Top Settlements and Verdicts: Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Pritzker Olsen personal injury and wrongful death attorneys have decades of combined experience and a reputation for success in cases involving semi truck, car, van, motorcycle, bicycle accidents. Our lawyers have been interviewed by CBS, FOX, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and others. Fred Pritzker is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. For help with your semi truck accident call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our free consultation form.

PritzkerOlsen attorneys have fought hard for justice and deserved compensation in the following cases:

• Leg amputated when motorcycle rear ended by drunk driver – $6,000,000 on behalf of a young woman whose right leg was traumatically amputated when the motorcycle on which she was a passenger was struck by a drunk driver.
• Leg amputated following injuries sustained in a crash caused by a defective control mechanism – $3,750,000 product liability settlement for the young man who lost his leg following that crash.
• Brain injury in a multi-vehicle crash – $3,500,000 on behalf of a child who suffered significant brain damage (TBI) in a multi-vehicle crash. If your son or daughter was injured in an accident with a semi truck, you may sue the trucking company, the truck driver and others on your child’s behalf.
• Wrongful death truck accident - $2,850,000 on behalf of the family of a man who was killed when his vehicle was struck by debris from a truck. These cases generally involve inadequately secured freight or a loose wheel.
• Tow truck accident – $2,750,000 recovery for a 59 year-old truck driver who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the loss of his left eye and significant disfigurement when the tow chain being used to pull his semi tractor-trailer out of a ditch broke loose from a front-end loader to which it was attached.
• Traumatic brain injury suffered in semi truck crash -  $2,560,000  recovery for a couple whose vehicle was hit by a semi tractor trailer rig and then collided at highway speed with an SUV. The husband sustained a TBI and orthopedic injuries, and his wife suffered orthopedic injuries.
• Semi truck accident wrongful death- $2,000,000 for the family of a 37 year-old man who was killed when he was rear ended by a garbage truck.
• Run over by a semi truck settlement – $1,700,000 on behalf of a 42 year-old man who was run over by a semitrailer as he stood beside the road assisting another motorist who crashed in an earlier accident. The victim sustained multiple fractures and internal injuries from which he never fully recovered.
• Hit by a semi truck – $1,536,921 on behalf of a young man whose wheel chair was hit by a truck as the man tried to cross a busy road. The crash resulted in a hip fracture that required surgery and further limited his mobility.
• T-boned by a truck- $1,225,666 on behalf of a woman who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury when her vehicle was struck at a rural intersection.
• Traumatic brain injury when motorcycle hit by semi – $1,100,000 on behalf of a young man whose motorcycle was struck in a failure-to-yield-right-of-way case.