Plaintiff's Personal Injury Case Experience

  • $275,000 for a young male driver involved in a two car head-on collision on a rural highway,
    where the defense initially contended that the drivers, who knew one another, had been “playing
    chicken.”

  • $250,000 for a bicyclist who was hit by a car on a highway.

  • $150,000 in settlements for the driver and passengers of a van struck by a drunk  driver.

  • A confidential settlement amount for a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted  by her uncle, a
    minister.

  • $62,500 for a bicyclist who was hit by a car on a residential street.

  • $72,500 in a Wrongful Death case for a teenage mother, whose 10 month old child died as the
    result of an in-bed “rollover asphyxiation” after she left him in the care of the teenage father
    following the conclusion of a New Years’ Eve party hosted by the child's grandparents.

  • $100,000 for an 8 year old boy whose legs were burned when, while playing with a neighbor’s 10
    year old son around a pile of leaves being burnt in the neighbor’s yard, the 10 year old “soccer
    kicked” a nearby cup containing a mixture of gasoline and 2 cycle engine oil for neighbor’s leaf
    blower, causing spray to flash-ignite and hit the 8 year old.

  • $140,000 for a woman, who was hit by a snowplow while walking through her apartment
    complex's parking lot on her way to work in pre-dawn darkness.

  • $145,000 for an outdoor music festival stage crew worker, who fell from the elevated
    superstructure of the large canopy-covered stage when it collapsed during a sudden windstorm
    due to poor design and inadequate anchoring.

  • $300,000 for an HVAC subcontractor, who fell two floors on a home remodeling jobsite when the
    general-contractor-installed temporary stairway he was climbing collapsed.
I have been certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1999.  My initial experience
representing seriously injured people came while associated with a Milwaukee PI firm in the early 1990's.  There, I reviewed
and screened potential medical negligence cases, performed medical and legal research, recruited medical experts, and
took and defended depositions of experts in medicine, nursing, vocational rehabilitation, and economics.  I also
"second-chaired" 2 medical negligence cases to jury verdict, assisted in the handling of cases arising out of construction
accidents, defective products, and sexual assaults, and tried vehicular accident injury cases before juries.

Since then, I have continued to handle selected personal injury cases on behalf of injured clients, including some tried
before juries.  Over the years, I have obtained favorable settlements for most personal injury clients without the need for a
trial, sometimes in cases where proving negligence and/or the applicability of insurance coverage was very challenging and
other attorneys had declined or terminated representation.  Some particularly favorable money damages recoveries were as
follows:
Attorney James J. Connolly
Connolly Law Offices, LLC
Pettibone Mansion
2051 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Phone: 414-933-7174
E-mail: connollylaw@prodigy.net

  • Certified as Civil Trial Specialist
    by National Board of Trial
    Advocacy

  • Member of Wisconsin Defense
    Counsel

  • Member of Wisconsin
    Association of Criminal Defense
    Lawyers

Call 414-933-7174 to schedule an initial appointment to meet with me in person to discuss your personal
injury claim.   If necessary, a hospital or home visit can be arranged.   There is no fee unless I recover
money damages for you.