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.
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- Pro Bono Legal Services for Those Injured and Those Who Lost Loved Ones in the I-35W Bridge Collapse. Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. led a group of 17 law firms which have provided legal services to the over 100 people who were injured and who lost loved ones on August 1, 2007 when the I-35W Bridge in downtown Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River. Our firm has provided free legal services to its clients while many firms in the Consortium offered their services at a reduced rate. In 2008, our attorneys helped secure a legislatively created $37 million compensation fund for those 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, paid additional settlement funds to the Consortium's clients. Now, three years after the collapse in August 2010, URS Corporation, the company hired by the State to assess the bridge'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 for those injured and those who lost loved ones and 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.
- Counsel for plaintiffs in class action involving illegal strip searches conducted at the St. Croix County, Wisconsin jail. Settlement of $7 million. Read more.
- $17 million settlement of consolidated cases in the I-5 (California) dust storm litigation involving a 99-vehicle, rear-end accident.
- $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 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.
- $4.2 million verdict against a building owner for 14 plaintiffs injured as a result of a Sick Building Syndrome that was allowed to develop in the indoor air environment of this office building during its renovation.
- $4 million jury verdict involving a young girl who lost her arm in a parade accident.
- $3 million settlement on behalf of the family of a man killed in a head-on collision.
- $2.8 million verdict for a brain injured child.
- $2.6 million verdict involving an explosion that caused burns over 85% of an individual's body.
- $2.3 million settlement on behalf of a laborer who was crushed to death by a defective machine that polished raw iron castings.
- $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
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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