Sean C. Burke

How Sean Burke Law Is Different From Other Law Firms

If you’re injured because someone or some company wasn’t acting safely, the injuries can leave you in pain feeling lonely and frustrated. The person or business that harmed you won’t admit that they did anything wrong. You don’t know which doctors to see to get better. Insurance investigators call asking personal questions and then deny your claim.

If you’re seriously injured, I work to make those worries go away. I deal with the insurance companies for you. I know how to hold wrongdoers responsible. If they refuse to fix your harms and losses, then I AM ready for trial to win the compensation you deserve.

Unlike some law firms that sign up hundreds of cases and treat clients like a number, i work with a small number of seriously injured clients. I give each client personal attention from start to finish.

You will know that I take your case seriously.

Who Sean Helps

I have successfully represented people from all walks of life including:

• $1.865 million settlement for a man whose foot was
  crushed by an 7,500 pound cargo pallet being transported by a forklift
  operator.
• $3.0 million settlement for the parents and brother of a four-year old girl who died from an untreated bacterial infection the day after her doctors released her from the hospital
• $650,000 settlement for a woman who underwent surgery after a rear-end car crash increased the pressure on a spinal nerve in her neck
• $250,000 settlement for a woman who tore the rotator cuff in her shoulder when a work van side-swiped her
• $2.3 million settlement for the family of a woman who died during routine surgery to remove her gallbladder because the surgeon injected gas into her liver that stopped her heart
• $365,000 settlement for a woman rear-ended by an 18-wheel tractor trailer
• $375,000 settlement for a man who was not warned about the risk for total hearing loss before his ear surgery
• $1.6 million jury verdict for an elderly woman who lost the use of her lower leg and foot after knee replacement surgery
• $2.5 million settlement for an elevator mechanic injured on a construction site; recovery for a woman who suffered nerve damage in her hand during a routine CT scan;
• A settlement worth $3.5 million for a window washer whose leg was amputated after a 30-foot fall
• $500,000 for the adult children of a man who died from a bleeding ulcer that his doctors failed to diagnose

I have also helped numerous patients who have suffered nerve injuries during elbow, back and neck surgery.

Sean’s Experience

I am a trial lawyer with more than 25 years of trial experience. One year after law school, I went to work as a prosecutor for the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office in Waukegan, IL where I tried felony cases ranging from drug deliveries to murder. As a prosecutor, I loved the trial work and how my job gave me the chance to help people harmed by serious crimes.

After five years, I left the prosecutor’s office to join a highly-regarded medical malpractice law firm in Chicago where I continued to try cases and help people harmed by others who didn’t take safety seriously. I later started my own law firm and I have worked to help the seriously injured ever since. I have won large verdicts and settlements in difficult cases involving medical malpractice, construction negligence and automobile crashes.

I have received Martindale Hubbell’s AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating, the highest rating available. I have been named an Illinois Super Lawyer each year since 2012.

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