Our
primary areas of practice are Personal Injury, Professional
Malpractice, Civil Rights, and Insurance Company Misconduct (Bad Faith).
Clients seek our help for many different reasons. It may be
because they have been physically injured in an accident, neglected or
mistreated by their insurance company, injured by the negligence or misconduct
of professionals, sexually harassed at work, or retaliated against for
opposing discrimination in the workplace. Whatever the injury or issue
may be, we strive to provide excellent, first-class representation and
to help our clients every step of the way.
Personal Injury:
If you or a loved one
have been injured, or if your family has lost a loved one as a result
of the negligence or intentional misconduct of another party, our firm
will represent your interests against the parties at fault and, if
applicable, their insurance companies, to obtain fair compensation
for your injuries. Our firm represents clients in personal injury and
wrongful death cases recover for economic, physical, mental, and emotional
harm. Obtaining compensation for those injuries often includes recovering
monetary damages for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering.
In addition, if the facts of the case warrant it, we seek, and have
obtained, punitive damage awards.
Motor Vehicle Accidents - Many personal injuries result from
car accidents and collisions involving automobiles, motorcycles, buses, and trucks.
Drivers, passengers, or pedestrians may be injured as the result of such accidents,
and these accidents may involve negligence on the part of the other driver. In
addition to a simple failure to exercise ordinary care, an accident may be caused
by drunk driving or reckless behavior. In any of those situations, if you are
injured in an automobile accident, our firm can assist you in obtaining fair
and reasonable compensation for your injuries.
Products Liability - Our firm has decades of experience and
an excellent track record of representing individuals who have been injured as
a
result of an unsafe product that was designed, manufactured, sold, and/or furnished
by another person or company. We assist those injured individuals in litigating
their claims in order to receive compensation for their injuries. Our firm has
represented individuals injured by machinery and tools, medical products, motor
vehicles, firearms, asbestos, food and agricultural products, alcoholic beverages,
pharmaceutical products, and recreational products.
Lender Liability - Simply stated, lenders must treat their borrowers
fairly, and failure to do so can result in borrowers being damaged by the lender’s
conduct. Our firm has litigated claims against lenders in cases involving fraud,
breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duties, in order to help them obtain
compensation for the harm they have suffered.
Worker's Compensation - We represent employees who are injured
on the job in claims for lost wages and medical expenses against private industry,
federal, state, and local government employers and their worker's compensation
insurers.
Professional
Malpractice :
Our
firm is experienced in litigating professional malpractice cases. One of
the most important and difficult tasks is to help clients determine at the
outset whether or not malpractice has occurred. Our attorneys can help investigate
whether someone or something has been injured as a result of the negligence
or misconduct of individuals in the legal, medical, and health care professions.
If significant harm has resulted from the negligence of a professional,
our firm is well equipped to litigate the case in order to maximize the
compensation the injured person is entitled to receive.
Medical Malpractice - Physicians, surgeons, medical technicians,
nurses, and other health care professionals owe a duty to their
patients that is based on a recognized standard of care. Medical
malpractice claims typically involve the negligent breach of the
applicable standard of care and often involve negligent treatment
or the failure to diagnose existing injuries or conditions that
result in serious injuries, illness, disease, or suffering that
may could have been avoided or prevented. Medical malpractice claims
can involve serious injuries at all levels of the health care spectrum,
from birth injuries and defects to heart attacks or elderly abuse.
Our firm can help clients determine whether or not medical malpractice
has occurred when you or someone you love is injured as a result
of the negligence or misconduct of individuals in the medical field.
Legal Malpractice - Legal malpractice is defined
as negligence, professional misconduct, or the failure to exercise
a reasonable level of skill that results in injury, loss, or damages
to a client. Our firm represents individual and business clients
in legal malpractice claims against attorneys who fail to exercise
ordinary skill, judgment, and diligence in the course of providing
legal services to their clients.
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Civil Rights:
Our firm has a premiere
practice in the area of civil rights, which involves fundamental issues
of human rights and freedoms. We represent clients who have been the
victim of discrimination. Examples of discrimination cases that our
firm handles are: sexual harassment, race, gender, age, disability,
national origin, gender, and religion.
Our civil rights practice also extends to people whose Constitutional
rights have been infringed upon. These cases often include people who
have been the victim of misconduct perpetrated by the police or other
government actors.
Employment Law - Employment law covers a complex network
of laws that controls how employers must treat employees, former employees,
and applicants for employment. Our firm has significant experience representing
employees in employment discrimination cases. Common examples of such
claims include cases for sexual harassment, gender discrimination, or
race discrimination under the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act or Title VII.
Other employment law cases include: First Amendment claims, employee benefits,
whistleblower claims, wrongful discharge, the Americans With Disabilities
Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining
Notification Act, the Federal Employer's Liability Act, the Occupational
Safety and Health Act, and special laws governing municipal employment.
In addition, if you have complained about discrimination or harassment
in the work place, and have been retaliated against by your employer for
making such a complaint, we may be able to represent you in a retaliation
claim. In the context of the First Amendment, those cases are often referred
to as Whistle blower cases.
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Insurance
Company Misconduct / Bad Faith :
Our firm helps injured
individuals and their families with insurance claim disputes and coverage
and liability issues involving business, auto, fire, disability, and
homeowners policies.
Insurance companies owe their own insureds a duty of good faith
and fair dealing – a fiduciary duty. If the insurance company breaches
that duty, we represent the insured in what is called a “bad faith” claim
against the insurance company.
Bad faith claims against an insurance company could involve the
wrongful denial of a claim, wrongful denial of coverage, or the failure
to protect the insured from an excess judgment.
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