Cook
County Circuit Judge Donald J. O'Brien Jr. Approved $1.375
million Settlement
(As printed in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
9/28/2001)
Cook
County Circuit Judge Donald J. O'Brien Jr. on Thursday approved
a $1.375 million settlement in the case of a 45-year-old
woman whose lower leg was amputated following a slip-and-fall
accident.
Marianne
Larsen-Hruby slipped on an icy sloped walkway while leaving
PICS Previews in Elk Grove Village Jan. 22, 1997, breaking
her ankle in three places, Larsen-Hruby, who is a diabetic,
suffered complications with the fractures and her leg had
to be amputated below the knee in June 1998.
Plaintiff's
attorney Kurt D. Lloyd of Lloyd & Cavanagh claimed the
walkway's slope violated the applicable building code because
there was no flat landing outside the doorway. He said the
building's owner, represented by Jeremiah P. Connolly of
Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey, agreed to pay $625,000.00;
PICS, represented by Joseph F. Spitzzeri of Johnson &
Bell, agreed to $400,000.00 and waive a $150,000.00 workers'
compensation lien; and the walkways' builder, represented
by Angela DiVito of the Law Offices of John J. Zachara,
agreed to pay $200,000.00.
Marianne Larsen-Hruby v. Krautsack, PICA Previews Inc.
and Foote, Cone & Belding, No. 98 L 6411.
