Firm News

A lawsuit has been filed in Cook County, Illinois, by a police officer who suffered permanent injuries after his family vehicle was crashed into by an 18-wheeler whose driver was traveling too fast in a construction zone. The lawsuit, filed by Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop alleges that the truck driver was driving too fast […]

A lawsuit has been filed in DuPage County, Illinois, on behalf of a 38-year-old man who sustained serious and permanent injuries after being rear-ended in an auto collision on August 27, 2013. At the time of the accident, the plaintiff’s vehicle was stopped in traffic in the westbound lanes of I-88 in York Township, when […]

March 2, 2015 This morning a lawsuit was filed in Rockford by the family of a 21-year-old man who was killed as a result of an industrial accident that occurred on June 10, 2014, at the Ventra Belvidere, LLC, plant. The victim, a graduate of Harlem High School class of 2010, was employed by Ventra […]

Last weekend attorney David Rapoport attended the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) Mid-Winter Board Meeting in Houston, Texas. Mr. Rapoport is in his second year serving as President of the NBTA. The NBTA was the first American Bar Association (ABA) accredited attorney board certification program. NBTA’s Board of Directors, which Mr. Rapoport chairs, is […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop has filed a lawsuit in Brown County, Wisconsin, after a baby boy suffered a brain injury during birth. The lawsuit alleges the baby’s mother arrived at the hospital for labor and delivery after an uncomplicated full-term pregnancy. Upon admission all signs indicated the baby was in good health, but during […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop filed suit today in the Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois, on behalf of a 55-year-old woman who was seriously injured after her vehicle was struck by a school bus. The lawsuit, filed against Peotone School District 207-U and the bus driver, alleges the driver left a stop sign and […]

Today, the Professionalism Center and the Maryland State Bar Association hosted the first “Maryland Law 20/20: a vision” symposium. Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop attorney David Rapoport, President of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, was invited to be part of a panel that included distinguished guest speakers Honorable Alan M. Wilner, retired judge of […]

The National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) Board of Directors met in Baltimore, Maryland, last week. The meeting marks the beginning of Mr. Rapoport’s second year as the President of the National Board of Trial Advocacy Board of Directors. The NBTA is the oldest American Bar Association (ABA) accredited attorney board certifying agency in the […]

David Rapoport of Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop was recently invited by the President of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys to serve as Regional Chair in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Mr. Rapoport agreed to take on this new role in support of the ABPLA and its mission. For more than four decades, the […]

David Rapoport of Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop has been appointed to serve on the Public Education Committee of the American Association for Justice. Mr. Rapoport is a long-standing supporter of the AAJ and is a member of the Leaders Forum. The American Association for Justice is the largest trial bar in the world. The […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop filed a medical malpractice case today in the Circuit Court of Dane County, Wisconsin, on behalf of a 32-year-old woman for the delayed diagnosis of her breast cancer. The lawsuit alleges the woman’s doctor improperly assessed a mass on the woman’s breast and said it was not suspicious rather than referring the […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop, filed suit against Chrysler and a maintenance supervisor today in the Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois. The action arose out of an injury that occurred when a contracted security guard providing security services for Chrysler at their Belvidere, Illinois, facility was called to investigate a fire that started in […]

Last weekend, attorney David Rapoport participated in the annual retreat of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Leaders Forum in San Diego, California. The Leaders Forum membership includes a select group of trial lawyers from across the country who help facilitate AAJ in its efforts to protect the civil justice system by increasing financial resources for public […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop has filed another product liability lawsuit against medical device maker Howmedica Osteonics Corp., doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics, along with Stryker Corp., Stryker Sales Corporation and Stryker Ireland Limited, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. According to the lawsuit, Stryker designed, manufactured and sold a defective medical device, the […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop Partner David Rapoport and EMR Discovery’s Ellie Barczak were co-presenters at this morning’s continuing legal education program at the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys’ (ABPLA) Annual Meeting at the Ritz Carlton South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida. Their topic was Cross-Examining Electronic Medical Records: An Update on EMR Discovery and Uses at […]

David Rapoport is now a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys (ABPLA) and is Board Certified* in Medical Malpractice. David is the only plaintiffs’ medical malpractice lawyer in Illinois with this qualification. ABPLA was formed in 1972 as a resource to assist the public in finding malpractice attorneys with superior knowledge and […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop filed a personal injury lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, on behalf of a 27-year-old woman who was injured when she was riding as a passenger in a cab that rear-ended another vehicle in Chicago, Illinois.

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop filed a personal injury case today on behalf of a driver who was seriously injured when a semitractor-trailer traveling on Interstate 294 outside of Chicago swerved across four lanes of traffic and caused a six- vehicle collision. The swerving semitractor-trailer caused the victim’s vehicle to smash into the concrete median resulting […]

Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop filed a premises liability case today on behalf of a 54-year-old woman who seriously injured her right arm when she slipped and fell on snow and ice in a parking lot. The lawsuit alleges the parking lot was owned and controlled by a country club that failed to keep the parking lot […]

When a United Airlines flight from Denver, Colorado, to Billings, Montana, encountered severe turbulence yesterday afternoon injuring five passengers, an infant flew out of his or her parent’s arms and landed in another seat. Though the infant fortunately did not appear injured, the flight incident is but another reminder of the dangers inherent in children […]