Verdicts and Settlements
$9,000,000.00
Practice Area - Product Liability
Client Injury - Paralysis
Shelly and John Marcon recall feeling a profound sense of relief after a Hennepin County jury returned a favorable verdict and they received $9 million for a paralyzing injury their son Luke suffered while riding a popular plastic sled sold by the K-Mart Corporation. “We know now that no matter what Luke needs, we will be ab...
$6,000,000.00
Practice Area - Railroad Crossing Accident
Client Injury - Death
Our client and 3 friends were driving across a railroad crossing in Anoka County when their car was hit by a freight train and they were all killed. Bill Bongard represented the family of one of the teens. He and attorneys for the other teens filed a claim against the BNSF railroad for negligence in causing their deaths. The railr...
$6,000,000.00
Practice Area - Motorcycle Accident
Client Injury - Head Injury
Our client was enjoying the open road on his motorcycle when he was hit by a semi-truck. He sustained a serious head injury. While the defense argued that our client was at fault because he was not wearing a motorcycle helmet, we proved successfully that the semi-driver was still responsible for the accident. Art Kosieradzki settl...
$5,000,000.00
Practice Area - Medical Malpractice
Client Injury - Brain damage
Our clients were a mother and father and their infant son. While in the hospital, the son was given sodium in place of his formula causing brain damage.
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$4,700,000.00
Practice Area - Premises Liability
Client Injury - Permanent Brain Damage
Our client and friends were drinking heavily at a bar in St. Cloud, MN. When they left the bar, intoxicated, our client went with the defendant and a woman to a “party”, which turned out to be the defendant’s apartment where he brutally assaulted our client. Our client was found by other residents app...
$4,250,000.00
Practice Area - Medical Malpractice
Client Injury - Incomplete Quadriplegia
Our client underwent surgery for a cervical diskectomy and fusion. She received a spinal cord injury at C6 when the anesthesiologist applied traction to her cervical spine so the surgeon could measure for a bone graft. The spinal cord injury caused permanent, incomplete quadriplegia. Paul Schweiger obtained a settlement from the...
$4,000,000.00
Practice Area - Medical Malpractice
Client Injury - Loss of Kidneys
$4,000,000.00, part of this recovery was used to purchase a structured settlement that will result in payout in excess of $13,000,000.00
Our client was a young girl who had to have a kidney removed due to the presence of a tumor. During the surgery, the surgeon inadvertently cut off the blood flow to the remaining healthy ...
$3,600,000.00
Practice Area - Car Accident
Client Injury - Amputation of legs, paralysis
In the early morning hours our client was traveling to work with a friend when they came upon some headlights that appeared to be in their lane. It was dark, raining and foggy. A garbage truck had pulled into the wrong lane and was actually facing toward our client as he approached. Our client understandably thought th...
$3,150,000.00
Practice Area - Birth Injury
Client Injury - Cerebral Palsy
$3,150,000.00, part of this recovery was used to purchase an annuity which will pay $9,000,000.00 over child’s lifetime
Our clients were a young girl and her parents, and the case involved the labor and delivery of the young girl. The medical personnel attending the birth failed to recognize non-reassuring signs and ...
$2,625,000.00
Practice Area - Truck Accident
Client Injury - Back, Spine and Pelvic injuries
Our client was asleep in the sleeping compartment of a semi-tractor when a single vehicle accident occurred. They were hauling a load of produce from Riversi...
$2,610,000.00
Practice Area - Truck Accident
Client Injury - Paralysis
Our client, a trucker purchased "new" tires for his truck in anticipation of the fall harvest hauling season. On his first trip from the field, loaded with corn, one of his "new" front tires blew out sending his truck into the ditch. The truck rolled and our client suffered paralysis from the neck down. The "new" front...
$2,500,000.00
Practice Area - Construction Accidents
Client Injury - Orthopedic and Brain Injuries
Our client, a young man, was working on the roof of the Lakeville High School in Lakeville, Minnesota. A 4' x 8' sheet of plywood covering a hole in the roof was not properly secured and he fell through the hole, approximately 30 feet to the concrete floor below. Our client suffered serious orthopedic and brain injuries, ending ...
