Kupets & DeCaro P.C.

According to ABC News, the government’s product safety watchdog is urging people to stop using decorative fuel gels.   The manufacturers of the fuel gels agreed to recall the gels only after the Consumer Product Safety Commission promised it would not show video of the products exploding in a testing lab.  The fuel gels have caused [...]

Firepots are advertised as decorative and functional additions to outdoor spaces.  They are supposed to be attractive accessories to outdoor gatherings as well as act as an insect repellant.  Firepots, and their corresponding fuel gel, are marketed as “people safe” and the “cleanest and safest fuel you can buy.”  However, despite the outward facade of innocuous backyard ornament, users [...]

Thousands of Illinois residents live in mobile home parks, referred to as Manufactured Home Communities.  Illinois government has enacted several laws that govern these parks to ensure a healthful, safe, and enjoyable standard of living.  However, many times owners and managers of these communities neglect their responsibilities.  When this occurs, residents of these communities have remedies. 
The Mobile Home Landlord and [...]

Two Senate bills bypassed the Committee process and could very well make their way to a vote on the Senate floor as early as next week.
SB 2155 is sponsored by Bill Brady (R) Bloomingtion. Brady’s bill proposes to change the causation standard to limit the compensability of claims under the Act. It intends to eliminate [...]

Parking Garage Death Lawsuit Settled for $700,000
DANVILLE – A wrongful death lawsuit filed against the city of Danville in 2006 was settled for $700,000, according to court documents filed earlier this week in Vermilion County Circuit Court.
The lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2006, by the father of Charles Christopher Gaston, 17, who was [...]

By Eric Ferkenhoff
Chicago Tribune Staff Writer
HANOVER PARK — There is little dispute that in the minutes before Eric Stetter died, he was pinned face down on a couch under several Hanover Park police officers and paramedics fighting to cuff his hands and legs.
What is in question is whether Stetter, diagnosed in 1994 with epilepsy, [...]

By Amy McLaughlin
Daily Herald Staff Writer
A Cook County jury awarded John and Debra Krall of Des Plaines $5 million on Wednesday, but John Krall said the money won’t take away the “six years of pure hell” caused when a Des Plaines police car crashed into his wife’s van.
Des Plaines city officials said they were [...]

By: Ana Mendieta
Staff Reporter
Chicago Sun-Times
A Wakegan woman is charging that a manufacturer of household cleaning products exposed her late husband and other employees to cancer-causing agents without providing any protection.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Josefina Aguilar charges that starting in 1989, Hexagon Packaging Corporation, which makes the tarnish remover Tarn-X and the lime remover CLR [...]

By Susan Chandler
Chicago Tribune Staff Writer
The commercials were long a staple of late night Chicago TV.
A woman easily removing heavy tarnish from a sliver tray with a swipe of Tarn-X or clearing calcium deposits from her cloudy coffee pot with a swirl of CLR.
Such miracle cleaning came with warnings, however. Bottles of Tarn-X clearly told [...]

CHICAGO – Defendants associated with formulating, manufacturing and packaging household waxes, polishes and cleaners are accused of exposing their ethnic employees to carcinogenic chemicals in an Oct. 18 complaint (Josefina Aguilar, et al. v. Hexagon Packaging Corp., et al., No. 99L11730, Ill. Cir., [...]

For nearly twenty years, the attorneys at Kupets & DeCaro, P.C. have obtained thousands  of successful recoveries for victims and their families.  Below is a snapshot of some of the firm’s recent  settlements and jury verdicts.
November ‘09
$110,000.00 Settlement
Passenger of car injured when driver lost control of car.
October ‘09
$465,000.00 Settlement
Non-death motor vehicle accident.
July ‘09
$250,000.00 [...]