Significant United States and Illinois Supreme Court Cases:

Schlunk v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft, 486 U.S. 694 (1988) Jack Samuel Ring obtained a 9-0 Decision in the U.S. Supreme Court - Decided March 21, 1988. This decision established the principal that Americans who are injured on U.S. soil by products designed and/or manufactured overseas may now be able to serve notice of suit on those foreign designers and manufacturers through their subsidiaries in the United States and thus avoid the Hague Service Convention and the cost and time involved in service of process in a foreign country. Schlunk is still cited for the legal issues decided in this case, worldwide.

Wirth v. Industrial Commission, 57 Ill.2d 475 (1976) Jack Samuel Ring appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court and established that recurrent emotional stress and strain in the workplace can lead to a compensable injury, and that such an injury need not be based merely on physical work.

Soto v.E.W. Bliss Division of Gulf & Western, 452 N.E. 2d 572 (1st Dist.1983) (cert.den.) Affirmed by Illinois Supreme Court. This case reviewed and addressed the entire field of products liability cases.

Recent Case Samples

Jack Samuel Ring, as principal for the firm of Jack Samuel Ring & Associates, Ltd. has continually tried and settled cases for injury victims and their families in the millions of dollars over the past years.

A representative sample follows:

Jack Samuel Ring & Associates, Ltd. has secured a $1,473,500.00 verdict for a man who suffered a drop foot and ulnar nerve injury during surgery to repair hip and pelvic fractures.

Secured a $950,000.00 settlement out of a $1 million dollar policy for the family of a young woman whose Ob-Gyn failed to diagnose a lump under plaintiff's decedent's arm as a regional metastases of melanoma.

Secured a $6 million dollar medical malpractice settlement on the eve of trial for a young girl by establishing a deviation from the standard of care by a noted pediatric cardiac surgeon which resulted in brain damage.

Secured a $2 million dollar settlement (policy limit) for a middle aged woman for deviation from the standard of care by an orthopedic surgeon resulting in loss of a hip. This case continues against other defendants.

$4 million dollar settlement for employees of a brick fabrication plant who suffered lung injuries and death as a result of the exposure to silica sand.

Multi-million dollar settlement for wrongful death of husband and father of three who died as a result of medical malpractice of an anesthesiologist, an internist, a neurologist and a local hospital's failure to diagnose and treat a cerebral bleed in the brain.

$600,000.00 workers' compensation settlement ($400,000.00 plus actual cash value) for a police officer who lost his leg while investigating a fire.

$750,000.00 plus workers' compensation settlement benefit ($380,000.00 plus actual cash value) for a policeman who suffered a fracture complicated by nerve damage to his right arm while making an arrest.

Other trials and settlements have resulted in a million dollar plus settlement for the adult heirs of an elderly couple who died when they were rear-ended by a truck, three quarters of a million dollars for a young woman who suffered post traumatic stress disorder and soft tissue injuries in the crash of a CTA train, three quarters of a million dollars for a truck driver who suffered post traumatic stress disorder and torn ligaments in a crossing accident between his truck and an Amtrack train, one million dollars for an unemployed female, age 62, who suffered post traumatic stress, concussion, fractured ribs and congestive heart failure from which she recovered when rear-ended by a truck in Indiana, $450,000.00 for an elderly woman in a medial malpractice claim for the failure of her physicians to diagnose a spinal cord tumor leading to urinary and fecal incontinence, etc. Jack Samuel Ring has in the past also obtained various verdicts and/or settlements for other claimants and victims of over One Million ($1,000,000.00) Dollars for claims arising from driving accidents, truck and auto collisions, railroad accidents, medical malpractice claims, construction injury claims, product liability claims and environmental claims.

In addition, Jack Samuel Ring has obtained numerous settlements of workers' compensation claims in the high six figure range.

The following are some recent settlements obtained:

1.	Obtained $2 million dollar settlemnt for a minor against a Hospital Defendant, whose medical condition was mis-diagnosed resulting in additional, unnecessary medical care, which did not result in his death.
2.	Obtained a $875,000 settlement in a hospital medical malpractice case against the United States of America for injuries sustained by an unwed mother whose child was stillborn.
3.	Obtained a $500,000 settlement for a plaintiff who fractured a bone in her right wrist which occurred as a result of an automobile accident, which were the policy limits of an automobile policy.