After Insurance Company Denial & Previous Attorneys Dropping the Case, Willens & Baez Secured a $255,000.00 Settlement
After insurance denied liability and previous attorneys dropped his case, Willens and Baez secured a $255,000.00 settlement on behalf their client On October 24, 2020, our client, a 25-year-old truck driver, was involved in an unfortunate set of events which left him hospitalized. At around 10:17 AM while traveling Westbound, through Marshall Township in Clark […]
Willens and Baez secure a $351,000.00 settlement in a contested motor vehicle collision case
On May 7, 2021, at approximately 5:30 AM, our client was driving Westbound at 8900 W Grand Ave in River Grove, Illinois when he was stuck by a vehicle heading Eastbound. The driver of the at fault vehicle lost control of his Ford Explorer and crossed the dividing line. Our client attempted to evade the […]
Chicago Emergency Room Misdiagnosis by Physician Results In Justice For Our Client
Our client, a 68-year-old active man, still gainfully employed, sustained injuries because of negligent care provided by an emergency medicine physician. The negligence occurred at the emergency room of a Chicagoland hospital. Our client was taken by his wife to a care center. He had a two-day history of sore throat which was getting worse. […]
Surgical Error / Deviation From Accepted Standard of Care Leads To Confidential Settlement
Our client went to an emergency room in a hospital located in the suburbs of Chicago. He was admitted to the hospital with a known history of a duodenal duplication cyst or diverticulum. He had stomach pain and had been vomiting. A CT Scan of the abdomen was interpreted to reveal an enlargement of this […]
$500,000 Catastrophic Motorcycle Accident Settlement with Insufficient Insurance
Most of the time when personal injury law firms announce a settlement, our firm included, it is somewhat of a brag. In plain English, announcing a settlement is sending the message, “ We are good. Look at us. We get big results…..” This $500,000 settlement we discuss in this article is no such brag. This […]
Resolution Reached For Severely Injured Woman In Disputed Liability Truck Accident Case
Willens & Baez lawyers, Matthew L. Willens and David A. Baez, have obtained a significant confidential settlement for a severely injured woman. Our client, a 33-year-old female, was operating her car southbound on I-94 East in the fourth lane from the median in Libertyville, Illinois. At the same time and same place, the defendant truck […]
$400,000 Nursing Home Fall Settlement – Doing What Is Best For Our Clients, Not What Is Easiest For Us
This article discusses a nursing home negligence case that we handled not too long ago. To begin with, though our personal injury law firm has handled many nursing home negligence cases over the years, we don’t consider our law firm to be a nursing home negligence law firm. There are firms who do make that […]
Mishandled Staph Infection – Medical Malpractice or Nursing Home Negligence? Or Both? Or Neither?
We represented an 82-year-old man who was transferred from a Chicagoland hospital for skilled nursing care at a long term nursing care facility. There were two doctors at the facility caring for our client, an attending doctor and an infectious disease doctor who was managing our client’s antibiotic regimen. While at the hospital, our client […]
Settlement Reached In Medical Malpractice Case Involving Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer
This article stems from a recent medical malpractice settlement our firm had on a failure to diagnose colon cancer case. The names of the parties and the amount of the settlement are confidential. We represented the family of an elderly female, who underwent a screening colonoscopy at a Chicago-based hospital which was performed by a […]
$375,000 Settlement for Cyclist Whose Bicycle Flipped In Avoiding a Vehicle Attempting an Unlawful U-Turn
On the morning of October 10, 2020, our client decided to go on a leisurely bike ride through Highland Park, with two of her close friends. While cruising Southbound on St. Johns Avenue, approaching Laurel Avenue, our client suddenly noticed a vehicle pop out from the right side of the roadway and attempt to make […]
