Chicago, IL
Brain injury Lawyer at Chicago, IL
Practice Areas: Brain Injury, Personal Injury ... +7 more
OUTCOME: Settled for $2,000,000
Personal injury. Fall resulted in numerous fractures, including first rib fracture, a spinal cord injury and a mild traumatic brain injury. The injuries required sedation which led to ICU neuropathy ... .
OUTCOME: Settled for $1,950,000
Personal injury. Traumatic brain injury. Issues with insurance coverage.
OUTCOME: Settled for $1,250,000 fresh with full WC lien waiver.
Stone Mason injured on job site.
OUTCOME: Settled for $1,000,000 fresh with $400,000 WC lien waiver
Ironworker suffers left shoulder injury with three shoulder surgeries. Returned to medium heavy duty work.
OUTCOME: We prevailed.
Client wrongly charged with a simple assault. A couple times a year I'll do a pro bono trial for someone wrongly charged with a crime. After the government's two witnesses testified and were cross ex ... amined the government rested and we made a motion for a directed finding of not guilty as a matter of law. The Court granted our motion.
OUTCOME: Jury verdict for $200,000
Client ran into the side of a tow truck in an intersection. Suffered subdural hematoma and required evacuation. Client had prior felony conviction and prior injuries to same part of the body. Client ... did not testify.
OUTCOME: Case settled against primary defendants for well in excess of seven figures.
Worker installing lumbar to be bolted to a foundation tripped over imbedded anchor bolt and fell about ten feet into foundation. He injured his cervical spine and shoulder.
OUTCOME: Supreme Court reversed the trial court and ignored the issue involving the effect of the adoption of the restatement.
I wrote the amicus curiae brief for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association arguing that the verdict should be upheld and specifically that the adoption of section 363 of the restatement of torts (2nd) ... abolished the natural accumulation rule.
OUTCOME: We won in the trial and appellate court.
Michael Carter was honored to argue the case before the Appellate Court and was very happy the Court upheld the verdict that Michael Wierzbicki had won. The case involved the City of Chicago's con ... struction of an unsafe wheelchair ramp in front of a retirement complex. The ramp would have been better suited for use in the X games than by senior citizens. Unfortunately, Lavelle had to use the ramp and she, quite expectedly fell, severely injuring herself. The City of Chicago used its usual defense. This defense consisted of arguing that they didn't construct the ramp, they didn't know who did and they never had a complaint about the ramp. None of these were believable. A City employee testified he was in charge of keeping all complaints about sidewalks and ramps. He testified there was never a complaint about the ramp. Michael Wierzbicki pointed out that there wasn't even a complaint listed at the time of trial, some years after the city was served with a formal complaint filed in the court. The City must have wanted the jurors to believe there was some entity or person out there who just decided to install a curb ramp in front of the senior citizen home. After the Appellate victory the City tore out the dangerous ramp and replaced it with a safe one.
OUTCOME: We prevailed in the Appellate Court.
The Appellate Court reversed the trial court's dismissal of the plaintiff's case. The attorney handling the trial matter failed to obtain a Judge's signature or stamp on an Order allowing the filing o ... f the proposed amended complaint prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations. I drafted and argued the appeal and the Appellate Court reinstated the case finding, correctly, that the plaintiff's counsel had done all he could do and could not be held responsible for getting the judge's signature on the Order before the statute of limitations ran. .
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