Richard F. Burke, Jr.

A 14-year-old minor fell 65 feet from a recreational climbing wall at a Chicago area health club after his instructor failed to ensure that his harness was secured with a proper type of knot. The young man sustained fractures of both heels and his arm, as well as a shoulder dislocation.

A 22-year-old male suffered severe burns to his chest when he fell onto a grate covering the heat source in a sauna.

A husband and father of two young children was killed when a semi-tractor tanker truck crashed head-on into his vehicle as he was going home to his family.

The defendant teenager backed into the plaintiff, who was his friend, resulting in a head injury.

Despite risk factors for coronary artery disease, a 56-year-old woman was taken to surgery for a hysterectomy without a pre-operative cardiac consultation. She died of a heart attack shortly after the surgery.

A 45-year-old man lost part of his leg after it was crushed due to the unsafe design of a large piece of industrial equipment used in a Chicago manufacturing plant.

Elderly woman was hit by a sliding door as she entered a large department store, knocking her to the ground and causing a nondisplaced fracture of her hip.

A construction laborer experienced permanent back injuries when he was struck by a piece of equipment protruding from a passing truck on a roadway construction job site.

A woman sustained knee and neck injuries, as well as significant emotional distress, when she was a passenger onboard a large aircraft that experienced an engine fire immediately before takeoff.