In
l996, partner Tim Cavanagh obtained a 5.75
million dollar arbitration award for a young female
police officer who lost her right leg after exiting her
squad car in the line of duty. This recovery is the largest
uninsured motorist award in Illinois history.
In
l997, a seventeen-year-old high school honor student was
killed in a one-vehicle crash in McHenry County, Illinois.
On behalf of the family, Tim Cavanagh
settled the case for 1.2 million dollars, representing
the full amount of the insurance policies available on the
vehicle, after State Farm Automobile Insurance Company was
sued for spoliation of evidence.
In
l997, partner Kurt Lloyd obtained a 1.1 million dollar underinsured
motorist settlement against a driver for the wrongful death
of a fourteen-year-old girl who was a passenger in a one-car
crash. The death occurred after the Illinois Legislature
had passed into law a new wrongful death limit on awards
for $500,000. This is the only reported case to settle in
excess of limit before Illinois Supreme Court struck down
the limit as unconstitutional.
In
1995, Tim Cavanagh again obtained a 586,000 thousand dollar
wrongful death jury verdict for the family of a man who
had only months to live before he died as the result of
an automobile collision caused by a taxi driver.
In
1990, Kurt Lloyd was the plaintiff's trial attorney and
procured a 310,000 thousand dollar verdict from a Milwaukee,
Wisconsin jury for a woman who was knocked down in a crosswalk
by a left turning school bus. The plaintiff, a 37 year old
insurance claims adjustor, had suffered a bulging disc in
her lower back which she claimed was inoperable and caused
chronic depression and pain. The defense argued that the
plaintiff was a former drug abuser and alcoholic who was
already depressed and had psychosomatic pain.
