Personal Injury Verdicts/Settlements

Personal Injury Verdicts/Settlements

v. A Company
Injury: 3rd Degree burns on lower body
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: While operating a forklift under the Anode Furnace, the furnace failed to sound an alarm and poured approximately 25,000 pounds of molten copper onto the forklift burning the plaintiff seriously.

v. A Company
Injury: Neck, Jaw and Brain
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle north bound when the defendant's vehicle crossed over the driving line and hit the plaintiff head on.

v. A Company
Injury: Burns to lower part of body
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: A student with a severe case of spina bifida was put on a merry-go-round, which was too hot and received 2nd and 3rd degree burns. The child was unable to feel the temperature of the metal which caused the injuries.

v. A Company
Injury: Leg Amputation
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was struck at work by a forklift without an audible and/or visible warning device, which crushed his right leg and resulted in his leg being amputated.

v. A Concrete Company
Injury: Head Injuries
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was hit in the head with a component of a concrete pumper truck and was knocked into steel forms.

v. A Power Company
Injury: Back
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: While installing underground cable, the cable snapped as a result of co-employees pulling too hard. The cable struck the plaintiff and threw him off a truck, injuring multiple vertebrae in his back.

v. A Department Store
Injury: Broken Foot
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was shopping at a sidewalk sale and walked around the rack, stepped on the handicap curb, and fell to the pavement.

v. A Company
Injury: Back and Neck
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The client was rear-ended by the defendant at an intersection.

v. A Company
Injury: Neck and Back
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: A freightliner going 70 mph struck the plaintiff from behind while driving.

v. An Individual
Injury: Death
Amount: Confidential Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was shot and killed by the defendant.

v. C.J. Mahan Construction Company
Injury: Death
Amount: $2,000,000
Facts: While doing demolition work on a bridge, the bridge collapsed due to the employer's negligence, killing two people.

v. Home Depot
Injury: Neck and Low Back
Amount: $1,000,000 Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was injured from falling merchandise while shopping.

v. Anna Henry Nursing Home
Injury: Face and Head
Amount: $1,000,000 Settlement
Facts: An Alzheimer's patient fell on a sidewalk after wandering outside the nursing home. The plaintiff wandered through a door where the alarm was not working and a courtyard gate that did not have an exterior deadbolt.

v. Anderson Hospital
Injury: Death
Amount: $900,000 Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff went to the emergency room at the hospital and the unstable angina was improperly diagnosed which caused his death.

v. Freeman United Coal
Injury: Below the knee amputation
Amount: $800,000 Settlement
Facts: A 12 year old boy stepped into coal gob that had been placed there in the 1950's in Franklin County, Illinois and the land the coal gob was on had changed ownership several different times prior to the accident. The coal gob burned the boy's foot so severely that it had to be amputated. Five different law firms had this case before The Lakin Law Firm who was able to figure it out and make the case.

v. GJ Leasing
Injury: Back & Shoulder
Amount: $600,000 Settlement
Facts: While working as a Longshoreman offloading rolled steel from a barge, some of the steel rolls shifted, hitting the ladder Plaintiff was climbing, sending Plaintiff through the air approximately 15 to 30 feet causing Plaintiff to become severely injured.

v. Jeffrey Theiler
Injury: Neck
Amount: $507,000 Settlement
Facts: The defendant was negligent when his vehicle collided with the rear of plaintiff’s vehicle as the plaintiff was stopped giving directions to a truck driver. The plaintiff required two disks to be removed and replaced with cadaver bone.

v. The Horse Barn
Injury: Death
Amount: $485,000
Facts: The plaintiffs were driving home at night; they rounded a corner and hit a dark colored horse. Both persons were killed instantly.

v. USA
Injury: Broken Leg
Amount: $482,210 Settlement
Facts: While riding on a motorcycle, the plaintiff was hit by a postal vehicle.

v. Diestelhorst
Injury: Broken Hands and Nerve Damage
Amount: $393,000 Settlement
Facts: While driving a custom built motorcycle with a friend, the defendant tried passing through the intersection while the plaintiff was turning left. The defendant hit the plaintiff, causing severe leg injuries.

v. Earth Grain Company
Injury: Broken Ankle, Facial Cuts and Broken Shoulder
Amount: $360,000 Settlement
Facts: The plaintiff was on her way to work when the driver of an Earth Grain truck turned into her path and hit her.

v. Mount Trucking
Injury: Herniated Disc
Amount: $287,500 Settlement
Facts: The tractor-trailer unit unexpectedly moved from the left lane to the right land, impacting with the automobile, causing a herniated disc to the rear seat passenger.

v. Schneider Electric
Injury: Head, Neck and Back
Amount: $250,000 Settlement
Facts: A high lift truck operator that worked for Schneider Electric struck a union laborer in the head.

v. Jansco Steel
Injury: Rotator Cuff
Amount: $220,000 Settlement
Facts: Tripped over extension cord while carrying 10 x 10 plate.