The Romaker Law Firm

$3M

Wrongful Death

This case is about an adult that placed an 8-years old uncommunicative child in a tub of scalding hot water, causing injuries that resulted in the child’s death. On March 25, 2015 defendant, U., was assigned by her employer to provide in-home care services to A., an eight-year old child. A. could not talk or communicate verbally because of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, a genetic disorder, from which he suffered since birth. U. was in our client’s home and ran hot water into the bathtub in order to give the child a bath. U. placed the child in the bathtub and turned her attention to other matters while A. sat in the tub of scalding hot water. When U. returned her attention to the child, she saw the bath water was burning A. and pulled him out of the tub. A. had severe burns that resulted in his death on April 20, 2015.

$2M

Personal Injury

Inadequate security blamed for nightclub patron’s eye loss. On the night of Sept. 8, 2012, our client was a customer at club/restaurant when a fight broke out between two female customers inside the club sometime after 2:30 am. Our client contended two bouncers stood by during the fight and did nothing, causing the fight to continue for several minutes and escalate. Meanwhile, another customer sitting at the bar, who had refused to give up his glass when the fight started, subsequently hurled the glass toward the crowd. The glass struck the right side of our client’s face and shattered. Our client suffered lacerations over his right eyelids and right eye - cutting the eye in half, rupturing the eye globe, and expelling the internal contents. As a result, he underwent enucleation to remove the eye and now wears an ocular prosthesis.

$475,000

Workplace Accident

On January 21, 2014 at about 10:00 a.m., our client F.B. was operating a lavatory pick-up truck for his employer, on the ramp near gate G18 of Terminal 3 in the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. F.B. was assigned to service aircraft that arrived on Concourse G from Gates G2 to G20. F.B. was driving in a southerly direction on the ramp, when he stopped his vehicle to check whether there was an aircraft at gate G20 that he had to service. As he was stopped, another worker, who was operating a tug pulling one baggage cart turned in a northbound direction toward F.B.’s stopped vehicle. The ramp was wet and slippery with snow and ice and glycol, a de-icing agent used by American Eagle to remove ice from its aircraft. As Roland turned and proceeded in a northerly direction, the baggage cart he was towing swung toward F.B.’s truck and crashed into the lower part of his truck just behind the driver’s door. The impact threw F.B.’s left shoulder and head into the driver’s door and window, then back toward the passenger side of the truck and finally back into the back rest of his seat. As a result, our client sustained a cerebral concussion, and injuries to the left shoulder and lower back.

$450,000

Truck Accident

This matter arises from a motor vehicle collision that took place on January 18, 2012 at or about 11:30 a.m. in Chicago, Illinois. Our client J.L. was driving a 2008 Hino Conventional flatbed tow truck southbound on Interstate 94 near Milwaukee Avenue when he came to a complete stop due to backed up traffic in front of his vehicle. The defendant was driving a 2001 Mack Ch Series semi-tractor trailer. He was on his way to Pontiac, Illinois with a load of refuse that he was going to deliver to the Livingston Landfill when he entered southbound I-94 at Division Street and proceeded to merge into the far right lane of traffic without slowing down. Although the traffic in the lane immediately to the left of the lane from which the defendant was merging into I-94 was at a standstill ahead of his semi-tractor trailer, he was travelling at 30 mph. When he entered the right lane of traffic and started to slow down he was 50 to 60 feet away from J.L.’s vehicle and travelling too fast to be able to bring his truck to a complete stop before colliding with our client’s vehicle. As a result, the defendants’ semi-tractor trailer rear ended J.L.’s tow truck at or about 30 mph. The force of the impact violently pushed J.L.’s tow truck forward into the rear of the box truck in front of him which was also stopped in traffic. As a result of the collision, J.L. suffered severe injuries to the lumbar spine and developed left leg radiculopathy which later required a lumbar laminectomy and subsequent surgery to clear an infection that developed in the surgical wound.

$435,000

Construction Negligence

This case arises from a fall off scaffolding that was assembled in order to install thin brick on an exterior wall. The plaintiff sustained bi-lateral patellar fractures requiring open reductions and internal fixations. He also sustained a transverse fracture of C-1 and a compression fracture of T-3 requiring that he be fitted with a halo brace and vest.

$350,000

Workers' Compensation

Lumbar spine injury by lifting at work. There were two 50 gallon barrels, which were filled half way with copper lugs. Each barrel weighed approximately around 300- 400 lb. The owner wanted to lift a barrel to empty out another one. Thus, our client went to lift the barrel instead, with another employee. When they went to lift the barrel from the bottom, Our client felt pressure on his back. The next day the client was in a lot of pain, when trying to stand up he was unable to because of the pain and began walking around hunched over.