Kate Crouch secured the dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit filed against our client, a contractor who provided hot water systems to a residential co-op on Chicago’s south side. Plaintiff sought compensatory and punitive damages, alleging that the hot water systems provided, were designed in a faulty manner, failed to […]

Steve Becker was awarded summary judgment on behalf of a developer and a general contractor, in the case of Botello v. Lexington Homes, LLC, et al., 2015 L 5620 (Cook County, IL). The plaintiff, an employee of a carpenter subcontractor (ACC, Inc.), was injured while trimming a 3rd-floor window of […]

Howard Trafman: Trial. Ovando v. Vita Food Products. February 2017. 

Bill Lindsay: We limited a jury verdict to under $500,000 in an admitted negligence case where the plaintiff, a school girl, suffered severe facial disfigurement and other injuries when struck as she crossed in front of a school bus with lights flashing. The plaintiff was represented by one of the […]

Howard Trafman obtained a not liable defense verdict in a case where Plaintiff, a stage-hand, was working at an event (President Barack Obama’s birthday) at the Aragon Ballroom and claimed to sustain a torn hip labrum which required surgery and a herniated disc which required surgery.  Plaintiff claimed she was […]