
WRONGFUL DEATH CASES
$800,000.00 for a 30-year
old single female killed in a rear-end
automobile collision. Alden Township, April
2006.
$250,000.00 for a 37-year
old married female killed in an intersection
collision. Libertyville, Illinois, April
2006.
PERSONAL INJURY CASES
$100,000.00 67 year old
female auto crash, herniated disc two
levels, Elgin, Illinois - June 2008
$40,000.00, personal
injury, 58 year old female, non-displaced
fracture to left foot, Richmond, Illinois -
May 2007
$83,561.00, personal
injury, 39 year old male, arthroscopic knee
surgery repair a torn medial meniscus and
bulging discs, Elgin, Illinois - May 2007
$225,000.00, personal
injury, 34 year old male, two separate
surgeries resulting in a lumbar fusion
L4-L5, Chicago, Illinois - July 2007
$25,310.00, personal
injury, 48 year old male, cervical flexion
neck injury, bulging disc C-5-C7, Crystal
Lake, Illinois - September 2007
$21,000.00, personal
injury, policy limit ($20,000.00), 49 year
old female, cervical flexion injury,
Lindenhurst, Illinois - October 2007
$100,000.00 Lumbar discectomy, rear end
automobile collision, male 32 years old,
return to work with our restrictions,
Chicago, Illinois; May 2007
$40,000.00 Non-Displaced foot fracture rear
end automobile accident; 52 year old female;
Richmond, Illinois April, 2007
$10,700.00 Soft tissue low back injury;
intersection crash; 59 year old male;
Harvard, Illinois March 2007
1.4 Million Dollar verdict
for police disability pension (lifetime
benefits); 47 year old female officer,
lumbar fusion. Algonquin, Illinois February
2007.
$41,500 settlement for a
41 year old male with a cervical fusion
Highly disputed negligence claim. Marengo,
Illinois.
$4.3 million judgment in a
hate crime case, husband and wife in mid
30s, Wonder Lake, Illinois, November 2006.
$79,521.51 - 31 year old
male Automobile crash in Bloomingdale,
Illinois suffered bulging disc, treatment
was two steroid injections November 2006
$120,000.00 settlement,
16-year female in automobile collision
requring a cervical fusion, Harvard,
Illinois, September 2006. (policy limits)
$105,000.00 settlement,
34-year old male, ACL surgery, construction
site accident, Waukegan, Illinois, July
2006.
$100,000.00 for a 49-year
old male with a motorcycle intersection hip
fracture injury. McHenry, Illinois, March
2006.
$55,000.00 settlement,
33-year old female, slip and fall, low back
injury (herniated disc), Loves Park,
Illinois, August 2006.
$49,000.00 settlement,
55-year old female, cervical flexion injury,
Woodstock, Illinois, May 2006.
$49,000.00 for a 50-year
old female with a cervical fracture injury.
Woodstock, Illinois, April 2006.
$49,000.00 in a case
involving an intersection automobile
collision, a 3-day hospital stay, and no
permanent injuries. Lake County, Illinois,
April 2006.
$42,000.00 settlement,
38-year old female, cervical flexion injury,
Woodstock, Illinois, May 2006.
$40,000.00 as partial
settlement for a 53-year old male with a
cervical herniated disc. Marengo, Illinois,
December 2005.
$35,000.00 settlement,
46-year old male, suffered a cervical
flexion injury as a result of an automobile
collision in Lake County, Illinois, June
2006.
$32,000.00 for a 43-year
old male with a cervical flexion injury in a
rear-end automobile collision. Rockford,
Illinois, January 2006.
$30,000.00 settlement,
46-year old male, suffered a cervical
flexion injury as a result of an automobile
collision, Spring Grove, Illinois, May 2006.
$22,500.00 as partial
settlement for a 36-year old female with a
cervical flexion injury in an automobile
collision. Algonquin, Illinois, January
2006.
$18,000.00 for a 35-year
old male with a cervical flexion injury from
an intersection collision. Rockford,
Illinois, March 2006.
WORKER’S COMPENSATION CASES
$66,000.00, 64 year old
male customer service person; injured lower
back while lifting a grate at work; lumbar
fusion (one level), Algonquin, Illinois -
June 2008
$250,000.00, wage
differential settlement (lumbar fusion one
level), 38 year old truck driver, Woodstock,
Illinois - June 2008
$40,655.43, workers
compensation 73 year old female, office
worker, non-displaced fracture to left hip
and non-displaced fracture to left arm,
Woodstock, Illinois - May 2007
$140,000.00, workers
compensation, 38year old male, truck driver
, left elbow lateral epondlytis, Cary,
Illinois - May 2007
$53,407.24, workers
compensation, 44 year old male, press
operator, two partially severed fingers in
press machine, Wheeling, Illinois - May 2007
$5,808.26, workers
compensation, 53 year old female, machine
operator, double hernia, Capron, Illinois -
August 2007
$26,945.13, workers
compensation, 52 year old male, factory
worker, burns to left leg when acid spilled,
developed deep vein thrombosis, Round Lake,
Illinois - August 2007
$34,988.40, workers
compensation, 45 year old male, pipe fitter,
right knee torn medical meniscus, Spring
Grove, Illinois - August 2007
$28,832.13, workers
compensation, 29 year old male, electrician,
rotator cuff tear, Elgin, Illinois - October
2007
$17,500.00, workers
compensation, 52 year old female, office
clerk, disputed carpal tunnel syndrome,
Woodstock, Illinois - October 2007
$25,000.00, workers
compensation, 32 year old female, bank
teller, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome,
Niles, Illinois - November 2007
$9,299.40, workers
compensation, 51 year old male, hernia,
Harvard, Illinois - November 2007
$17,500.00, workers
compensation, 62 year old female, office
employee, carpal tunnel syndrome, Woodstock,
Illinois - October 2007
$52,500.00 settlement
fracture of the lert leg, tibia and fibia,
surgery with rodding through the tibia and
screws. 43 year old man, Libertyville,
Illinois , February 2007.
$28,500.00 settlement 54
year old woman, injury to left knee, torn
meniscus requiring arthroscopic surgery,
return to work with our restrictions,
Woodstock, Illinois February 2007.
$9,700.00 settlement
disfigurement case scar on lower leg, 54
year old man no surgery required, Huntley
Illinois, February 2007.
$200,000.00 wage
differential settlement (anterior cervical
disecetomy) 48 year old truck driver Lake
Villa Illinois, January 2007.
$73,000.00 settlement 34
year old sign worker injured arm while
lifting a crate at work, torn rotator cuff,
right shoulder, Lake Zurich Illinois ,
January 2007.
$125,000.00 settlement 59
year old brick layer herniated lumbar disc
with surgery with a return to work, West
Chicago Illinois, February 2007.
$73,000 Settlement Rotator
cuff tear, Lifting crate at work Lake Zurich
Illinois December 2006
$88,000.00 settlement,
37-year old male, herniated disc injury,
lifting at work, Hampshire, Illinois,
September 2006.
$88,000.00 for a 48-year
old printer who fell at work and had a
herniated cervical disc surgically repaired.
Wheeling, Illinois, February 2006.
$60,000 for a 50-year old
male truck driver who fell at work, causing
a lumbar bulging disc and left knee meniscus
tear. Woodstock, Illinois, March 2006.
$59,000.00 for a 45-year
old factory worker with repetitive trauma -
a rotator cuff tear requiring surgery.
Harvard, Illinois, March 2006.
$55,000.00 settlement,
49-year old male, suffered bilateral
eponchondolytis due to repetitive movement
at work, August 2006.
$36,000.00 for a 28-year
old factory worker who sustained a lumbar
herniated disc from lifting at work.
Waukegan, Illinois, November 2005.
$32,000.00 settlement,
43-year old female, right shoulder injury,
rotator cuff tear, Woodstock, Illinois,
September 2006.
$27,000.00 for a 46-year
old factory worker who suffered shoulder
impingement syndrome from lifting at work.
Lindenhurst, Illinois, March 2006.
$19,000.00 for an air
conditioning technician with a left hand
tendon injury from lifting at work. Crystal
Lake, Illinois, December 2005.
$16,000.00 for a 44-year
old construction worker who fell at work,
suffering a non-dominant hand non-displaced
wrist fracture. West Chicago, Illinois,
November 2005.
$15,000.00 for a 33-year
old grocery clerk with repetitive trauma
carpal tunnel syndrome. Lake Zurich,
Illinois, December 2005.
$14,000.00 for a 46-year
old male factory worker who fell at work,
causing a left knee meniscus tear. McHenry
County, Illinois, November 2005.
$14,000.00 settlement,
38-year old male, suffered an inguinal
hernia while lifting at work, Cook County,
Illinois, September 2006.
$4,500.00 for a 44-year
old male who had to have two teeth repaired
after he was hit in face with a cable.
Antioch, Illinois, November 2005.
Experience counts. Results matter.
Franks & Rechenberg, P.C.
1301 Pyott Road, Suite 200
Lake in the Hills, IL 60156
Phone: 847-854-7700
Fax: 847-854-7848
All phone calls returned the same day
Franks & Rechenberg, P.C. serves clients throughout McHenry County and Kane County, Illinois and the Chain O’ Lakes area, including the cities of McHenry, Lake In The Hills, Crystal Lake, Algonquin, Huntley, Marengo, Harvard, Woodstock, Cary, Richmond, Carpentersville, Dundee, Fox River Grove, and Elgin.