When a client’s own insurance company made a “low ball” offer to compensate the client for damages arising from a serious car accident caused by another driver, FAB Attorneys James End and Bryn Baker filed a lawsuit against the insurance company alleging breach of contract and bad faith. After trial on the underinsured motorist (UIM) claim, a jury awarded past medical bills, past and future pain and suffering, and compensation to the client’s spouse for her loss of society and companionship, for a total award far exceeding the insurance company’s “low ball” offer. FAB continues to litigate the bad faith claim.
FAB Atty. James P. End represented an incarcerated man in an Eighth Amendment excessive force case against a State correctional officer. The trial resulted in a unanimous jury verdict finding that a correctional officer had used excessive force against the client. The jury awarded punitive damages to the client.
A jury awarded past medical bills, past and future loss of earnings, past and future loss of Social Security benefits, as well as past and future pain and suffering to a client represented by FAB Attorneys Thomas C. Lenz and Bryn I. Baker.
On April 8, 2022, FAB Attorney Bryn I. Baker gave a presentation titled “Strategies to Combat Pretrial Client Surveillance” at the Wisconsin Association for Justice’s 2022 Spring Seminar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
FAB attorneys Thomas C. Lenz, James P. End, and Bryn I. Baker recently settled a wrongful death civil rights lawsuit in the Eastern District of Wisconsin for $1.5 million against a Wisconsin state employee who worked at a Wisconsin long term care facility. The plaintiff in the case was the estate of an incompetent adult with a seizure disorder who drowned after he had been left alone in a bathtub.
FAB attorneys James P. End, Alexa C. Bradley, and Bryn I. Baker recently settled a 4th amendment excessive force claim against the City of Waukesha after several police officers clubbed, tased, and punched an unarmed intoxicated man.
On September 15, 2020, FAB Attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht presented “Updates on Current Election Law Issues” to a group of community activists and zoom attendees, along with Dr. Enrique Figueroa.
FAB attorney Alexa Bradley recently published an article for the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog, which analyzes the recent United States Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that Title VII’s prohibition of workplace “sex” discrimination clearly encompasses discrimination based on one’s sexual orientation or transgender status because “homosexuality and transgender status are inextricably bound up with sex.” In her article, Attorney Bradley explains the background and history of Title VII and the landscape of Supreme Court case law interpreting “sex” against which the Bostock decision must be understood. She also details the growing circuit split in our Nation’s federal courts regarding the various interpretations of Title VII’s prohibition of “sex” discrimination that made the issue ripe for the Court’s consideration. Attorney Bradley goes on to analyze the majority opinion and the dissents, and wraps up her article with a few concluding thoughts about where we go from here. Attorney Bradley’s article can be found on the Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog by visiting the following link:
https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2020/07/bostock-v-clayton-county-an-unexpected-victory/.
FAB attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht prepared a review of Restoring the Global Judiciary: Why the Supreme Court Should Rule in U.S. Foreign Affairs by Martin S. Flaherty for the April 2020 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer.
FAB attorney Lawrence G. Albrecht prepared a review of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn for the February 2019 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer.
FAB attorneys represented many tort and personal injury victims in 2017-20, including intersection automobile injury cases, rear-end car accident cases, dog bite cases, insurance bad faith claims, civil theft, and disability insurance matters. Settlement value is particularized to individual cases and depends on many factors. Some of the cases settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars or in excess of one million dollars, but FAB also represents injured people even when the value of the case is more modest.