$6,063,115 jury verdict - Truck/Motor Vehicle Collision
Two teenage passengers were riding in a vehicle when it was broadsided by a semi-tractor trailer. Both teenagers suffered closed head brain injuries. After the trucking company refused to settle the case, a jury verdict was entered against the trucking company in favor of the teenage boys. The award was one of the largest verdicts in the history of DuPage County, a historically conservative county.
Confidential settlement - Product Liability
M&S filed suit against a well-known SUV manufacturer and tire manufacturer, when a tire tread separation caused a SUV to lose control and rollover in Ghana, West Africa, causing the driver to be ejected and sustain closed head brain injury. Mark W. Mathys and Mark T. Schneid spent one month in West Africa over two trips and successfully secured the physical evidence, videotaped trial testimony, and aerial crash scene video and photos using an international reconstruction expert. M&S retained nationally recognized tire experts, obtained "whistleblower" statements from former tire factory workers and utilized innovative demonstrative videos to secure a very favorable settlement for the client at mediation.
$4,250,000 settlement - Product Liability/Negligence
M&S attorney played supporting role in a case where elderly couple was killed when their home exploded due to a defective natural gas connection in a kitchen appliance.
$942,000.00 settlement - Premises Liability
M&S filed suit against a well-known national bookstore for a 45 year old woman who tripped on several improper placed overlapping floor mats, causing her to fall and sustain injuries to her shoulder and neck requiring several surgeries. M&S retained a nationally recognized safety expert and a highly credentialed orthopaedic physician to maximize this exceptional settlement at mediation prior to trial.
$871,639.00 settlement - Automobile Accident
A 34 year old woman was thrown from the vehicle and sustained a degloving scarring injury to her right arm, fracture of a vertebra in her lower back, fractured ribs and a bulging disc in her lower back.
$731,123.79 jury verdict - Medical Malpractice
Using sophisticated digital courtroom technology and a nationally recognized expert physician, Mark W. Mathys and Mark T. Schneid successfully prosecuted a difficult ten day OB/GYN medical malpractice trial in Cook County after the defendant doctor made no offer of settlement. Three weeks after the plaintiff delivered her first baby; the defendant failed to properly manage plaintiff's post-partum bleeding and performed an unnecessary surgical procedure that left the plaintiff unable to have any more children.
$690,232.41 jury verdict - Motor Vehicle Collision
A 30 year old man was a passenger in a vehicle when the driver lost control, ran off the road and hit a tree. The man had fractures to his right leg, right foot, left leg and collar bone and incurred $90,000 of medical expenses.
$546,000.00 settlement - Construction Accident
A 50 year-old man sustained leg fractures at a construction site when a unique piece of heavy construction equipment failed and fell onto the client's leg. The case involved over 10 defendants initially with 4 defendants ultimately contributing to the settlement at mediation prior to trial.
$450,000.00 settlement - Premises Liability
A 70 year old woman stepped in a deep hole in the parking lot of a restaurant causing her to fall and land on her left hip, resulting in a fracture of her left femoral head. Using a sophisticated digital presentation, the defendant's fault was clearly presented, enabling the case to be settled early in litigation during mediation.
$335,000 Settlement - Trucking Accident
A 39 year-old man was injured when a semi-tractor trailer slammed into stopped traffic on a highway causing the client's work van to roll down an embankment. The client sustained shoulder injuries, a closed head injury and tinnitus (ringing in the ears).
