United States Senior Judge Karl S. Forester has set a July 19, 2010, trial date for the punitive damages phase of the lawsuit filed against Comair by the wife and daughters of Bryan Keith Woodward, who was killed when Comair Flight 5191 crashed in August 2006 at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. The compensatory […]
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Wisconsin Law Journal’s Verdict and Settlement Report 2009: Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Case Among Highest
Document: Wisconsin Law Journal’s Verdict and Settlement Report 2009 Each year the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Verdict & Settlement Reporter publishes a list of the largest verdicts and settlements featured in that publication. In the 2009 list, a $6.9 million settlement obtained by Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop attorneys in a lawsuit arising from a semitruck collision is featured. […]
American Board of Trial Advocates Selects Personal Injury Lawyer David Rapoport for Membership
Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop is pleased to announce that founding partner, personal injury attorney David Rapoport, has been selected for associate membership to the American Board of Trial Advocates, also known as ABOTA. Admittance to ABOTA is restricted and by invitation only, and its members must possess and adhere to its strict requirements for jury trial […]
Deadline to File Lawsuit for Illness or Injuries Caused by Contaminated Heparin Syringes Approaching
It has been nearly two years since AM2 PAT, Inc., (also known as Sierra Pre-Filled) manufactured the heparin syringes contaminated with the bacteria Serratia marcescens and sold those syringes to unsuspecting recipients, resulting in severe and debilitating illness. Persons injured by the contaminated syringes may be running out of time to file a heparin lawsuit […]
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Client Wants Trial for Last Suit in Comair Airplane Crash Case
Document: Widow wants trial for last suit in Comair crash The aviation accident attorneys at Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop are representing the widow and two daughters of a 39-year-old man in a wrongful death lawsuit arising from the Comair Flight 5191 airplane crash. As the three-year anniversary of the tragic airplane crash approached, aviation negligence […]
Attorney David Rapoport Joins Board of Directors of National Board of Legal Specialty Certification
At the summer convention of the American Association for Justice, attorney David Rapoport, founding partner of Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop a plaintiff personal injury law firm in Chicago, was voted onto the Board of Directors of the The National Board of Legal Specialty Certification (NBLSC). Mr. Rapoport served as the Illinois state coordinator for the organization […]
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Aviation Negligence Lawyers Retained in Continental Airlines Denver Airplane Crash
URL: http://www.ntsb.gov The aviation negligence lawyers at Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop have been retained by an airplane passenger, who was injured when Continental Airlines Flight 1404 crashed following takeoff from Denver International Airport in Colorado on December 20, 2008. Continental Flight 1404, a Boeing 737-500 (N18611), came to rest in a ravine and burst into flames, with […]
Continental Airlines Flight 3407 Airplane Crash Buffalo, New York
At about 10:15 p.m. (EST) on Thursday, February 12, 2009, a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 twin-engine turboprop airplane, registration N200WQ, operated by Colgan Air, Inc., as Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, New Jersey, crashed into a house during an instrument approach to Buffalo International Airport. All 49 people aboard the aircraft lost their lives and […]
Appellate Court Rules Against Sea-Doo Personal Watercraft Manufacturer in $2 Million Wrongful Death
Document: Appellate Court Ruling Against Personal Watercraft Manufacturer On May 25, 2007, following a two-week wrongful death trial, a 12-member Rockford, Illinois, jury returned a record-setting $2 million verdict in favor of the parents and sister of a 9-year-old girl whose wrongful death was caused in a collision with a 1994 Bombardier Sea-Doo personal watercraft. During […]
Continental Airlines Flight 1404 Airplane Crash
URL: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6192207.html. At Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop the firm’s aviation litigation attorneys have represented aircraft disaster victims and their families in legal venues across the country. Our aviation lawyers’ experience spans a broad range of commercial, corporate and recreational aircraft incidents, including those associated with aviation negligence. Our attorneys’ understanding of aviation safety regulations, operation, […]
Continental Airlines Flight 1404 Airplane Crash at Denver International Airport in Colorado
The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched a Go Team to Denver, Colorado, to investigate the crash of an airliner on takeoff. On December 20, 2008, at 6:18 p.m., Mountain Standard Time, Continental Airlines Flight 1404, a Boeing 737-500 (N18611), suffered an accident while on its takeoff roll for a scheduled flight to Houston, Texas. Investigators are […]
Products Liability Lawsuit Alleges Client Implanted With Defective Hip Replacement System
Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop filed a product liability lawsuit today on behalf of a 54-year-old woman who had a defective hip replacement system implanted into her during a right total hip replacement surgery on March 21, 2007. According to the product liability lawsuit, defendants Stryker Corporation, Stryker Ireland, Ltd., and Howmedica Osteonics Corporation have been manufacturing, […]
$9.858 Million Jury Verdict for Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Client – Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
A Chicago jury returned a $9.858 million verdict against the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and the doctor running the Fellows Clinic of the college in Downers Grove, Illinois, on behalf of a Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop client who was formerly a medical student at that school. Now 31 years old, our client was […]
$1 Million Settlement Reached for Construction Worker Injured After Falling at Construction Site
Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop obtained a $1 million settlement today on behalf of a worker who was seriously injured during a roofing replacement project on a single-family home in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. According to the worker, he was hired by the roofing contractor to assist with the roofing work. During the job, the roofing […]
Contaminated Heparin Syringe Recall Expanded As More Lawsuits Are Filed
Much has happened since a Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop client filed a lawsuit against Chicago-based AM2PAT, Inc., on December 21, 2007. AM2PAT is a company that manufactured contaminated heparin syringes used by hospital outpatients with cancer and other serious illnesses. On January 18, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration announced an expanded nationwide voluntary […]
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Files Product Liability Lawsuits Against Manufacturer of Contaminated Heparin Syringes
Much has happened since a Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop client filed a product liability lawsuit against Chicago-based AM2 PAT, Inc., on December 21, 2007. AM2 PAT is a company that manufactured contaminated heparin syringes used by hospital outpatients with cancer and other serious illnesses. On January 18, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration announced an expanded […]
FDA Issues an Expanded Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Contaminated Heparin and Saline Flush Syringes
Document: 2008 Safety Alert: Heparin and Normal Saline Pre-Filled Flushes Click on the link above to view the Food and Drug Administration’s expanded nationwide voluntary recall of heparin and saline flush syringes manufactured by AM2 PAT under the brand names Sierra Pre-Filled and B. Braun. Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop is a personal injury law firm […]
Rapoport Law Offices, P.C., Attorneys Distinguished Among Top Personal Injury Lawyers in Illinois
In recent months attorneys David E. Rapoport and Paul D. Richter of Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop in Chicago, Illinois, have both been distinguished as among the top Illinois personal injury lawyers. On October 18, 2007, Chicago attorney David E. Rapoport was once again selected as a top personal injury lawyer in Illinois. This designation, from the Law […]
Chicago Lawyer Paul D. Richter Named Among Top Personal Injury Attorneys in Illinois January 9, 2008
Chicago-based personal injury and wrongful death law firm Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop is pleased to announce that Paul D. Richter has been selected as a Rising Star among Illinois attorneys for 2008 by Super Lawyers Magazine. This honor, given to attorneys in each state as rated by their peers and through the independent research of […]
Contaminated Heparin Syringes Products Liability Lawsuit Filed by Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop in Chicago
Rapoport Weisberg Sims & VanOverloop filed a product liability lawsuit today against AM2PAT, INC., d/b/a Sierra Pre-filled, a company that manufactured contaminated heparin syringes used by hospital outpatients with cancer and other serious illnesses. The plaintiff, a 30-year-old leukemia outpatient of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, became violently ill after using the tainted syringes […]
