Recent Illinois Personal Injury Cases Handled By Law Offices of Michael D. Mannis

$310,000 Our client was involved in a relatively minor rear end collision auto accident, and after her failure to improve, and with worsening pain, was diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD.) Defense countered that she was not hurt as badly as she claimed and initially offered $50,000 in full settlement. Through the testimony of her treating doctors, we established that the pain was terrible, and won a substantial settlement on her behalf.

$685,000 Our client was a construction worker, a painter at a downtown highrise, who fell into an improperly secured hole on his way out of the building, sustaining a knee injury and a herniated disk in his lower back. Settlement was reached as the jury was being selected for trial.

$105,000 (policy limit) Client sustained a knee injury in an auto collision, but the driver of the other car had no insurance. We fought with our client’s own insurance company for two years before the case went to arbitration. The insurance company tried to blame the knee injury and resulting surgery on a fall that occurred a week after the auto accident. The company was soundly defeated at the arbitration trial.

$750,000 Client, a twelve year old boy, was shot in the abdomen by an off duty policy officer, working as a security guard for the Chicago Park District. The Park District claimed that the boy was unruly, and had somehow reached for the officer’s firearm. This was proven to be untrue, and the case settled shortly before the scheduled jury trial.

$1,000,000 (policy limit) Client, a truck driver, sustained a serious closed head injury with loss of memory and function, when his truck plunged 35 feet off the highway due to a failure of brakes and tires on his truck cab. Defense claimed that driver fell asleep at the wheel, but was sanctioned by the Judge for concealing evidence and hiding documents. Case settled after dozens of depositions showed evidence of truck deficiencies.

$20,000; $25,000; $137,000; $85,000; $40,000; $35,000; too many to list individually: Cases won at both trial, arbitration and settlement after denial by insurance company that they owed even a penny on the claim. Many insurance companies “just hope you’ll go away” if they refuse to pay. We don’t “just go away.” Not every single case is a winner, but there are many, many more winners than the insurance companies would have you believe.

$225,000 Settlement on medical malpractice claim for an infant who suffered scarring damage to the back of his hand as a result of an IV inserted improperly by the hospital nursing staff. The IV solution caused an “infusion burn” that left the child with a scar about the size of a ping pong ball, though no disruption of function to the hand.