Construction and Workplace Safety Negligence
Unsafe business and recreational premises are a leading cause of serious personal injury or death. At Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., our lawyers have represented individuals who were hurt, and families of those who have died, as a result of unsafe premises or the lack of workplace safety. These situations occur in all types of venues, including the workplace, stores, residences or public recreational areas, and the causes include construction accidents, slip and falls, and animal attacks.
■ $2.4 million verdict for two iron-workers seriously injured in a workplace accident during the construction of a downstate Illinois department store.
■ $2.3 million settlement for construction superintendent injured on unnatural accumulation of ice from misplaced downspout.
■ $1.2 million settlement for a plumber injured in a fall during a house renovation.
■ $1 million settlement for a roofer who fell to the ground, sustaining serious personal injury, while working at a construction project in Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
■ $700,000 settlement for a cement finisher injured in a workplace accident during the construction of the International Terminal at O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
■ $277,000 verdict for a truck driver that seriously injured his knee in a fall when making a delivery.
■ $225,000 verdict for an electrician injured by a defective fence on premises owned by Chicago's Metropolitan Sanitary District.
■ 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 a lawsuit behalf of a man who suffered severe injuries as a result of an industrial plant explosion in downstate Illinois.