Chicago Personal Injury Practice Areas

After a serious accident, medical mistake, act of abuse, or preventable injury, it can be hard to know what type of lawyer you need. Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC represents injured people and families in Chicago, Arlington Heights, and throughout Illinois. Our team handles a wide range of personal injury, medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, workplace injury, and wrongful death cases.

This page is designed to help you find the practice area that best matches your situation. If you are unsure where your case fits, call Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC at (312) 243-9922. We can review the facts, explain possible options, and help you understand whether a civil injury claim may be available.

Personal Injury Lawyers Serving Chicago and Illinois

Most injury cases start with the same basic question: did someone else’s careless, reckless, unsafe, or intentional conduct cause harm? The answer may depend on police reports, medical records, witness statements, safety rules, insurance coverage, expert opinions, photographs, video footage, and the timing of the claim.

Our attorneys work to identify the responsible parties, preserve evidence, calculate damages, and pursue compensation for medical expenses, lost income, pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, and other losses allowed by Illinois law. Some cases involve one careless driver. Others involve hospitals, nursing homes, property owners, employers, trucking companies, manufacturers, public entities, or institutions that failed to protect vulnerable people.

Accident and Injury Cases We Handle

The categories below describe many of the cases our firm handles. Some claims overlap more than one practice area. For example, a crash may involve a negligent driver, a commercial vehicle, a defective product, and a wrongful death claim. A hospital injury may involve both medical malpractice and catastrophic damages. A nursing home case may involve neglect, abuse, medical negligence, and financial exploitation.

Motor Vehicle and Transportation Accidents

Vehicle crashes can cause broken bones, traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, internal organ damage, burns, amputations, permanent pain, emotional trauma, and death. Our firm represents people injured in car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, e-bike and e-scooter accidents, and public transit accidents.

Transportation cases often require fast investigation. Video may disappear, vehicles may be repaired, witnesses may become difficult to locate, and insurance companies may start building their defense immediately. Commercial truck, bus, rideshare, delivery, and public transit cases can also involve special rules and multiple insurance policies.

Premises Liability and Unsafe Property Claims

Property owners, businesses, landlords, managers, and maintenance companies may be responsible when unsafe conditions injure visitors, tenants, customers, residents, or workers. Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC handles slip and fall accidents, premises liability claims, dog bite injuries, and swimming pool and drowning cases.

These cases may involve wet floors, broken stairs, poor lighting, unsafe sidewalks, inadequate security, code violations, dangerous animals, defective railings, unguarded pools, or a failure to warn about hazards. A strong claim often depends on showing that the responsible party knew or should have known about the danger and failed to fix it in time.

Medical Malpractice and Birth Injury Claims

Patients rely on doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers, and other healthcare providers to meet accepted medical standards. When preventable errors cause harm, the claim may involve medical malpractice, birth injury, emergency room negligence, surgical negligence, medication errors, delayed diagnosis, radiology mistakes, anesthesia errors, or failure to treat a serious condition.

Medical malpractice cases are evidence-heavy. They usually require medical record review, expert analysis, careful timing, and proof that the provider’s conduct caused injury. Families should not assume that a bad outcome was unavoidable simply because a hospital or doctor says so.

Nursing Home Abuse, Sexual Abuse, and Institutional Negligence

Some of the most serious injury cases involve vulnerable people harmed by institutions or people in positions of trust. Our firm represents residents and families in nursing home abuse and neglect cases involving falls, pressure sores, medication errors, malnutrition, dehydration, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and financial exploitation.

Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC also represents survivors in sexual assault and sexual abuse lawsuits. These claims may involve schools, churches, employers, healthcare providers, youth organizations, treatment centers, detention facilities, property owners, or other institutions that failed to prevent abuse or respond properly to warning signs.

Workplace and Construction Injuries

Work injuries may involve workers’ compensation benefits, third-party injury claims, unsafe equipment, negligent contractors, construction site hazards, or dangerous jobsite practices. Our attorneys handle workers compensation claims and construction accident cases.

In some workplace cases, an injured worker may have both a workers’ compensation claim and a separate lawsuit against a party other than the employer. That can happen when a subcontractor, property owner, driver, manufacturer, or another company contributed to the injury.

Catastrophic Injuries and Wrongful Death

Severe injuries can change every part of a person’s life. We handle catastrophic injury cases, traumatic brain injury claims, spinal injuries, burns, internal organ injuries, paralysis, amputations, permanent disability, and cases involving long-term care needs.

When negligence causes death, surviving family members may need to pursue a wrongful death claim. These cases can involve funeral expenses, grief, loss of financial support, loss of companionship, and the many practical consequences that follow a preventable death.

How We Evaluate a Potential Case

Every case is different. During an initial review, our team may consider what happened, where it happened, who may be responsible, what injuries were suffered, what medical care was required, whether insurance applies, and how Illinois filing deadlines may affect the claim.

Important evidence may include photographs, incident reports, medical records, police reports, witness names, insurance letters, employment records, facility records, repair invoices, surveillance video, text messages, emails, and prior complaints. If you have documents or photos, keep them. Do not assume that the other side will preserve evidence for you.

Why Families Contact Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC

Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC has represented injured clients in Chicago and throughout Illinois since 1990. Our attorneys understand how serious injuries affect families physically, financially, and emotionally. We also understand that many people are dealing with hospitals, insurance companies, employers, facilities, or corporate defendants for the first time.

Our goal is to give clients clear guidance, practical support, and strong legal representation. We pursue cases with preparation and attention to detail, and we explain the process so clients know what to expect.

Talk to a Chicago Injury Lawyer

If you were injured, lost a loved one, or suspect that abuse, neglect, malpractice, or unsafe conduct caused harm, contact Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC. You can also review our verdicts and settlements to learn more about past results. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome, because every case depends on its own facts.

Call Sexner Injury Lawyers LLC at (312) 243-9922 or contact us online to discuss your situation.