The Romaker Law Firm

$150,000

Workers' Compensation

Back, right shoulder injury by lifting at work. The client suffered injuries to his back and right shoulder by lifting heavy concrete pieces - Weighing more than 100 lbs. S.G. and his coworkers had to cut out trenches for new pipes in floor of school in Northlake. They cut it out and had to lift the pieces onto a cart to move them. As a result, our client injured his low back and right shoulder lifting a large piece of concrete to put it on the cart.

$250,000

Workers' Compensation

Client sustained a work related injury to her low back and head on April 20, 2015. She slipped on oil during food preparation process landing flat on her back causing low back pain. She was taken to by ambulance to Community First Medical center, who diagnosed M.D. with a low back injury.

$120,000

Premises Liability

This case arises from a fall that took place at the front entrance/exit to the defendant’s building at 15 Spinning Wheel Road in Hinsdale, Illinois. The client sustained a non-displaced fracture of the left fibula and a deranged left knee. The fractured left fibula was casted and healed without complications. Thereafter, the plaintiff underwent arthroscopic surgery in the left knee to correct a medial meniscal tear.

$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.