Congratulations to Jeff Zehe on an outstanding career. As a founding member of NZA 27 years ago, Jeff built the firm from the ground up. His practice was diverse and ranged from prosecuting massive property damage losses and defending local governments in high profile civil rights and employment matters. He was a mentor and friend […]
NZA recently obtained a favorable resolution for its clients in a catastrophic injury case that was set to begin trial in Lake County, Indiana. NZA had been retained by several excess insurance carriers when the defendant, a crane inspection company, and its broker requested that the firm take over as trial counsel on the case, […]
Attorneys Vaughn Drozd of Nielsen, Zehe & Antas, P.C. (Chicago, IL) and Lauren Farrington of Sanders & Williams, LLC (Birmingham, AL) recently obtained a plaintiff verdict from a jury in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County – Birmingham Division (AL). The case involved a defective city-owned tree that fell on top of a historic church […]
NZA obtained a not guilty jury verdict in a failure to diagnose melanoma claim brought against a dermatologist. The case was tried in front of Judge Joan Powell in the Circuit Court of Cook County where NZA asserted a lack of causation as its main defense. At the close of Plaintiff’s case in chief, NZA […]
Nielsen Zehe & Antas PC is proud to announce that Brian Bailey, Vaughn Drozd , Mike Griffin, and Laura Young have all been elected Partners effective January 1, 2024.
Kyle Fleck reports that the Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, affirmed judgment for our engineer client based on the economic loss doctrine. The Court found that a plaintiff is unable to recover for purely economic losses in a claim sounding in tort. The Economic Loss Doctrine applies to damages for the cost of repair […]
Jim Hoey with assistance from Jack Murphy secured a defense verdict in a case involving alleged misappropriation of trade secrets. We represented an engineering firm accused of misappropriating engineering surveys, plats and drawings prepared by another engineering firm – the plaintiff – for the original planned development. The original developer did not proceed with the […]
Jim Hoey and Jack Murphy obtained Summary Judgment in Will County for a school district and physical education teacher. The case was filed by a student and her mother who alleged that the defendants consciously exposed the student to a substantial risk and that the physical activity required of the student caused serious bodily harm. […]
Plaintiff’s counsel filed a Complaint and then an Amended Complaint in Cook County alleging that the then 15-year-old student fell during gym class in an alleyway next to the school which was in disrepair. When the plaintiff reached majority, plaintiff’s counsel filed the complaint nearly two years later, relying on the Illinois’ 2-year personal injury […]
Dominick Savaiano and Betsy Grover achieved a hard-earned victory in a month-long jury trial in Cook County, Illinois, where the plaintiff asked the jury for $52 million. The case involved a claim that negligence by their clients resulted in a neurological injury to a child, causing profound brain damage and spastic quadriplegia. Dom and Betsy […]