Dangerous Property and Products

A 28-year-old sign painter was electrocuted while painting a billboard due to employer, billboard owner, and electrical company's negligence.

Kevin P. Durkin obtains a record $16 million verdict on behalf of two families whose sons were killed in a grain bin entrapment incident in northwestern Illinois. The two teenagers suffocated in what became a sinkhole of grain. The previous record in that county was $220,000 in 1989. Click here to read more about this case.

An 84-year-old man dies after falling on to the ground as he was descending from a bus.

Home health care worker suffers nerve damage and scarring on arm when bit by a dog owned by her elderly client.

A 19-year-old woman suffers lacerations when she slipped in a downstate gas station bathroom.

A 78-year-old woman died after tripping on city sidewalk and striking her head.

An 83-year-old passenger suffers non-displaced fracture to her pelvis when bus comes to a sudden halt and she falls to the floor.

Man injured by falling glass from high-rise window on unprotected public sidewalk in the Loop.

A 29-year-old electrician suffers severe electrical burns to both hands while working on an electrical cabinet that was not supposed to be energized.