Personal Injury Lawyers
- Our Personal Injury lawyers represent individuals and their families who are injured or killed by the negligence of individuals, corporations and health care providers. Our lawyers have appeared on CBS News, Good Morning America (ABC), Dateline NBC, and other news programs and have been consistently named "Super Lawyers," and "Best Lawyers in America."
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Year after year we have been recognized for achieving top recoveries for people who have suffered serious personal injuries or economic harm from medical negligence. Many of our lawyers have more than 20 years of experience settling and trying all types of injury cases. Our registered nurse legal consultants take medical histories, conduct extensive medical research, and help evaluate the merits of cases. We have ready access to experienced experts in all fields of medicine, engineering, product design, automobile crash reconstruction, and other forensic fields. We have tried many medical malpractice cases to verdict and we have clarified the law in important cases before the Supreme Courts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Iowa.
Selected Results*
- Pro Bono Legal Services forThose Injured and Those Who Lost Loved Ones in the I-35W Bridge Collapse. Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. leda group of 17 law firms which have provided legal services to the over 100people who were injured and who lost loved oneson August 1, 2007when the I-35WBridge in downtown Minneapoliscollapsed into the Mississippi River. Our firmhas provided free legal services to its clients while many firms in the Consortium offered their services at a reduced rate. In2008, our attorneyshelpedsecure a legislatively created $37 million compensation fund forthose injured on the bridge and those who lost loved ones.In 2009, PCI Corporation, the construction company which placed thousands of pounds of construction material on the bridge the day it collapsed, paidadditionalsettlement funds to the Consortium's clients. Now, three years after the collapse in August 2010, URS Corporation, thecompanyhiredby the State to assess thebridge's safety,announced an agreement to pay more than $40 million to settle the Consortium clients' claims. An additional $1.5 million was recovered from URS which will be donated for the construction of a memorial honoring those who died. In total, more than $77 million has been recovered forthose injured and those wholost loved onesand Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. attorneys and staff devoted more than 20,000 pro bono hours to the case.
- Counsel for families of Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife, daughter and three staff members who died in a crash of a chartered airplane. Policy limits settlement of $25 million with aviation charter company and its corporate affiliates. Read more
- $10.3 million jury verdict involving a child who was seriously injured in an automobile incident with a semi-trailer.
- $8.5 million jury verdict involving a teen boy who lost both of his arms. The case was tried in the hometown of the defendant manufacturer. Read more
- $7.4 million jury verdict on behalf of a widow and her children for the wrongful death of a 51 year old man killed in a Cirrus plane crash near Hill City, Minnesota. Read more
- $4 million jury verdict for a young girl who lost her arm in the Holidazzle Parade disaster.
- On March 21, 2005, a 16-year-old went on a shooting spree at the Red Lake High School located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in far northern Minnesota. Ten people, mostly high school students, died in the rampage, making this one of the most devastating school shootings on record. We represented the families of 5 children who died in the shooting and 4 of the children wounded by the shooter. Together with counsel for the other victims of the shooting, we worked for several years to secure justice in the form of fair compensation for the victims of this tragedy. This compensation came in the form of confidential monetary settlements with the Red Lake School District and a private company that had been providing the school with security consulting services. Those settlements provided funds used in part for health care expenses and post-secondary education.
- Represented a 63-year-old farm wife who was severely injured when an approaching car crossed the center line on a rural two-lane road and struck the vehicle she and her husband were driving in. The collision leftthe womaninjured with fractures toher right shoulder and arm, pelvis, right hip, right leg, and right foot. After developing an infection in her left hand, the woman's left arm had to be amputated below the elbow. The defendants denied liability and disputed damages, but our attorneys secured a $3.8 million settlementto cover the woman'smounting medical expenses, projected future expenses,and to coverthe creation of a life-care plan to help her adapt to the injuries she sustained.
- $17 million settlement of consolidated cases in the I-5 (California) dust storm litigation involving a 99-vehicle, rear-end accident.
- Counsel for plaintiffs in class action involving illegal strip searches conducted at the St. Croix County, Wisconsin jail. Settlement of $7 million. Read more
- $700,000 settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving a young man whose pleas for medical care were rebuffed by jail employees for three days, resulting in death of acute bacterial meningitis associated with a skull fracture.
* Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the types of matters we handle and do not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other situation as all legal matters are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.
Articles
The Robins Justice Report - Special Edition
Summer 2011 (Vol. 5; Issue 2)
The I-35W "Remembrance Garden" Memorial
Toyota's Sudden Acceleration Recall
Following a recall of over 8 million Toyota vehicles, a safety researcher has reported that he found 19 deaths and 341 injuries resulting from 815 separate crashes involving the sudden acceleration of Toyotas.
Rebuilding Lives
Survivors of the I-35W bridge collapse are ready to tell their tales to the panel that will decide how much to compensate them.
Mandatory Reporters Must Speak for the Abused Child
Minnesota Association for Justice
In Becker v. Mayo Foundation, 737 N.W.2d 200 (Minn. 2007), the Court held that evidence of a medical professional’s responsibility to report suspected child abuse to outside authorities, when the standard of care requires such a report, is admissible.
Restraint Chairs Cause Unnecessary Pain, Injury and Even Death
The use of the "restraint chair" has proliferated in detention facilities across America. The increased use of such chairs, coupled with inadequate training and supervision of detention officers in their use has caused unnecessary pain, injury and even death.
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