2018-L-6481 (Cook County, Illinois)
CGW was retained to defend an indoor soccer indoor soccer facility. facility in a premises liability case involving a 250lb gate that fell off the wall and landed on a five-year old boy. The Plaintiffs retained a forensic engineer, who opined that the facility should have implemented a preventative maintenance program to discover deterioration in the concrete that caused the anchors to fail. Plaintiffs asked for more than $2.8 million at trial related to a femur fracture requiring two surgeries, ongoing post-traumatic stress disorder, subsequent hospitalizations and a loss of future earning capacity.
Attorneys Jessica Biagi and Chloe Polo took the case to trial, and showed that there was no way the sports facility could have notice of any defective condition in the gate. After deliberating for less than 80 minutes, the jury agreed and awarded a full defense verdict to the soccer facility.
