Auto & Truck Accident Success Stories

$5.8 Million Settlement for Accident Injuries, Loss of Consortium

The driver of the defendant company’s truck was distracted, lost control, swerved into oncoming traffic, and struck our client’s ComEd van head-on. Our client sustained multiple severe internal injuries, nerve…

$5.5 Million Settlement for Accident Technology Could Prevent

We represented a client who was walking home and trying to cross the street when he was struck by a truck. Its driver could not see him over the extended…

$5.25 Million Settlement for Traumatic Injury in Motor Vehicle Accident

In the early morning, our client was proceeding through a Chicago intersection on the green light when his vehicle was broadsided by a car driven by defendant O’Donnell, who was…

$3.9 Million Settlement for Boy’s Brain Injury

An 8-year-old boy was hit by a car at an intersection controlled by a crossing guard who was employed by the Village of Arlington Heights. The child suffered a traumatic…

$3.2 Million Record Jury Verdict for Mother of Four Killed by School Van

A 69-year-old mother of four was walking northbound on a residential street in Wilmette, Illinois, when she was struck from the rear and killed by a van owned by Wilmette…

$3 Million Truck Accident Injury Settlement

A semi tractor-trailer struck and injured a female pedestrian. $3 Million B. v. Liebovich Bros., Inc.

$2.5 Million Jury Verdict in Cab Driver’s Death

A limousine hit and killed a cab driver whose vehicle was disabled on the Kennedy Expressway. $2.5 Million S. v. Limos R US et al.

$2 Million Settlement for Girl Killed by Truck

A 13-year-old girl was hit and killed by a truck when walking her bicycle across the street. $2 Million K. v. The Village of LaGrange

$1.6 Million Jury Verdict for Mother’s Death Due to Trucking Negligence

We brought suit in Cook County Court on behalf of the estate and surviving spouse of a 47-year-old mother of three sons. She was killed on her way to work…

$1.4 Million Settlement Secured by Commitment to Going to Trial

Our client was driving from O’Hare Airport to Indiana to care for his ailing father and was stopped in traffic on southbound Interstate 294 when the defendant, traveling too fast…

$1.25 Million Jury Verdict for Fatal Truck Accident

A 64-year-old mother of five died from massive head trauma when a truck hit the car in which she was a passenger. $1.25 Million D. v. Caldwell Freightliners

$1.25 Million Settlement in Boy’s Car Accident Death

A teenage boy was a passenger in a vehicle heading to a hockey tournament. He died as a result of his injuries when the car left the road and hit…

$1.2 Million Jury Verdict for Boy Killed by Truck

An 18-year-old boy was fatally injured when a truck driver entered an intersection on a green light and turned left in front of the boy’s car. $1.2 Million S. v.…

$1.1 Million Settlement for Woman Injured in Collision

A Chicago woman was paid $1.1 million by a glass company whose truck rear-ended her van. $1.1 Million K. v. Safelite

$1 Million Settlement in Park District Bike Injury

A 50-year-old man was riding his bike on a Park District bike path when he collided with a young boy who was also riding his bike. The man was paralyzed…

$1 Million Settlement for Accident Caused by Truck

A college freshman suffered permanent nerve damage to her right arm, a lacerated liver, and multiple fractures when a truck changed into her lane and she lost control. $1 Million…

$1 Million Punitive Damage Settlement for Accident Caused by Asleep Truck Driver

$1 Million Punitive Damage Settlement for Accident Caused by Sleeping Truck Driver Our 85-year old client was hit head on by a HydroChem Industrial Services truck that crossed the center…

$915,000 Settlement for Auto Accident Injuries

A college student suffered multiple facial injuries when the car in which he was a passenger crashed into cones and he was thrown through the windshield. $915,000 K. v. Plote…