Varadachari and McGonigle Receive Favorable Verdict in Jury Trial
Bharat Varadachari and Adam McGonigle recently received a favorable verdict for their client in a rear-end collision case in St. Louis County in which Plaintiff alleged a substantial head injury with permanent repercussions. Plaintiff had asked the jury for $5 million. After deliberating over five hours, the 9-3 verdict from the jury awarded the Plaintiff […]
Varadachari and McGonigle Earn Defense Verdict
Bharat Varadachari and Adam McGonigle obtained a defense verdict in Peoria County, Illinois, in a wrongful death case of a 41-year-old woman arising out of a trucking/automobile accident. Plaintiff asked for $15 million. The jury deliberated for 3½ hours before rendering a verdict in favor of Varadachari and McGonigle’s client. Varadachari and McGonigle are with […]
Bringing Home the Bacon: HeplerBroom Clients Receive $2.5 Million Fee Award
On October 26, the Circuit Court for Scott County granted HeplerBroom’s clients’ motion for reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, and awarded the clients more than $2.5 million under the Illinois Farm Nuisance Suit Act (740 ILCS 70/4.5). The award represented the culmination of eleven years of litigation in which the firm defended the operators of […]
HeplerBroom Attorneys Help Secure Johnson & Johnson Defense Verdicts
Beth Bauer and Alexandra Haar were part of the trial team that recently secured a defense verdict for Johnson & Johnson and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. in a more than three-week trial in the City of St. Louis. The three plaintiffs all claimed their ovarian cancer was caused by the use of talc-based body […]
HB Attorneys Secure Defense Verdict in Talc Case
After a nearly three-week trial, a St. Clair County (Illinois) jury found Johnson & Johnson not liable in a wrongful-death suit filed by the family of a woman who died of ovarian cancer. The family had asked for up to $50 million in damages. HeplerBroom attorneys Jason Rankin, Julieta Kosiba, and Beth Bauer were part […]
Fowler and Magee Secure Defense Verdict in Defamation Case
In a recent St. Charles County defamation and injurious falsehood case, a jury found in favor of HeplerBroom’s clients on all counts. The case involved parents of an autistic child who had posted a negative review about the plaintiff, an autism specialist. The specialist then sued the parents, claiming his company suffered reputational damage and […]
Lytle and McGonigle Secure Substantially Reduced Award
After a one-week trial, a Greene County, Illinois, jury awarded a plaintiff about 20% of the amount she had been seeking. The case involved a fall and injury in the parking lot of a restaurant. Plaintiff suffered a patellar fracture that required four surgeries, culminating in a total knee replacement. She presented $269,000 in past medical costs […]
Environmental Attorneys Secure Important Legal Precedent for Farmers
On August 17, Illinois’ Fourth District Appellate Court delivered a resounding victory to HeplerBroom’s hog farming clients and to livestock farmers throughout the state of Illinois. The court’s decision affirmed a jury’s verdict in favor of a hog farming operation in Scott County that had been accused of being a nuisance. Equally important, the court’s decision […]
Lytle Obtains Affirmation of Summary Judgment
Dan Lytle recently obtained an Order from the Illinois Appellate Court, Second District, affirming a grant of summary judgment issued by the trial court in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Lake County, Illinois. The case of Briana Fay, as Special Administrator of the Estate of David Scheck vs Fifty K Corp. et. al. involved a […]
HeplerBroom Secures Defense Verdict in Talc Case
The St. Louis City Circuit Court recently entered judgment in favor of a HeplerBroom client, a major manufacturer of baby powder. The three-week talcum powder trial ended with a full defense verdict for HeplerBroom’s client. The Plaintiff in the case had claimed her use of baby powder caused her to develop ovarian cancer. She had […]