Verdicts and Settlements
$1,500,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
A construction laborer was working in an elevator shaft doing asbestosis remediation. A co-worker cut a hydraulic line, which was not properly labeled, causing the elevator to descend and crush the laborer working in the shaft. The young man was married with four children. With the use of expert testimony, we ...
$1,000,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
Our client was traveling on Interstate 94 near the Lowry tunnel in Minneapolis when another vehicle pulled out into his lane of travel, causing traffic to slow abruptly. Our client was struck from behind by a semi-truck and killed instantly. He wa...
$960,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
Our client's husband, a 33 year old plumber, died as a result of injuries sustained at a residential jobsite in Minnesota. An employee of one of the subcontractors was operating a back hoe digging a trench for the plumbing to be installed to the street. One wall of the trench collapsed covering the plumber while he was working in...
$600,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
A 20 year old woman was killed when her car was hit by a semi that ran a red light at an intersection. She was rushed to Mayo Clinic in Rochester where they spent 2 days in an attempt to keep her alive. She ultimately died of cerebral traumatic injuries. Medical costs for those two days were over $75,000. Art Kosieradzki won a set...
$495,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
A teenage girl was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her mother. The vehicle was traveling northbound on Highway 13 in the city of Shakopee, Minnesota, when it was rear-ended by another vehicle. The impact forced the mother and daughter into the southbound lane where it was struck again by a well-drilling truck transporting metal we...
$400,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
Cory Whalen was hired to pursue a wrongful death case. He successfully recovered $400,000 for the Plaintiff in Settlement with Defendant.
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$375,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
Our client's father had gone to a cabin in Northern Wisconsin. He was returning from the cabin riding as a passenger in rural Wisconsin. The driver pulled out to cross the highway from a side road and didn't see an oncoming vehicle. The two vehicles collided and our client's father sustained traumatic head injuries and inter...
$198,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
A wrongful death action arose out of a two vehicle collision at the intersection of two highways in rural Minnesota. Our client's son, a 17 year old rear seat passenger in one of the vehicles, was fatally injured. Susan Holden represented the surviving father and three surviving younger brothers. Settlement of these claims before...
$175,000.00
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
Our client's son was a 19-year-old man who was arrested for DWI. After the son was booked, given an alcohol breath test at the county jail and placed in his holding cell, he was left alone and unobserved for nearly two hours. The son hanged himself during that time. Surveillance video from the hallway outsid...
Confidential
Practice Area - Wrongful Death
Client Injury - Death
One of the very first drunk driving fatalities in 2008 was the tragic tale of the Minnesota police officer who had his wife with him for a "ride along" on New Year's Day. In the early hours of the morning, a young woman was driving her vehicle on the wrong side of the freeway and struck his vehicle head-on, killing the officer...
