partners Charles Armbruster, Roy Dripps, Michael Blotevogel were recently selected for inclusion in the 2022 Illinois Super Lawyers list. Being named to a Super Lawyers list is a prestigious distinction that only 5% of attorneys in...
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Month: August 2021
ADWB Partner Honored As Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyer
partner Charles Armbruster recently named one of the Top 10 Nursing Home lawyers by The National Trial Lawyers: Top 10 Nursing Home Trial Lawyers Association. This honor recognizes decades of work representing the families and residents...
ADWB Obtains $3.15 Million In Verdicts Against Railroad And Supervisor
partners Charles Armbruster and Michael Blotevogel secured verdicts of $3.14 million and $10,000 against Union Pacific Railroad Company and a supervisor who injured their client in five separate workplace violence or harassment incidents....
ADWB Partners Get Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals To Reverse Summary Judgment Entered Against FELA Plaintiff
partners Roy Dripps, Michael Blotevogel and Charles Armbruster were able to convince the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a summary judgment that had been entered against a railroad employee in the Eastern District of Kentucky...
ADWB Stops Jones Act Employer From Using Forum Selection Clause Against Injured Employee
partner Roy Dripps convinced a judge in the Southern District of Illinois that a forum selection clause frequently used by an employer to guide venue to the Southern District of Indiana was unenforceable. As a result, the employee, who...
ADWB Wins Punitive Damages Against Trucking Company For Wrongful Discharge
partners Charles Armbruster and Michael Blotevogel secured a verdict of $892,600.00 on behalf of their client against Beelman Truck Co. The verdict included $875,000 in punitive damages. The jury found that Beelman fired its employee after...
ADWB Defeats Defendants’ Motions In Police Brutality Case
partners Michael Blotevogel and Charles Armbruster recently defeated pre-trial motions by a municipality and its police officers in a police brutality case that was captured by video footage. The Central District of Illinois court agreed...
ADWB Partners Defeat Doctor’s Motion For Summary Judgment In Wrongful Death Case
partners Michael Blotevogel and Charles Armbruster recently defeated pre-trial motions by a doctor in a medical malpractice case in which their client's husband died one day after the husband went to an emergency room and told the doctor...
ADWB Partners Honored As Super Lawyers
partners Roy Dripps and Michael Blotevogel were recently selected to the 2021 Illinois Super Lawyers list, joining partner Charles Armbruster. Being named to a Super Lawyers list is a prestigious distinction...
Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Affirms FELA Verdict Obtained By ADWB Partners
partners Charles Armbruster and Michael Blotevogel secured a $525,000 verdict in the Central District of Illinois for a railroad employee who was injured attempting to lift railroad ties that had fallen onto a public road. The employee...