Current Cases
PLAINTIFF v. THE HANGGE UPPE, INC., CHICAGO ILLINOIS
On May 28, 2005 LS suffered life threatening head injury when she fell down a dangerous unprotected stairwell at the Hang Up Bar at 14 w elm street, Chicago. As a result of her head injury she was in a coma for a period of two months and continues to suffer residuals from the fall.
PLAINTIFF v. METRA AND WALSH CONSTRUCTION
On May 8, 2004 at the Metra Yard at 51st Street near Dan Ryan Expressway where roofers were on the job, taking out concrete panels that were rotting.. Our client was on the roof and he walked in an area that was not marked. The concrete crumbled and he went through it. Our client fell 20ft onto the concrete floor. His hand hit the ground first, then his head, which broke his hand due to the force of the impact causing head injury, spinal injury and loss of the use of his hand.
PLAINTIFF v. CLAYCO CONSTRUCTION
On July 30, 2002, in Aurora, Illinois, our client was working on a construction site and become injured while moving within a trench box. While in the trench box, and using a back hoe, the back hoe was a missing a safety latch and the trench box was not rigged properly so it fell over on our client resulting in significant head injuries.
PLAINTIFF v. AVCO CORP. (LYCOMING ENGINES)
During a flight in summer 2005, our client, a recreational pilot, experienced failure of a part within his plane’s engine that caused him to make a forced landing, crashing into a trailer park. Our client, a well known and successful CEO was found with his eye out of its socket and multiple life threatening injuries. He now has significant disabilities, including traumatic head injuries.
PLAINTIFF v. CLEVELAND SPORT PARACHUTING CENTER
On September 26, 2003 in Garretsville, Ohio, (between Akron and Cleveland,) our client, an experienced sky diver, 52 years of age, made a jump, landed successfully on the ground, one of the other jumpers landed on the runway, a plane lands and is avoiding the one jumper, while avoiding the one jumper, caught our client’s shoe, drags the client, yanks him under the wing rendering him permanently disabled. There was obviously no pilot communication, if there was, it was not adequate.
PLAINTIFF v. ST. ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL AND COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL
On July 21, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois, our client, a mother and wife suffered a failed trial labor due to professional medical negligence by her physicians at St. Anthony's Hospital. The labor failed to progress which went unrecognized by the medical staff at the hospital. The medical staff also failed to timely contact an obstetrician to perform a cesarean section. There was a rupture of the mother's uterus resulting in an extended time when the baby received zero oxygen. As a result, the newborn was profoundly brain damaged and only survived five months before passing away.
