Michael J. Perillo, Jr., Michael K. Noonan and Jason S. Marks, principals in the law firm of Noonan, Perillo, Polenzani & Marks, Ltd. achieved a settlement for a brain damaged five year-old girl in the amount of $4.7 million dollars.
The child was a passenger in her mother's automobile at the time of a collision with an 80,000 pound tractor-trailer. (The firm represented the little girl through her father, the custodial parent). Mother/driver made a left-hand turn across the path of the truck with a collision ensuing. At the hospital post-accident, the mother/driver was reported to have tested positive for controlled substances.
In representing the injured child, multiple experts were retained by the Noonan firm, including an accident reconstruction expert, a physician life care plan expert, an economist for the purpose of offering opinions as to the child's future medical expenses, and two toxicologists who each offered opinions rebutting allegations of the automobile driver's alleged intoxication or impairment.
The matter settled for the limits of the trucking company's insurance coverage in the week prior to the scheduled commencement of trial.
In April of 2007, Jason S. Marks obtained a settlement in the amount of $725,000 for a construction worker who was injured on a job site in Elgin, IL. The client had his left arm fully extended on the steering wheel of a forklift when he was struck in the left wrist by a 4' by 8' piece of plywood that had blown off the top of a scaffold. The client sustained a significant injury to his left wrist (triangular fibrocartilage tear and scapholunate ligament tear) which required surgery. A lawsuit was filed against the general contractor who was in charge of the construction site. The lawsuit alleged that the general contractor failed to insure a safe work site and failed to stop work in adverse weather conditions. The settlement included a partial waiver of a worker's compensation lien bringing the total value of the settlement in excess of $1,000,000. The firm had previously obtained a worker's compensation settlement for the client in the amount of $240,000.
Mike Noonan has obtained a $545,000 settlement for an office worker who sustained a back injury when a delivery man asked her to position herself between a pallet of soft drinks and his truck to help him move the pallet off the truck's lift gate. The unstable, 1500 lb. load, toppled, pinning the worker against the truck, rupturing two discs, and necessitating a double fusion of vertebrae in the lumbar spine.
$3.19 million dollar settlement reached in construction accident.
A man who was severely injured in a construction site accident in Gurnee, Illinois has won a $3.19 million dollar settlement from the construction companies blamed for causing the accident. A forty-three year painter on the residential construction site, suffered a fractured femur when a set of basement stairs collapsed causing him to fall to the concrete basement floor at the Cambridge Steeple Pointe Subdivision located in Gurnee, Illinois. Mr. Johnson underwent several surgeries including a total hip replacement.
This is the highest settlement in Lake County for an orthopedic type injury not otherwise involving amputation or paralysis.
Lake County Circuit Court Judge Henry Tonigan, III approved the settlement Tuesday, May 25, 2004.
Jason Marks recently obtained a settlement of approximately $200,000 for his client who was injured in an automobile accident in the city of Waukegan. The client, a 56-year old female, suffered a disc herniation in the cervical spine when her vehicle was rear-ended by a commercial truck. An anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery were performed to correct the disc herniation. The client made a good recovery from the surgical procedure and was able to return to work without restrictions.
A Waukegan woman who was traveling southbound on Rt. 43 in Lake Forest and was struck from behind by another vehicle has settled her claim against that driver for a total of $250,000. The client, who sustained a fractured sternum, ribs and comminuted fractures of the radius and ulna in her right wrist, was represented by Jason S. Marks. The claim against the driver of the vehicle that struck the client was settled for the insurance policy limits and the remainder of the funds were obtained from the client's own insurance carrier in an underinsured motorist claim.
