Our client was the family of a young man who died in the hospital three days after undergoing spinal fusion. His condition was stable, but a short time after receiving some pain medication, he suffered a severe reaction and died within three days. The pain medication was not administered properly, his condition was not monitored, and hospital staff did not respond to wife's concern that her husband was having trouble breathing.

While driving northbound on Highway 21 near Glenwood, Minn., our client's vehicle was struck broadside by a driver who failed to yield struck our client's vehicle broadside. She was airlifted to the Twin Cities with severe injuries to her left arm and lacerations to her head. Advanced trauma services were required to repair the skin torn from the left forearm.

Our client, a minister, was injured while playing basketball on a youth retreat. The property owner failed to properly maintain the wooden gym floor and as a result the gym floor had buckled. Our client suffered a severe leg fracture and other injuries when she ran over the buckled portion of the gym floor.

Our clients' 27 year-old son was riding as a passenger in a friend's car. He was killed when the driver lost control of the car and went off the road. The victim was a single young man who lived with his parents at the time of the accident. He left behind no wife or children dependant on his income. However, Attorney Paul Schweiger argued that the victim's next-of-kin were entitled to compensatory damages for "loss of relationship"--a claim that is historically very difficult to receive compensation for.

A semi truck driver from North Carolina pulled his rig to the side of a two lane highway on a bright summer afternoon. He stopped to make a cell phone call, activating the flashers on his semi. The motorcyclist approached the truck and suddenly the truck pulled out and across the road to make a U-turn. The motorcyclist had no time to react and hit the side of the semi. The motorcyclist was killed immediately.

Our client was a passenger in a pickup truck that was hit by a Peterbilt truck at an intersection. The truck had come to a rolling stop for the stop sign and was traveling 5-10 mph into the intersection. The pickup our client was riding in was speeding and the driver did not have time to react to avoid the collision and ran directly into the side of the semi truck. Rescue personnel used the "jaws of life" to remove the roof of the truck to access our client. He was taken by helicopter to North Memorial Hospital due to his serious injuries. He suffered head injuries, femur fracture, collarbone fracture, multiple rib fractures that punctured his lung, foot and toe fractures, a bruised liver and a laceration to his leg that required staples.

The pick-up our client was driving drifted off the shoulder and rolled over. She was seriously injured when the roof collapsed and is now a quadriplegic. GM settled the case rather than argue crashworthiness in a rollover accident. William Bongard obtained a settlement in the amount of $700,000.

Our client was delivering newspapers along his paper route. While standing outside his truck taking papers from the bed, he was struck by a vehicle driven off the road by an intoxicated minor.

A 26-year-old Minneapolis mother was on her way to work early one morning when a distracted driver crossed the center line and caused a horrible head-on collision.  The impact was so severe it immediately fractured her ankle, among other injuries.  Several ankle surgeries later, she is trying to get back to a normal life.