Case Results

Facts: Our client was a 24-year-old patron at a tavern owned by Ginx, Inc. Another patron, known only as “Mike,” became intoxicated, argumentative and violent at the tavern as the evening progressed. “Mike” then got into a fight with another patron of the bar and was asked to leave. “Mike” later returned to the bar within minutes and was patted down by the tavern’s bouncer. The bouncer felt what he felt was a gun in “Mike’s” pants and then asked him to leave the tavern, again. Within seconds of Mike leaving the tavern, shots were fired into the tavern through a boarded-up side door. Our client, who was not involved in any altercation that evening, was shot in the back while playing pool near the area of the boarded-up side door.

Client’s Injuries: Permanent paraplegia with paralysis from the nipple-line down, spastic bladder and bowel, broken ribs and a collapsed lung

Facts: An 8-year-old child and a 2-year-old child were occupants in their relative’s vehicle. The vehicle was traveling eastbound on Interstate 80, during a snowstorm in Bureau County, Illinois, when the driver lost control of her vehicle, crossed the center median and came to a rest in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 whereupon it was then struck by another vehicle.

Client’s Injuries: The older child was deceased at the scene. The younger child suffered a right occipital skull fracture, extending down to the condyle; severe traumatic brain injury; posttraumatic hydrocephalus; left temporal intracranial hemorrhage and contusion; subdural hygroma (interval development); ruptured spleen; bleeding in the left chest cavity; left proximal femur fracture; bronchial trauma; respiratory failure; and left liver lobe laceration.

The next of kin of the deceased child received $450,000.00. The younger child, who was hospitalized for nearly two years, received the remaining $1,650,000.00.

Case Results: Legal Malpractice, Products Liability and Worker’s Compensation

Facts: Our client, an employee at a Chicago area food processing company, suffered catastrophic injuries while cleaning a machine he was using at the plant.

Injuries: Traumatic amputation of our client’s right hand involving complete separation of all bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and arteries below the fingers and thumb but above the wrist with multiple attempted but unsuccessful reattachment surgeries and resulting development of right shoulder stiffness, impingement syndrome and adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder syndrome), surgically repaired with a right shoulder arthroscopy and selective capsular release but with permanent restrictions for movement and use of the shoulder.

Our clients initially retained a personal injury law firm located in the Chicago area to handle their workers compensation, personal injury and loss of consortium claims, shortly after the injury. The prior law firm then filed a case against two component part manufacturers under products liability and additional theories, having filed that case within days before the statute of limitations would have expired. After they litigated the case, a breakdown in the attorney-client relationship took place between that law firm and our clients. At that point, our clients retained Mark L. Karno & Associates, LLC to take over prosecution of their case. Mark L. Karno & Associates, LLC thereafter negotiated the waiver of repayment of the $665,946.05 worker’s compensation lien, but both component part manufacturer defendants sued by the initial Chicago law firm were dismissed with prejudice due to their only being component part manufacturers. They failed to name the assembler whom we alleged was the manufacturer. That party could have been easily identified had the prior law firm filed the case early enough and conducted very basic discovery. Mark L. Karno & Associates, LLC then sued the prior lawyers for their legal malpractice in failing to investigate the clients’ claims; their failure to name proper defendants and their failure to file the case in a timely manner. Mark L. Karno & Associates, LLC obtained a settlement of $525,000.00 allocated $425,000.00 for our client’s personal injury claim and $100,000.00 for his wife’s loss of consortium claim within days before the trial was set to begin. This was “fresh money” on top of the value of the waived $665,946.05 Workers Compensation lien.

Facts: Our client was a passenger in an SUV that was stopped for a red light when it was rear-ended by a van while exiting Midway Airport.

Client’s Injuries: Disk herniation at C4-5, C5-6 and C6-7 requiring an anterior cervical discectomy, decompression and fusion with plating on two occasions. After the second operative procedure, our client continued to have pain issues that were not resolving, resulting in a diagnosis of permanent nerve damage at C-6 and complex regional pain syndrome.

Facts: The Defendant was operating a tractor trailer rig and made an improper right hand turn from northbound Cicero AV to Northeast bound Southwest Highway striking our client’s vehicle that was in the right turn lane making a right turn.

Client Injuries: Type I Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of the right lower extremity requiring extensive therapy and a spinal cord stimulator being implanted.

Facts: Our client was traveling northbound in the right lane on a public highway when the defendant who was also traveling northbound made a right-hand turn from the left lane in an attempt to turn onto the eastbound intersecting street.

Client’s Injuries: Right knee injury which developed into Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS).

Facts: Our client was a passenger in a vehicle that was proceeding westbound on Thorndale at its intersection with Mittel Boulevard in Woodridge, Illinois, when a truck being operated by defendant was traveling eastbound on Thorndale Avenue, made a left turn to go northbound on Mittel Boulevard and collided with the vehicle in which our client was riding.

Client’s Injuries: Our client sustained herniated disks in her lumbar spine at levels L3-4 and L4-5 with associated central canal narrowing and stenosis at L3,4 and L4,5 and radiculopathy secondary to the lumbar neural foraminal narrowing that required two decompression surgeries, which involved the permanent placement of spacers, stabilization rods and screws.

Facts: Our client was shot with a handgun inside her own apartment by her brother who had entered the building through the front door of the apartment complex that was equipped with a lock that was not functioning properly. We successfully argued that the landlord had liability for the shooting due to the fact that the local ordinance required entryway doors to be equipped with a working locking mechanism that required a key to enter the premises.

Client’s Injuries: Gunshot wound that entered the oral cavity and shattered the mandible and went through the neck and then lodged into her right scapula causing a fracture. Also sustained injuries to her right jugular vein and right carotid artery.

Facts: In the early morning, our client was awakened to a sound of what she described as rainfall which seemed to be coming from the basement of her duplex apartment. As she got up, she began walking on the hardwood floors toward the stairs leading to the basement to check on her daughter was asleep downstairs. However, before reaching the stairs, she was caused to slip and fall on water that had emanated from the kitchen due to the kitchen sink pipes that had burst. Our client had previously notified the property manager multiple times of the issue with the kitchen sink pipes.

Client’s Injuries: Cervical disc herniation requiring a multi-level anterior cervical discectomy and spinal fusion.

Facts: Our client was operating a CTA Flex bus which was stopped at a bus stop when her vehicle was struck from behind by a Tractor Trailer.

Injuries: Our client received extensive injuries to her neck and back including a cervical fusion 7 the doctors recommended she undergo a micro discectomy to her lower back.

Facts: Our client, a citizen of the Czech Republic, was painting the exterior stairway at 625½ West Arlington, Chicago, Illinois, when he encountered a garbage can on the winder portion of the staircase at which time he lost his balance and fell over the railing of the stairway, falling two stories to the ground. It was alleged that there were various defects in the staircase.

Client’s Injuries: Rib fractures, a burst dislocation of T10/T11 and T11/T12 with paraplegia, which required a fusion of T8 to L1 with a rib graft

Facts: A power strip manufactured by Gemini Industries, Inc., for Philips-Magnavox failed, causing a fire at a condominium in Homewood, Illinois. The product failure consisted of either an MOV and/or thermal fuse failure and/or inappropriate installation of the MOV and/or thermal fuse when the power strip was manufactured. The fire burned through the walls of the condominium unit and entered the adjoining condominium.

Client’s Injuries: Wrongful death of 67-year-old caused by burns and carbon monoxide poisoning. Deceased was a retired train engineer.

Facts: Our client was on the back of a man lift truck assisting employees of the Village of Orland Park while they were hanging Christmas tree lights along La Grange Road near 159th Street when a Village of Orland Park police squad car operated by Officer Jason Ford rear-ended an SUV stopped behind the man lift truck, causing the SUV to hit the man lift truck, thereby knocking the client over. Then, our client was driving southbound on Harlem Avenue near 126th Street when he was rear-ended.

Client’s Injuries: Herniated disk at L5-S1 requiring an L-5 S-1 laminectomy/discectomy; Posterior spinal fusion at L-5-S-1; Cage insertion bilateral posterior lumbar L5-S1, 9mm; and left right iliac crest bone graft with a permanent lifting restriction of 25 pounds.

Facts: Our client was a passenger in an automobile that was stopped for a red traffic light at North Avenue and Ashland Avenue when it was rear-ended by a CTA bus.

Client’s Injuries: Aggravation of pre-existing lumbar disk disease and lumbar stenosis that had been operated upon one year prior to this collision, resulting in a revision surgery consisting of a decompressive laminectomy from L2-S1 with pedicle screw instrumentation and posterolateral fusion. The client also suffered from a postoperative infection.

Facts: Our client slipped and fell on the remnants of the base of a concrete pillar on the defendant’s property that previously held up a canopy over the sidewalk.

Client’s Injuries: Right ankle sprain and ligament tear, complex regional pain syndrome of the right lower extremity, type 1, requiring initial treatment of right lumbar sympathetic nerve blocks, a spinal cord implant surgery which lead to a staph infection.

Facts: While on active duty as a Chicago police officer, our client was operating an SUV that was struck by another vehicle that disobeyed a stop sign.

Client’s Injuries: Headaches and hearing problems; left shoulder contusion resulting in a left avulsion scapular fracture, a shoulder labral tear derangement, traumatic acromioclavicular shoulder joint osteoarthritis, a shoulder strain and suspraspianatus tendinopathy causing severe should pain, tenderness and swelling; a left forearm contusion resulting with 8×4 cm abrasion and a radial fracture causing a large opened wound, an elbow fracture; a chest wall contusion causing left rib fractures sharp left side torso pain, shortness of breath, tenderness, stiffness, swelling and dizziness; a foot contusion and a 5th metatarsal base fracture on the right foot resulting in sharp right foot pain radiating into the toe, swelling and the need to wear a cast, a cam walker boot, cane, and use of crutches.

Facts: Our client was employed as a car salesman in Libertyville, IL. A fellow employee had requested that our client accompany him in order to pick up a car at another dealership and drive it back to their employer’s dealership when the vehicle was rear ended by the Defendant.

Client’s Injuries: Neck and back pain; cervical and lumbar strain; contusion of the lower back; injury affecting the posterior neck and C-spine including myofascial pain syndrome; radiculopathy; chronic pain; anxiety; depression; cognitive deficits; history of brain injury; difficulty ambulating; and, balance impairment.

Facts: Our client was a customer at a gasoline service station when he was shot in the back by an unknown assailant and robbed, while the vehicle he was a passenger in was car-jacked by a group of criminals.

Client’s Injuries: Complete spinal cord injury to T8 resulting in paraplegia; a right 8th rib fracture and numerous complications including phlebitis, fecal impaction, sacral decubitus ulcer, multiple decubitus wounds, back area wounds, bilateral heel wounds, right ischial pressure and post-sacral pressure sore requiring operations for excisional preparation for muscle flap closure of right ischium and excisional preparation for fasciocutaneous closure of the sacrum.

Facts: Our client was traveling westbound on an Interstate highway early in the morning and on his way to work. The defendant was operating a Semi-tractor trailer rig southbound and was stopped in the median blocking the westbound lanes of traffic as he was attempting to turn eastbound onto the highway. Our client did not see the defendant’s tractor trailer until the last moment as this was a rural highway and it was dark outside and ultimately collided into the trailer.

Client’s Injuries: Contusion of the colon, abdominal wall bruising and laceration of the small intestine requiring exploratory laparotomy of the abdomen for trauma with temporary abdominal packing, two abdominal bowel resections, an application of abdominal wound vac, an abdominal ileocecectomy, and an eyelid laceration repair.

Facts: Our client was a pedestrian crossing Ashland Avenue on Division Street when she was struck by a Doordash delivery driver.

Client’s Injuries: Fractures to the Superior Lateral left Orbital Rim with extension to the sinus region; depressed fracture of the inferior orbital wall; fractures of the anterior and posterior wall of the left maxillary sinus; fracture through the nasal arch with additional fractures in the remaining septum; and fractures in the left periorbital, left pre-maxillary and nasal bridge. Our client was also diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, and serious facial scarring.

Facts: Our client was traveling southbound on I-57, when two tires came off the defendant’s trailer of his tractor trailer rig. One of the tires went through our client’s windshield and struck him in the face. Our client suffered a broken nose, had multiple lacerations on his face and lost four front teeth; an MRI revealed herniated discs at C4-5 and C6-7. No operation was indicated. This case settled for $325,000.00.

Facts: Our client was a pedestrian crossing at the intersection of George Street and Pulaski Road when the defendant who was operating a truck made a sharp left turn when its trailer jumped over the sidewalk, knocking our client to the ground. The rear wheels of the trailer then ran over our client’s right leg causing a degloving of his right knee and thigh, a tibial fracture, and a fibular fracture. The defendants contested the liability in this case. The case settled for $305,000.00.

Client’s Injuries: De-gloving injury of the right knee and thigh, tibial fracture and a fibular fracture.

Facts: Our client was touring the inside of a country club looking at various pieces of equipment to potentially purchase. As she was descending a flight of carpeted stairs on the premises, she tripped over a piece of carpet that was torn and fell down four stairs. The defense argued the defective condition of the stairs was an open and obvious condition and therefore, they were not liable for our client’s injuries. We successfully argued against the defense’s position and attained a settlement for our client in the amount of $300,000.00.

Client’s Injuries: Nondisplaced sacral fracture and subsequent sacroiliac joint pain.

Facts: Our client was a passenger in an automobile being driven northbound on Route 31 north of Gracy Road, in McHenry County, Illinois, when it was struck by a truck being driven southbound on Route 31 that had crossed the center line.

Client’s Injuries: Multiple fractures

Facts: Our client was traveling northbound on Lake Shore Drive on his Yamaha motorcycle when he was rear-ended by the defendant’s vehicle causing him to fly off the motorcycle and sustain injuries. The defendant attempted to claim that our client merged directly in front of him at which point he was unable to stop in time. Our client denied ever merging into the defendant’s lane of traffic.

Client’s Injuries: Acute comminuted displaced fracture of the distal shaft of the right tibia requiring debridement and open reduction surgery.

Facts: Our client was a pedestrian crossing the intersection of Howard Street and North Ridge Road when she was struck by the defendant’s vehicle that was making a right hand turn onto Ridge Road.

Client’s Injuries: Fracture of the right humerus; right shoulder pain and stiffness; right ankle sprain; edema to the right lower extremity including the right ankle and foot; hematoma to the right leg; bruising on the right foot and toes; three part humeral fracture; and avascular necrosis of the right humeral head.

Facts: At the intersection of 34th Street and 61st Court in Cicero, Illinois. The plaintiff, Alicia Padilla, was traveling eastbound on 34th Street and the defendant Mussa Muhammed was traveling northbound on 61st Court at the time of the occurrence. It was alleged that the Mussa Muhammad failed to yield the right of way to Alicia Padilla.

Client’s Injuries: Ruptured intervertebral disc at L4-L5 requiring a lumbar laminectomy.

Facts: Our client was driving down a road when the defendant, suddenly and without warning, made a left hand turn, striking our client and his vehicle.

Client’s Injuries: Fractured hip which required surgery.

Facts: Our client was a passenger in a vehicle traveling on Lake Shore Drive when he was struck head on by the defendant’s motor vehicle.

Client’s Injuries: Cervical spine strain; sprain and lumbos-sacral spine strain/sprain; right shoulder strain/sprain with rotators cuff injury; low back pain syndrome.

Case: Medical Malpractice, Will County, Illinois

Facts: Our client’s 80-year-old family member was admitted to Will County Hospital for hernia surgery. Two days later she became lethargic. Exploratory surgery revealed a laceration to the bowel resulting in infection leading to her death two weeks later.

Injuries: Our client’s family member sustained multi-organ failure septicemia as a result of leakage of bowel material into the abdomen caused by the surgical laceration to bowel.

Facts: Our client was jogging in a crosswalk in Arlington Heights when she was struck by a motor vehicle. Our client suffered a bulging disc which required a L5-S1 discectomy. Our client was awarded $224,857.82 at a binding arbitration.

Case Name: Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission Case No. 09 WC 48370

Facts: Our client was working as a roofer and was injured at work while pulling siding.

Client’s Injuries: Significant back and leg pain; herniations which required surgery; disc generation at both L4-5 and L5-S1 with a small to moderate herniated disc at L4-5 associated with some lateral recess stenosis bilaterally.

Facts: Our client tripped over a garden hose that was left out behind a gated entrance to her house. She suffered a distal radius left fracture, which required two surgeries. The defendant argued that hose was an open and obvious condition. The case settled for $205,000.00.

Case Name: Robert Ruyle v. State Farm Insurance Company American Arbitration Association Case No.: 51 2000 01398 04

Facts: A retired high school shop teacher was driving an automobile that was stopped for a red light at Lincoln and Veterans’ Parkway in Bloomington, Illinois, when it was rear-ended by a car operated by another driver. Our client incurred $70,531 in medical bills and incurred an additional $129,000 in damages for contractors he had to hire to finish a home remodeling project that he was engaged in at the time of the collision. Shelter Mutual Insurance Company had previously paid its entire $50,000 policy limits.

Client’s Injuries: Broad based disk protrusions at C4-C5, C5-C6, C6-C7 and C7-T1 with bilateral neural stenosis and encroachment upon the thecal sac; spurring at C3-C4 to the right side with compression to the right neural foramen with facet joint arthropathy, degeneration/desiccation of the L2-L3, L4-L5 and L4-S1 intervertebral disks, 3mm right paracentral herniation of the L5-S1 disk, hypostasis of 2nd and 3rd finger of left hand, and chronic C8 radiculopathy in the right arm. As a result of the injuries that he sustained in this occurrence, he underwent an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-5, C5-6 and C6-7.

Facts: Our client was a patron at the defendant’s restaurant when she slipped and fell on a wet floor near the salad bar. The floor had recently been mopped by a restaurant employee.

Client’s Injuries: Mild concussion causing headaches, a C3-C4 disc herniation, C4-C5 disc bulge, cervical sprain, disc protrusions at the levels of C4 and C7 with associated cervical radiculopathy, requiring epidural injections; a non-displaced occult type fracture of the distal tibia with a bone contusion of the distal tibia and the talus requiring her to utilize a Cam walker and a cane.

Facts: Our client was exiting her apartment complex and walking on the sidewalk toward the parking lot of her building. However, just before reaching the parking lot, our client was caused to slip and fall on an unnatural accumulation of ice on the sidewalk due to improper placement/maintenance of a drainage gutter.

Client’s Injuries: Displaced left distal radius fracture requiring open reduction internal fixation surgery.

Case Name: Dorina Pybas v. Johne E. Harris and Overhead Garage Door, Inc. Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois Case No.: 99 L 14623

Facts: Dorina Pybas was traveling Eastbound on Virginia Street at Crystal Court, in Crystal Lake, Illinois, when John Harris, who was traveling westbound on Virginia Street, made a sudden left turn in front of Dorina Pybas, causing her to lose control of her vehicle in an attempt to avoid hitting the Harris vehicle. Thereafter, she struck a vehicle being operated by a Robert Bartel, who had been traveling immediately behind Mr. Harris.

Client’s Injuries: Torn annulus resulting in herniated disks at C5/C6 and C6/C7; cervical sprain/strain; multiple blunt trauma; radiculopathy; cervical bulging disk at C5/C6; cervical arthritis; cervicalgia; myofascial component, fibromyalgia type, secondary to whiplash injury; occipital nerve pain, bilaterally contributing to headaches; and paravertebritis at T2. The client underwent a spinal discectomy and fusion.

Case Name: Richard LaBarbera v. Grane Leasing d/b/a Drivers & Dock Services Workers’ Compensation Commission Case Number: 05 WC 44945

Facts: Petitioner was injured in a rollover truck accident.

Client’s Injuries: Herniated/ruptured disks in the cervical and lumbar region with a prescription for lumbar fusion surgery; lacerations to left arm. Noteworthy: Respondent denied causal connection between accident and injuries relying upon respondent’s evaluating physician and an alleged gap in treatment. After a hearing pursuant to section 19(b) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, the respondent was ordered to pay several thousands of dollars in owed time-off pay and medical expenses, and was specifically ordered to authorize surgery prescribed by the petitioner’s orthopedic surgeon. In addition, respondent was also ordered to pay over $36,000 in penalties because of its unreasonableness in handling the claim. The respondent and petitioner decided to settle the case shortly after the award.

Case: Nursing Home Neglect, Cook County, Illinois

Facts: Our client’s 68-year-old family member was admitted Nursing Home in Cook County. The next day family members at the defendant facility and discovered that their mother was in severe pain and her right leg was rotated 180 degrees. It appeared she had been given a new mattress but the same bed overnight.

Injuries: The resident was taken to nearby Hospital where she was diagnosed with a displaced subtrochanteric spiral fracture of the proximal right femoral shaft which required an open reduction internal fixation using cephallomedullary nail and LISS Plate. She was hospitalized for approximately one month until she passed away.

Case: Nursing Home Neglect-Cook County, Illinois

Facts: Our client fell while a resident of a South Suburban nursing home. The nursing home had assessed our client as a high fall risk when he was admitted to the facility.

Injuries: Non-displaced fracture of our client’s left femur, which required two separate surgeries to repair, the first involving placement of 3 surgical screws and the second to remove the screws and perform a partial left hip replacement.

Facts: Our client, an interstate tractor trailer driver, was traveling northbound on an Interstate highway when another tractor trailer driver swerved suddenly to avoid an animal then overcorrected, causing his tractor trailer to briefly leave the road and then jackknife, spilling its cargo of large pipes onto the interstate. Our client was unable to avoid the large pipes that fell into the roadway and was stuck by a pipe which caused his vehicle to leave the roadway and come to a stop in the median.

Client’s Injuries: Contusion of lower extremities, mineralized intra-articular loose body in the lateral suprapatellar pouch and tearing of the lateral meniscus with lateral meniscal body extrusion.

Facts: Our client was lawfully on the defendant’s premises walking down the interior stairs to the basement of the apartment building when she fell down the stairs after slipping on a foreign substance. We successfully argued that the property owner was negligent in the maintenance of their property by allowing a foreign substance to remain on the surface of the stairwell, thereby causing a slippery and hazardous condition; by failing to maintain a firmly fastened handrail in good condition; failure to warn persons walking down the stairway of the dangerous condition existing on the premises; and failed to properly and sufficiently illuminate the stairway, causing our client to suffer severe and permanent injuries.

Client’s Injuries: Sprain to the medial collateral ligament in the knee, partial tear of the rotator cuff and the AC joint in the left shoulder.

Facts: At the age of 92, our client got up out of bed and had an episode of vertigo causing her to fall and sustain a non-displaced intertrochanteric fracture of her left hip. We successfully argued that if a toileting schedule and bed alarm protocol had been in place then this predictable and preventable injury would not have happened. Further, it was inappropriate to rely upon an elderly, debilitated resident to remember to call for assistance when she needed to get out of bed.

Injuries: Intertrochanteric fracture of left hip.

Facts: Our client slipped and fell on a liquid substance left sitting on the highly polished floors at the defendant’s restaurant.

Client’s Injuries: Left patella contusion with posttraumatic chondromalacia patella, mild lateral femoral condyle and lateral tibial plateau contusion.

Facts: The plaintiff, age 3, was a patron of South Sea Seafood Restaurant, which was located at 2168 S. Archer Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, when the defendant, an exchange student from Seoul, South Korea, spun a lazy Susan tray containing a pitcher of hot tea that subsequently fell off the lazy Susan tray causing boiling hot water to spill onto the child.

Client’s Injuries: Scald burn to left extremity and right body, right elbow, right thigh, and right calf

Facts: Our client was walking on public property when she slipped and fell due to the defendant property owner’s negligence in the maintenance of their property by piling up shoveled snow adjacent to the exit sidewalk. We successfully argued that the property owner should not have piled the snow up so near the exit to the premises, which in turn allowed it to thaw and refreeze creating an icing condition on the sidewalk, which caused the slip and fall which resulted in our client’s injuries.

Client’s Injuries: Lumbosacral strain, C5-C6 disc bulge, foraminal stenosis, nerve root irritation.

Facts: Our client was traveling southbound on Clinton Street in downtown Chicago and was approaching an intersection with a green light. The Defendant who was traveling westbound on Tilden and who had a stop sign, pulled out directly in front of our client causing our client to strike the Defendant’s vehicle.

Client’s Injuries: Fracture of the right distal radius which required surgical repair.

Facts: Our client was on his way to work when he came onto the sidewalk in front of the office building where he worked where he slipped and fell on ice formed by runoff from the building.

Client’s Injuries: Fracture of the left femoral neck (hip fracture).

Case: Nursing Home Neglect, Kankakee County, Illinois

Facts: Our client was a resident at a Kankakee County nursing home where she developed a severe pressure ulcer within weeks of her admission. Upon her admission to the nursing home, she had been assessed as being at risk for development of pressure ulcers.

Client’s Injuries: Fever, sepsis and a severe, unstageable sacral pressure ulcer requiring hospitalization including administration of intravenous fluids and antibiotics and specialized wound care which continued after her discharge from the hospital.

Case Name: Circuit Court of Grundy County Case No. 11 L 39

Facts: Our client was a resident at the defendant’s nursing home facility when she was carelessly transported from her wheelchair to her bed causing her to hit the bed with great force and dislocating her recently operated upon left hip.

Client’s Injuries: Dislocated hip requiring surgery and development of a left heel ulcer.

Facts: Our client tripped and fell due to the defendant’s negligence in the maintenance of its property. The defendant failed to adequately secure the carpeting on the stairway leading down from the second floor; allowing the stairway to exist with a lack of uniform sized treads and risers; not having sufficient handrails and having inadequate lighting, resulting in our client’s injuries.

Client’s Injuries: Bimalleolar fracture of the right ankle which led to an open reduction internal fixation operation.

Facts: Our client was a resident at a nursing home facility where she fell in the dining room. Prior to her fall, the defendant had knowledge that our client was at risk for falling.

Client’s Injuries: Slightly oblique supracondylar fracture of the distal femur with slight impaction and anterior angulation at the fracture sight.

110,000 ($100,000 policy limits from one driver and $10,000 from another driver)

Facts: Our client was traveling southbound on a public highway while the first Defendant was traveling northbound. Suddenly and without warning, a second Defendant was traveling westbound and had a collision with the first Defendant which in turn, collided into the vehicle being operated by our client.

Client’s Injuries: Sprains and strains of shoulder and upper arm, superior glenoid labrum lesion.

Facts: Our client was a patron at the defendant’s restaurant when a server spilled a pot of boiling water onto our client.

Client’s Injuries: Severe burns to right shoulder, right arm, chest, and face; diagnosed with full thickness skin loss due to 3rd degree burns to the forehead, cheek, upper arm, and shoulder.

Case Name: Circuit Court of Cook County Case No. 09 L 12508

Facts: Our client was a resident at the defendant’s nursing home facility where she fell to the ground due to defendant’s negligence. Prior to her fall, client was admitted with a history of falls with periods of confusion and deemed a high fall risk patient.

Client’s Injuries: Intracranial hemorrhage with subdural bleeding.

Facts: Our client was in an elevator at 5838 N. Sheridan Rd. when the elevator dropped and fell multiple floors until it fell into the elevator pit.

Case Name: Circuit Court of Cook County Case No. 08 L 1299

Facts: Our client was a resident at a nursing home facility where she fell to the ground due to the defendant’s negligence. Prior to her fall, the nursing home facility had deemed our client a fall risk and she was still nonetheless left unattended.

Client’s Injuries: Transverse subtrochanteric fracture of the left femur and left hip intertrochanteric fracture, requiring emergency surgery.

Facts: The defendant was visiting our client’s home and while our client was escorting the defendant to her car as she was leaving the premises, the defendant ran into and pushed our client to the ground because the defendant overreacted to seeing a stray animal in the street.

Client’s Injuries: Suffered a comminuted fracture in the distal end or metaphysic of the radius with fractured lines extending to the distal articular cortical margin; open reduction internal fixation surgery to repair her fractured wrist.

Case Name: Circuit Court of Cook County Case No. 08 L 014421

Facts: Our client was riding his bicycle northbound on Clark Street in the bicycle lane when the defendant, a taxicab driver, struck client.

Client’s Injuries: A cervical strain resulting in aggravation of his degenerative disc bulging with associated neural foraminal narrowing at C3-C4 on the right and C4-C5 on the left; a left shoulder impingement and sprain (supraspinatus tendon) resulting in poor elevation and rotational motion and aggravation of his acromioclavicular joint; lumbar strain/sprain resulting in acute pain and reduction of range of motion; medical meniscus tear in the right knee resulting in severe pain and a limp gait.