The lawyers at Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. represent individuals injured and families of those killed as a result of all types of personal injury accidents, including defective products, boating accidents, recreational vehicle accidents, and dangerous premises.
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Representative Lawsuits Handled by our personal injury Lawyers:
■ $2 million verdict for the family of a nine-year-old girl who was struck by a Bombardier Sea-Doo personal watercraft. The girl died as a result of her injuries.
■ $1.2 million settlement for a high school student who suffered salmonella poisoning as a result of drinking tainted milk sold by Jewel Foods, a Chicago area grocery chain. This was one of the largest settlements in the series of product liability cases filed as a result of the poisonings.
■ Settlement (amount subject to confidentiality agreement) for the family of an Army Corps of Engineers employee that died in a workplace accident when the rail mounted crane he was operating toppled off a lock and dam into the Mississippi River.
■ Settlement (amount subject to confidentiality agreement) for a worker that suffered severe foot injuries when the scissors lift he was operating collapsed as a result of a defective cable.
■ The firm is representing a machine operator whose hand was trapped in a faulty press at 400 degrees Fahrenheit causing serious injuries and disfigurement.
■ Rapoport Law Office attorneys have filed lawsuits on behalf of a group of individuals who became violently ill as a result of using contaminated heparin and saline flush syringes. The tainted syringes were manufactured in Chicago by AM2 PAT.
■ A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a 54 year old woman who had a defective hip replacement system implanted into her during a right total hip replacement surgery. According to the lawsuit, defendants Stryker Corporation, Stryker Ireland, Ltd., and Howmedica Osteonics Corporation have been manufacturing, distributing and selling the defective Trident brand ceramic on ceramic hip replacement systems in the United States since 2003, and continued to do so despite being warned by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that these hip replacement systems were in violation of federal safety requirements.
