Howard Trafman and Kendal Freeze-Crace Secure Early Voluntary Dismissal on Wrongful Death Case

A thorough investigation at the outset of an assignment always pays off, and Howard Trafman and Kendal Freeze-Crace certainly demonstrated that truism in a recent wrongful death case in McHenry County, Illinois.

In this case, Plaintiff’s decedent allegedly consumed bad oysters.  Numerous parties were sued in an effort to sort out where the problematic mollusks were eaten and the parties responsible for putting them onto the decedent’s plate.  Trafman and Freeze-Crace demonstrated that the decedent consumed the oysters at a neighboring restaurant, not our client’s establishment, by utilizing credit card statements, photographs, and an affidavit.  Ultimately Plaintiff’s counsel agreed, voluntarily dismissing our client only three months after our first involvement.

This case is certain to wind its way through the courts for many years, so the early litigation win is a huge time and cost savings to our client.  While it is always tricky to secure dismissal from a multiparty action before written discovery, Trafman and Freeze-Crace’s persistent advocacy and airtight research did the trick.