Personal Injury Case Results

Wrongful Death of 43 Year Old Fork Lift Driver: Wife and Children To Receive $5,000,000

The personal injury attorneys at Lipkin & Apter were contacted by the widow of a man who had died in a work-related occurrence. IH, a 43-year-old man born in Mexico, came to the US seeking a better life. After a few years working at McDonald's, IH went to a day labor service and was contracted out as a forklift driver to a large food processing company in suburban Chicago. While IH was inside a trailer, a truck driver attached a tractor to it and pulled away from the dock, causing him to fall from the open back of the trailer, to his death. After multiple on-site investigations, viewing surveillance video from inside/outside the dock, reviewing records of the medical examiner, local police and OSHA, we filed a wrongful death suit against 3 defendants. The defendants requested that the wrongful death case goes to mediation, which took 9 hours. After the mediation, the defendants offered, and IH's widow accepted, $5,000,000 to settle the wrongful death case.
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Cyclist Awarded $100,000 Settlement 20 Months After Serious Bicycle Injury

MC, a 58 yr old bicyclist slammed into a car in Lincoln Park in Chicago in the early evening, and was thrown over the windshield onto his left side.  MC was taken by ambulance to Northwestern Hospital where he was treated in the emergency room and released. 

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Combined $1,000,000+ Workers’ Compensation and Personal injury Settlement to State Worker

A State of Illinois was hit by a semi tractor trailer suffering serious injury and surgery from which he remained off work for 6 months. Lipkin & Apter secured workers' compensation total temporary disability payment and ALSO negotiated a personal injury settlement resulting in a total settlement of over $1,000,000.
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Retiree Slips and Falls on Icy Driveway, Fractures Hip - Collects $265,000 Without Lawsuit

A 73 year old retiree from Chicago, Illinois' northern suburbs slipped and fell on ice while taking out the garbage; learn more about how we helped him receive compensation.
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Truck Driver Slips, Injuring Shoulder - Gains $95,000 Settlement

The Chicago personal injury attorneys at Lipkin & Apter understand that sometimes a mixture of patience and perseverance are necessary to get the best possible settlement.
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Injured Deliveryman Awarded $290,000 When Store Owner Ignores Defects

Chicago personal injury attorneys Lipkin & Apter help settle a case where a delivery man slips and falls due to a store's negligence, but is denied payment by the store's insurance.
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