes, 53, a neurosurgeon, was riding her bicycle in a bicycle lane to work when a Solano County employee operating a box truck, struck her from behind. Dr. Sholes suffered a broken back and a...
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