Firm News

Personal Injury Results The Firm recovered over Four Million Dollars in personal injury settlements, verdicts and judgments during the month of June. The cases involved a federal court action for product liability; a Will County nursing home negligence action; multiple Cook County premises liability actions and a catastrophic trucking crash that took place in western […](continue reading)

Personal Injury Results The Firm settled personal injury claims during the month of April in the amount of $2,442,500.00. Cases ranged from vehicle crashes, negligence in an assisted living facility, slip and fall at a big box retailer, dog bite and pharmacy malpractice. Business Litigation Results The Firm settled a highly contested partnership litigation, involving […](continue reading)

Collins Law Firm Year in Review Happy New Year and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2024! We secured many millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for our clients in 2023 and hope to provide the same outstanding representation to all our clients in 2024. As a result of our work, our firm […](continue reading)

Attorney Shawn Collins Selected as a Law 360 Environmental MVP for 2023 Shawn Collins has been chosen as a 2023 Environmental MVP by Law 360 due to his work on the Sterigenics litigation in Cook County. IL. Shawn served as a co-lead of the Plaintiffs Executive Committee in the In re Willowbrook Ethylene Oxide Litigation, […](continue reading)

We are proud to announce that our $363 million verdict in Kamuda v. Sterigenics U.S. LLC, et al., has been named the number one jury verdict among all practice areas in Illinois in 2022 by Top Verdict. Congratulations to Collins Law partners Shawn Collins and Edward Manzke and associate Margaret Galka for their work on […](continue reading)

Partner Shawn Collins is featured in an interview in Lawyer Monthly magazine this month. Below is an excerpt from the article and the link to the full article. "My Legal Life: Shawn Collins" Leading the Charge Against America’s Biggest Polluters Instances of harmful pollution and ecological disasters have grown unsettlingly commonplace in the US – […](continue reading)

Personal Injury Results The Firm settled a case for an elderly client who tripped and fell on a crack in the pavement of her patio at her townhome. The crack had been present for several months when she tripped and fell, fracturing a vertebrae in her spine requiring surgery. The case settled for $350,000. The […](continue reading)

Personal Injury Results The Firm settled a medical malpractice case against a plastic surgeon for a confidential settlement on behalf of the family of a woman who suffered lidocaine toxicity and cardiac arrest, causing her death following a liposuction procedure. The Firm’s Personal Injury team resolved a $250,000 policy limits case pre-suit on behalf of […](continue reading)

Personal Injury Results The Firm’s Personal Injury team resolved over $500,000 in settlements during the month of March. The cases ranged from auto accidents to premise liability cases and were all resolved pre-suit. Business Litigation Results The firm won an appeal in the Third District Appellate Court affirming its seven-figure judgment in highly contested real […](continue reading)

Environmental Case Results The Winnebago County Court has recently granted the Firm’s Motion for Class Certification stemming from the Chemtool fire and explosion in Rockton, Illinois. The Court granted class certification to property owners and residents who resided within three miles of the Chemtool facility. The explosion resulted in an enormous chemical fire that created […](continue reading)