Brain-damage suit settles for $10.5M
BY MARC KARLINSKY Law Bulletin staff writer Three days into a trial, Loyola University Medical Center agreed to a $10.5 million settle- ment with a man who suffered brain damage as a boy following leg surgery. The agreement Wednesday came after a Cook County judge barred testimony from one of...
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Broken-ankle case settles for $2.95M
BY JOHN FLYNN ROONEY Law Bulletin staff writer A Chicago man who suffered a severely broken ankle in a vehicle accident has received a $2.95 million settlement. On Aug. 22, 2012, Andreas Bakopoulos was driving his Mitsubishi Eclipse near 4350 W. Ohio St. He was on a lunch break from his job...
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Jury awards $2.4M for back injuries from truck crash
BY JENN BALLARD Law Bulletin staff writer A Cook County jury awarded $2.4 million to a man who suffered back injuries when his parked truck was hit by a semitrailer truck. Clanton Pitchford slept at a truck stop in Tuscon, Ariz., in 2006 when a Knight Transportation Inc. truck, traveling...
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Company settles death suit
Joliet asphalt maker to pay widow more than $3 million By Janet Lundquist // Joliet Herald News // jlundquist@stmedianetwork.com A Joliet asphalt manufacturer has agreed to dish out more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the widow of a Channahon man who died at the company's...
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Settlement gives widow $3.15 million
BY MARY KATE MALONE Law Bulletin staff writer An Illinois asphalt manufac- turer agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the widow of an oiler who died while working at a Joliet asphalt plant in 2004, her attorney said. Approved by Will County Circuit Judge Michael J....
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Jail construction worker win settlement
By Brian Stanley // bstanley@stmedianetwork.com CHICAGO - Two construction workers who were injured years ago when a floor collapsed at the Will County jail each will receive a $6 million settlement. On Oct. 9, 2007, Ramiro Zavala and Joshua Comer had just started pouring concrete on the...
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Two lawsuits from deck collapse yield $12 million
BY PAT MILHIZER // Law Bulletin staff writer A deck collapse during a construction project to expand the Will County jail has yielded two equal settlements that total $12 million. Ramiro Zavala and Joshua Comer worked for Lindblad Construction and poured concrete in October 2007. They...
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Train lawsuits end with settlements totaling $36.25M
By Pat Milhizer Law Bulletin staff writer A fiery train derailment that killed a woman and caused the birth and death of a child yielded $36.25 million in two Cook County settlements. Attorneys reached the larger settlement before trial and the other came Tuesday just before jurors issued...
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Award to family in Rockford train derailment: $36.2 million
By Chris Green // rrstar.com CHICAGO – A multimillion-dollar settlement was reached today stemming from the June 19, 2009, train derailment and explosion that claimed the life of a woman and her daughter’s unborn baby. Canadian National Railway will pay a total of $36.2 million to the Jose...
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$5M settlement reached in a drunken-driving lawsuit
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin // In Circuit Court By Maria Kantzavelos Law Bulletin staff writer A lawsuit brought by a Walgreens project manager who suffered injuries in a 2006 traffic accident involving a worker who was drinking on St. Patrick's Day at a bar across the street from his job...
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Carpenter injured in a fall preparing to set trusses
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin // In Circuit Court A carpenter who was injured in a fall while preparing to set trusses at a residential construction site has settled his lawsuit against the project's general contractor and a crane/truss company for nearly $4.9 million, according to the...
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Construction worker fractured vertebrae and injured his rotator cuff
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin // In Circuit Court A construction worker who fractured vertebrae and injured his rotator cuff on the job has received a $3.5 million settle- ment, his attorney said. Kyle Ziminsky was 17 years old in 2004 when he was working as a non-union laborer at a...
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