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Dec 3, 2007

Rocker v. USAA Casualty, et al.

Special damages: past medical expenses: $135,694; past wage loss: Contested issue; plaintiff argued past wage loss somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000-$300,000; defendant argued past wage loss was somewhere between $30,000 and $80,000; future medical expenses: $35,787; future loss of earnings: Plaintiff argued there was a number of different ways that future loss of earning […]

Dec 3, 2007

Scott G. Weadge, Dean Health Plan, Inc., and Jeffrey D. Nolte, D.C. v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company and Kristin Ransom

Defense counsel’s summary of the case: This case arose out of a low velocity traffic accident on Jan. 7, 2004 at 4:45 p.m. in Janesville. An uninsured driver, Kristin Ransom, rear-ended Scott Weadge’s truck at a stop light. No one claimed injury at the scene of the accident and law enforcement was not called to […]

Nov 26, 2007

05 CV 1670 Whitehead v. Willson, et al.

Plaintiff counsel’s summary of the case: Mary Whitehead was a passenger in a van operated by the defendant, Michael Willson, when it left I-80 in Iowa and crashed. Mr. Willson apparently fell asleep at the wheel.

Nov 26, 2007

05 CV 653 Calvin v. Zahrt, et al.

Plaintiff counsel’s summary of the case: Deante Calvin was a passenger in his grandmother’s car. In a construction zone where temporary stop signs had been placed in an unusual configuration, the truck driver failed to see the signs requiring him to stop. Deante’s grandmother had stopped at her stop sign which was set back some […]

Nov 12, 2007

Quad/Graphics, Inc., et al., v. HK Systems, Inc., et al.

Plaintiff counsel’s summary of the facts: An automated storage system at Quad/Graphics’ printing plant in Lomira collapsed after two months of use while carrying less than 42 percent of its required weight capacity. The collapse started a fire in the stored paper materials, which burned for three weeks. Quad/Graphics’ property insurer, Industrial Risk Insurers, paid […]