Case Results
We've Won Numerous Million & Multi-Million Dollar Cases For Our Clients
Case Results
We've Won Numerous Million & Multi-Million Dollar Cases For Our Clients
William S. Wojcik, Ltd. Case Results
$6.95 Million Dollar Class Action Lawsuit
Health insurer alleged to improperly resolve its liens for medical payments, which resulted from third party automobile accidents.
$3.775 MILLION Dollar Medical Malpractice Settlement
For multiple female plaintiffs whose ob/gyn doctor allegedly performed unnecessary biopsies on them in his office.
$3.4 MILLION Dollar Auto & Trucking Accident Jury Verdict
$3.4 million-dollar jury verdict for female auto passenger who suffered a cardiac tamponade when struck by alleged drunk driver who crossed center line of traffic. Plaintiff returned to full-time work 3-1/2 months after accident. The jury's verdict included $3.25 million dollars in compensatory damages, $50,000 to plaintiff's husband (who did not appear at trial) for loss of consortium, and $100,000 in punitive damages.
$2.1 MILLION Dollar Personal Injury Settlement
$2,100,000.00 million settlement for a 34 year old Lemont pipefitter who was injured when he tripped and fell on stairs at a newly opened commercial office building in Western Springs received $2.1 million in a settlement approved by a Cook County judge. Steven Brocken suffered an ankle sprain which required surgery and developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in his left foot and ankle according to his attorney, William S. Wojcik of Oak Lawn. The fall was unwitnessed. Mr. Brocken alleged that his fall was caused by a high stair riser in a rear stairwell at the building. The settlement ended a lawsuit that had been filed in 2006 against the building's owner, 800 Hillgrove LLC., its general contractor, Everett Builders and several sub-contractors.
$1,500,000.00 settlement to 56-year-old male
$1,500,000.00 settlement to 56-year-old male who alleged a neck injury when rear ended in low speed collision in Chicago, IL. Defendant disputed causation, nature and extent of plaintiff’s injuries. - James S.
$1.2 MILLION Dollar Medical MAlpractice SETTLEMENT
$1.2 million settlement on behalf of newborn baby. Baby was infected perinatally with Hepatitis B. Hospital and doctor allegedly failed to administer Hepatitis B vaccine and Hepatitis B Immune Globulin at birth or during hospital stay, resulting in a chronic form of Hepatitis infection.
$1 MILLION Dollar Construction & Personal
Injury SETTLEMENT
$1,000,000.00 settlement for laborer who was pinned under lattice boom crane, which collapsed while he was dismantling. Plaintiff suffered multiple fractures.
$950,000 Auto & Car Accident Settlement
42 year old woman injured in 3 car accident near 40th and Western in Chicago, IL. Defendants disputed liability, and the nature and extent of plaintiff's injuries.
$710,000 PERSONAL INJURY - MOTOR VEHICLE SETTLEMENT
$710,000 settlement to sisters F-13 and F-14 who were traveling in a van owned and operated by deft transportation company on October 30, 2012. Near the intersection of Joliet and LaGrange (Countryside), the driver allegedly collided into two vehicles then rear-ended a stopped garbage truck. The 13-year old suffered a fractured femur (ORIF required) and the 14-year old suffered a pelvic rami fracture ($78,828 medical expenses total for both pltf). Confidential insurer paid $345,000 to F-13 and $365,00 to F-14.
$515,000 Auto & Car Accident SETTLEMENT
Deft Durley, waived on by stopped drivers in two of three lanes of traffic on southbound Cicero, made left turn onto westbound 78th St. Deft Talvera, driving a Custom Staffing Inc. (CSI) club wagon van (15-seats), switched to the open lane to bypass traffic and swerved onto 78th St. when he saw Durley, and broadsided pltfs' vehicle as they waited at a stop sign. F-51 sustained C6-C7 herniations with fusion ($53,000 medl., $26,000 LT as computer tech for IRS) and M-5I had two broken ribs ($7,000 medl. expense). Pltf brought willful and wanton entrustment count against CSI based on Talvera's poor driving record and alleged illegal alien status. Joint settlement paid $40,000 by Affirmative for Durley and $475,000 by Progressive for CSI.
$500,000 Trucking Accident Settlement
Male truck driver, 65, injured in Arkansas when he fell from the back of a semi-trailer.
$450,000.00 Workers Compensation Settlement
Paid to 49 year old tradesman who suffered a shoulder injury while engaged in shouring old roof supports with steel beams.
$375,000 Trailer Accident SETTLEMENT
62- year old male was injured while unloading a pallet from a trailer, when the trailer began to move forward causing him to fall.
$300,000 Animal Injury & Personal INjury SETTLEMENT
$300,000.00 settlement for female age 40 who was riding a horse on a forest preserve bridle path when defendant's two unleashed Rottweiler dogs allegedly attacked plaintiff's horse, which bucked, causing plaintiff to fall. Plaintiff suffered approximately two to three-inch facial scar and some dental injuries.
$245,000 Construction Accident SETTLEMENT
Female slipped on stairs on day of ice storm causing a bimalleolar fracture of her right ankle.
$210,000 Trucking Accident SETTLEMENT
$210,000 settlement plaintiff, female, 20, was driving her 2001 Pontiac Surefire eastbound on 159th Street on her way to attend college classes when she was struck from behind by defendant's cement truck. Plaintiff suffered whiplash syndrome and chronic headaches.
$200,000 MEdical MAlpractice SETTLEMENT
Medical malpractice - cataract patient given wrong lens during cataract surgery but still has 20/20 corrected vision.
$175,000 Tripping Accident Settlement
For women who tripped over an exposed tip of a pallet jack in the produce department of a Jewel-Osco Store.
$3.37 Million Dollar Trucking Accident Settlement
Deft tractor-trailer driver Gary Sucku made a left turn from northbound Archer into the Dolphin Cartage truckyard near Knox. Deft Jason Kondys, driving a Pontiac 70 mph in rainy conditions, struck the rear tandem wheels of Sucku's trailer, causing F-16 backseat passenger to sustain torn descending aorta requiring a Hernashield graft, epidural hematoma, closed head injury causing ongoing headaches, and traumatic Bell's Palsy which has resolved ($235,000 medl. expense). Pltf is currently seeking her GED and plans to attend college. Confidential insurers paid $3,350,000 for Sucku and $20,000 policy limit for Kondys.
$1.5 MILLION Dollar Medical Malpractice SETTLEMENT
$1,500,000.00 settlement with laboratory in suit brought by female plaintiffs. Alleged a novel theory that led to recovery, namely, that the laboratory breached its ethical duty to inform women of lab's concern that their physician was performing unnecessary surgeries on them, and that the specimens sent to the lab did not correlate to the body parts their doctor allegedly removed. This case was the first case in the U.S.A. to assert that theory.
$1.495 MILLION Dollar Nursing Home & MEdical
Malpractice SETTLEMENT
Elderly patient entered hospital for knee replacement. Surgical errors caused vascular injury and required nursing home stay which resulted in negligent wound care.
$1.13 MILLION Dollar Dram Shop Settlement
Dram Shop $1.13 Settlement for 42 year old female who was injured by an alleged intoxicated person (AIP). Plaintiff alleged that she was struck by female AIP’s motor vehicle after she threatened her outside of the front doors of well-known Merrionette Park tavern complex. Plaintiff alleged that in addition to contributing to the intoxication of the AIP, tavern failed to take appropriate security measures to protect its patron from foreseeable harm arising from AIP’s verbal threats directed toward Plaintiff.
$950,000 Construction & Personal Injury SETTLEMENT
Roofer fell through skylight opening in building under construction. 31 year old plaintiff suffered a herniated disc requiring surgery with instrumentation.
$800,000 Construction & Personal Injury Verdict
$800,000 verdict for "high burner" demolition worker who fell from a ladder after sparks from his cutting touch fell into an uncovered manhole that contained sewer gas and caused an explosion. Occurred at Amoco Oil Company's Whiting, Indiana, refinery. Plaintiff suffered fractures of his right knee.
$700,000 Shuttle BUS ACCIDENT SETTLEMENT
Female, 49 injured when shuttle bus she was being transported in, stuck a pedestrian. Plaintiff walked off bus, but later felt back pain and consulted an Orthopedic Surgeon a month after the accident.
$500,000.00 settlement to 39-year-old female
$500,000.00 settlement to 39-year-old female who was rear-ended in 3-car collision on I-290, sustaining a hip injury requiring arthroscopic surgery seven (7) months later. No ambulance arrived to the scene and no emergency room visit. - S. Wagner
$500,000 Trucking Accident Settlement
$500,000.00 settlement for 41-year-old male truck driver who suffered multiple trauma when a second truck driver entered the roadway from the shoulder without warning. Paid by undisclosed insurance company on behalf of confidential defendants.
$425,000 Tripping Accident Settlement
For women who tripped and fell out of an elevator when it mis-leveled by several inches when elevator doors opened in lobby.
$348,810 Slip N' Fall & Personal INjury jury Verdict
$348,810.00 verdict for plaintiff truck driver who allegedly slipped and fell on an oil spill at a loading dock at defendant's plant in Geneva, Illinois.
Plaintiff claimed he suffered a torn right medial meniscus. Defendants denied notice of any spill, asserted plaintiff had severe pre-existing degenerative arthritis and further argued that plaintiff had fallen on 12 different occasions before his arthroscopic surgery. Plaintiff responded by maintaining that he was asymptomatic prior to his first fall and that all subsequent falls were due to his weakened condition.
$270,000 Auto & Car Accident SETTLEMENT
$270,000 settlement plaintiff, female 24, driving to work southbound on 1-55 during morning "rush hour" when she was struck by defendant's tractor-trailer, which had jack knifed after allegedly being struck by a "phantom" hit-and-run driver. Plaintiff suffered a torn labrum of the left shoulder and underwent a left partial scapulectomy. Medical expenses totaled $52,000. Video footage of live television coverage from traffic copters of WBBN (CBS), WMAQ (NBC), and WGN was obtained and used by attorney William S. Wojcik to demonstrate pre-impact path of travel of the tractor-trailer and final resting place of the vehicles. $260,000 was paid on behalf of Lee Trucking; the remainder was paid by uninsured motorist carrier on behalf of "phantom" driver.
$210,241.65 Personal INjury Jury Verdict
$210,241.65 jury verdict for computer and copier salesman who was allegedly beaten by nightclub bouncer after climbing over a raised dance floor railing to join his wife. Plaintiff's medical expense totaled only $2,241.65. Plaintiff did not claim any lost work time, but alleged that he had some double vision in the periphery of his sight.
$200,000 PERSONAL INJURY - MOTOR VEHICLE SETTLEMENT
$200,000 settlement on May 21, 2014 one deft struck another deft who struck pltf M-32 at the intersection of 179th Street and Oak Park Avenue (Tinley Park). Pltf suffered aggravation of pre-existing shoulder injury, for which he underwent capsular release and debridement surgery ($41,00 medl expenses). Paid by State Farm: $100,000 for Driver No. 1, $50,000 and $50,000 for Driver No 2 UIM – all policy limits.
$192,000 Amusement Park SETTLEMENT
$192,500 for three roller-coaster riders who were stuck upside down on the Demon roller coaster when ride failed at Six Flags.
$140,000 Auto & Car Accident Settlement
Television reporter sustained back injury in auto accident - only $7500 in medical expenses.
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