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Contact:
Jack Samuel Ring
Education:
B.B.A. -University of Miami
J.D.- University of Miami
Rating: Martindale-Hubbell - AV Rating
Professional Concentration:
Personal Injury in the areas of:
---Product Liability
---Medical Malpractice
---Automobile and Railroad Accident
---Aviation Accidents
---Premises Liability
---Construction Accidents
Admissions:
Supreme Court of the United States of America
United States Court of Appeals - Seventh Circuit
United States Claims Court
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Trial Bar
Illinois State Bar
Supreme Court of Florida
Supreme Court of Illinois
Legal Associations:
American Bar Association (ABA)
American Bar Association (ABA) - Section of Litigation
Association of Trial Lawyers of American (ATLA)
Association of Trial Lawyers of American (ATLA) - President's Council
Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA)
Florida Bar Association (FBA)
Chicago Bar Association (CBA)
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA)
-_Medical
Negligence Committee, Civil
---Practice & Rules Committee;
former
---member of Board of Managers
The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers (AFTL)
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ)
American Inns of Court (AIC)
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) - Rank - Advocate
American Arbitration Association (AAA)
Community Involvement:
MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
MEMBER OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
FORMER MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS- LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION
FOUNDERS AWARD FOR THE ANNUAL NBPA DINNER-CHAIRMAN OF LEGAL DIVISION,
NATIONAL
BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION 1989-1996
Previous and Current Affiliations:
Jack Samuel Ring & Associates, Ltd. (Principal)
1968 to present
Leonard M. Ring & Associates, Ltd. (Associate)
1959 to 1968
University
Affiliations:
University of Miami
President's Council
University of
Miami
School of Law
The Miami Dean's Circle Committee
Northwestern
University
School of Law
Moot Court - Judge
ITT-Kent Law
School
Former Member - President's Council
Legal Teaching
and Education:
Author of legal articles and lecturer at seminars for professional
and educational meetings and associations.
Forensic Center For Traumatic Stress
Board Chairman - Promoting the highest standards of those involved
in litigation of Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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.
As indicated in ATLA's "Trial", January,
1999,
Schlunk is still considered a recent case.
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Significant
United States and Illinois Supreme Court Cases (cont.):
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.
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 years.
Over sixty percent (60%) of the cases received by the lawfirm are
from other attorneys, so referrals of Personal Injury matters are
naturally invited. The lawfirm of Jack Samuel Ring & Associates,
Ltd. routinely handles complex Personal Injury, Wrongful Deatrh,
and Medical Malpractice matters. The lawfirm has obtained settlements
and/or verdicts in cases in the millions of dollars for our clients.
A representative
sample follows:
Jack Samuel Ring and Edward R. Moor 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.
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