Premises Liability

$40 Million Jury Verdict

40 Million Jury Verdict for a worker paralyzed when he fell six floors through an open elevator shaft.

$20 Million Jury Verdict

$20 Million Jury Verdict for a professional avocado picker electrocuted by hidden power lines while working. Injuries caused amputation of both arms and a portion of one leg. This is the largest judgment against Southern California Edison in a personal injury suit.

$75 Million Settlement

$75 Million Settlement obtained on behalf of the victims in a wrongful death and personal injury suit when scaffolding fell from the John Hancock building in Chicago. The Firm’s wrongful death client’s amount represented 14.1% of the total $75 Million settlement amount in the case involving these death claims and eleven injury claims.

$13.75 Million Settlement

$13.75 Million Settlement for a 6 year-old boy who was injured in the locker room of a community fitness center when a row of lockers, weighing approximately 400 pounds, fell on him.

$9.6 Million Settlement

$9.6 Million Settlement from a building management company for the estate of an attorney who was among five people killed in an October 2003 high-rise office building fire in Chicago. The plaintiffs sued the building management company for improperly evacuating occupants of the building, failing to inform firefighters of the evacuation plan, and ignoring security console signals that the evacuees were trapped.