A minor child sustained pelvic injuries while a passenger on her friend's go-cart. The driver lost control of the go-cart and struck a tree on the side of the go-cart that our client was sitting on.

Defendant homeowners hosted a 16th birthday party for their daughter at a farm located in rural Wisconsin. The party was attended by many teenagers--including our client. During the party, an ATV was brought to the farm by a neighbor. Many of the teens at the party were operating the ATV. At one point during the evening, the homeowner instructed the teens that the ATV was to be parked. Yet, the keys were not taken out of the ATV nor was it banished from the premises. Later that evening, one of the girls started the ATV and gave a ride to our client. They drove away from the party until they reached the end of the road, then turned around to head back to the party. Another teen had taken a motorcycle from the farm which did not have a working headlight. He was going to look for the girls on the ATV. In the dark, there was a collision between the ATV and the motorcycle and our client, a passenger on the ATV, was seriously injured.

Our client sustained a broken heel while at work. During the initial surgery to repair the heel, which was very successful, a drain was placed in the client’s foot to minimize the possibility of infection. The drain should have been removed in two to three days. However, our client was told to come back for a follow up in 14 days and leave the dressing undisturbed on his written discharge instructions. The client’s doctor admitted that his original discharge orders were wrong but argued that he told the nurses and our client that a two- to three-day follow-up was needed. Yet, none of the doctor’s records reflected this alleged verbal order. A nurse also testified that if something had changed, she would have amended the patient’s chart.

Our client, the owner of a vending service company, was pinned to the rear bumper of his vehicle when it was hit by an out of control vehicle. The defendant made a right turn on a red light at an intersection that was specifically marked "no right turn on red". Our client was facing his truck and was pinned against his truck bumper by the front bumper of the vehicle that hit him. His right leg was crushed from the knee down as a result of this pinching. He also received injuries to his right shoulder, right arm and neck when he was slammed into the rear door of his truck.

Our client's father had gone to a cabin in Northern Wisconsin. He was returning from the cabin riding as a passenger in rural Wisconsin. The driver pulled out to cross the highway from a side road and didn't see an oncoming vehicle. The two vehicles collided and our client's father sustained traumatic head injuries and internal injuries. He was transported by helicopter to North Memorial Hospital but died shortly after the accident.

Our client underwent surgery to prevent a cancerous bladder condition.  According to his surgeon, the surgery was a success and he was released from the hospital 8 days later. Approximately three weeks after the surgery, our client was re-admitted with severe fever and vomiting. CT scans were obtained and showed that a laparotomy pad or sponge had been left inside our client's body cavity during the original surgery.

While attending a granddaughter's lacrosse game in Prior Lake, another motorist in the parking lot pinned our client’s legs between her own car bumper and the rear bumper of the inattentive motorist backing out of a parking spot. Serious vascular damage was done to our client’s lower leg, necessitating the help of vascular surgeons.

Our client was on her way to work one morning on Interstate 94. She stopped behind other traffic and saw a vehicle approaching her from the rear that didn’t look like it was slowing down. There was no place for her to move out of the way and she was rear-ended by this vehicle that was traveling about 50 mph.

Our client, an officer with the Bloomington Police Department had pulled a vehicle over to the side of the road for a traffic violation.  His emergency lights were activated and his squad car was pulled in behind the traffic violator's vehicle. He was sitting in his squad car writing the traffic violator a ticket.  Suddenly and without warning, his squad car was rear-ended by a vehicle that was traveling approximately 40 mph.  The force of the impact caused the patrol car to collide into the rear of the stopped vehicle. Our client was thrown forward and then backward, he struck his head on the barrier inside his patrol car.  According the police report, the at-fault driver was driving inattentively and did not slow or stop for the police vehicle. 

Robert Brabbit represented the family of a man that was killed in a car crash. The family lost a beloved son and brother in the crash. The decedent was a passenger in a friend’s vehicle. The driver had been drinking before the crash and had been chased by the police but “lost them.”  The driver lost control of the vehicle, it left the roadway and hit a tree. The passenger was thrown from the vehicle and died. The driver of the vehicle left the scene to avoid being arrested.