Jim Wideikis wins Business Interruption claim

Jim Wideikis of Costello Ginex & Wideikis just obtained summary judgment, completely protecting his client in a high stakes lawsuit with seven-figure damage exposure and potential punitive damages, arising from losses caused by an international phishing fraud operation.

Dan Costello and Shipra Mehta won summary judgment on a traffic construction case with demands totaling over $75 million for six plaintiffs in the Circuit Court of Cook County. The case involves 24 separate construction defendants on an interstate rebuild where a commercial vehicle flipped over; killing or significantly injuring all of the passengers in the vehicle.

Plaintiff was volunteering to help a workout facility relocate their business when he fell off a 20+ foot ladder, injuring himself. He sued the workout facility, alleging negligence and claimed an owed duty under various legal principles. Among other claims, plaintiff claimed that the workout facility was negligent in failing to coordinate the relocation work in an appropriate manner and provided him with a defective ladder.

Plaintiff was walking to her place of employment at a strip mall in Indiana, where she alleged that she tripped and fell on rocks that were displaced from a large decorative rock bed. Plaintiff sued the business and property owner alleging negligence and premises liability counts. Brian Brenn took up defense of the property owner, and was skeptical of the circumstances of the fall. He aimed to set the case up for a motion for summary judgment and took multiple depositions with this in mind.

Dan Costello has been tapped by the CLM to be a task force co-chair in CLM’s “Preventing Nuclear Verdicts: A Virtual Series.” Dan is one of only three attorneys across the country, along with Jerry Hamilton and Robert Tyson, to be speaking in this series.