Kupets and DeCaro is a Chicago Personal Injury law firm that represents people, not corporations.
Our practice consists of Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, and Victim’s Rights Cases.
Kupets and DeCaro is a Chicago Personal Injury law firm that represents people, not corporations.
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 [...]
The law firm of Kupets & DeCaro, P.C., provides this quick reference guide to give our clients and friends a brief overview of what to expect in pursuing a claim for injuries in Illinois. This is not a comprehensive review of all the rights or limitations available. It should not substitute for the direct advice [...]
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