Injured at Milwaukee Summerfest or a Wisconsin Church Festival? You may not be able to sue the operator for their negligence due to Wisconsin’s Recreational Immunity Law.

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It’s almost summertime in Milwaukee, which means people from across the state, country, and even the world will travel to visit the wide array of music, cultural, religious, and ethnic festivals the city has to offer. As patrons enjoy the food and festival atmosphere, most rarely take time to think about the possibility of injury, [...]

Back to Basics – Pedestrian Fatalities on the Rise

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On a busy morning in downtown Milwaukee, the streets bustle with traffic and walkers, bikers, and runners take advantage of the spring weather. Inevitably, motor vehicle traffic accidents regularly occur; but you may be surprised that 13% of traffic accident fatalities in the United States involve pedestrian victims and 9.1% in Wisconsin specifically. Although all [...]

Bill, a client’s experience

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Navigating Wisconsin’s Appellate Courts

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Trial Courts Trials typically have about a fifty percent satisfaction rate: there is always a party that wins, and there is always a party that loses. The losing party has the right to appeal. Some cases are better suited for appeal than others. To determine which cases are best suited to appeal, it is important [...]

The Increased-Litigation Fallacy

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A common misperception about our legal system is that too many injury cases are clogging up the courts. The reality is that the number of personal injury cases in Wisconsin has been steadily decreasing over the last decade – from 8,581 cases filed in 2001 down to 6,778 personal injury cases filed last year. And [...]

Is your first meeting with an “investigator”? Beware

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If you’ve been injured in car accident that’s not your fault, you already know that almost immediately your mailbox is stuffed with information from many different law firms trying to get you to call them.    We see lawyers in TV ads bragging about how much money they get for their clients.   With all that junk [...]

Attorney Thadd Llaurado has Article Published in Nationally Distributed Trial Magazine

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Danger on the Road Trial Magazine February 2013, Volume 49, No. 2 Discovery issues in distracted driving cases  Thadd J. Llaurado The mix of driving, texting, and other distractions often ends in tragedy—and it usually leaves a trail of electronic evidence behind. Woody Allen observed that 80 percent of life is showing up,1 but driving [...]

One More Reason to Act Quickly After An Accident

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Traffic cameras seem to be everywhere — recording vehicles coming and going — and sometimes even catching an accident. Videos can help answer questions about who was at fault, but many of these traffic cam videos are overwritten in a relatively short time period. The freeway traffic cams around Milwaukee, for example, are only saved [...]

G.M. and D.M v. Rural Mutual Insurance Company, Dane County Case – Automobile accident – jury verdict

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Milwaukee Personal Injury attorney Thadd Llaurado and Keith Stachowiak recently received a Dane County Jury verdict in the amount of $1,473,036.68 for a 75-year-old man and in the amount of $261,923.08 for his 73-year-old wife, both of whom were injured in a rollover of a pickup truck driven by defendant Rural Insurance Company’s insured. On [...]

The FDA and Transvaginal Mesh Approval

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the regulatory agency charged with overseeing the safety of medical devices, has known about the potential for risks involved with transvaginal mesh for sixteen years. On November 15, 1996, the FDA gave the green light to Boston Scientific to market ProteGen, the first transvaginal surgical mesh implant or sling, [...]