Workplace Injury Settlements

Illinois Record Jones Act settlement for a 37-year-old man who sustained serious neck and spinal cord injuries in an Illinois boat explosion. This settlement surpassed Levin & Perconti’s previous Record Jones Act settlement of $4.5 million, set in 2007.

Former Illinois record Jones Act settlement for a deckhand whose leg was crushed between two barges resulting in an above the knee amputation.

construction site injury settlement for a 33-year-old man who sustained severe injuries after falling through a chimney stack opening that was not covered or marked on a residential construction site in Glencoe, Illinois.

settlement for a 27-year-old roofer in a workplace injury case who was paralyzed when he fell from a roof as a result of the general contractor’s failure to provide appropriate safety devices.

verdict for a man who sustained a workplace back injury resulting in multiple spinal surgeries.

settlement for a 27-year-old man who suffered a closed head injury and back, hand, and shoulder injuries while working at a Bartlett retailer. As our client was raised on a forklift unloading a shipment from a tractor trailer, the truck’s driver pulled away from the loading dock without warning, catapulting our client and causing him to strike his head on the trailer’s roof and fall.

settlement for a 47-year-old HVAC foreman who tripped over a piece of structural steel lying in a passageway of a construction site. The plaintiff fell on the piece of steel and suffered a severe back injury.