 The Chicago Brain Injury Law Offices of Elliot Zinger & Associates provide you with experienced and aggressive attorneys who will protect your rights, serve your best interests and represent you with the integrity and professionalism you deserve.
Our firm concentrates in representing persons who have been severely injured or killed as a result of negligence or willful conduct. Elliot R. Zinger & Associates has been involved in many nationally publicized cases and has won many millions of dollars for our clients. We win because we care about our clients and work extremely hard for them. An area of concentration in our firm has been representing both adults and minors who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
Some of our recent cases include a verdict of $1,875,000.00 in the case of Kecala v. Farmer’s Insurance, in which the firm successfully represented a board certified psychiatrist who suffered a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident. The firm also recently settled another brain injury case, Robbins ERISA Litigation, for $1,115,000.00 on behalf of a board certified anesthesiologist who suffered disabling cognitive injuries as a result of medication she was taking to combat the Hepatitis C virus. We this past year also settled a wrongful death claim, Lou v D&R Management, against an area nightclub for over $500,000.00, after the club security personnel removed our client from the club rather than immediately calling 911 for medical assistance. Our firm also obtained a settlement of $1,250,000.00 million dollars in the case of Robinson v. Chicago Housing Authority on behalf of a minor who sustained a brain injury after being struck by a board in her apartment.
Some of the firm’s past and present publicized cases you may recognize from newspaper and television reports. Mr. Zinger was lead trial counsel in the case o f Natkin v. Oprah Winfrey, in which two Chicago area photographers, Paul Natkin and Stephen Green, sued Oprah Winfrey in Federal Court for copyright infringement and the rights to a collection of some 60,000 photographs detailing the history of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In the case, Zinger won what the Federal Judge presiding referred to as a “landmark victory for the rights of photographic artists in America.” The photographers won the rights to allot the contested property in a published summary judgment decision; the remainder of the case was favorably settled several days into the jury trial in the Federal District Court in Chicago.
Elliot Zinger & Associates is currently involved in the representation of the family Kevin Gavin, who was both an honor student and a star athlete at Morgan Park High School in Chicago. In May of 2003, Mr. Gavin was severely beaten on the South Side of Chicago. The beating ultimately resulted in Mr. Gavin’s death. Mr. Gavin’s attacker was convicted in 2006 of First Degree Murder. The City of Chicago is now being sued for the failure of the 911 Center to timely summon police and medical assistance. In July of 2005, the case was prominently featured in a story by Rene Ferguson on the NBC Ten O’ clock News. There is widespread national interest in the issue of response times to citizen 911 calls for emergency assistance. |
