A DeKalb County jury entered a record verdict for almost $6,000,000 on Tuesday afternoon for a 33 year-old Winnebago man injured when the aerial lift he was working on failed causing him to fall 20-25 feet. In September 2015, 29 year-old Jeremy Heckelsmiller was hired...
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Pfaff, Gill & Ports Ltd. Sponsors the 2019 Western Amateur Golf Tournament
PGP is very glad to be a sponsor of one of the world's great amateur golf tournaments this summer at Point O' Woods Golf and Country Club in Benton Harbor, MI. This will be the 117th playing of The Western Amateur tournament and the forty-first time that Point O'...
Pfaff, Gill & Ports Ltd. Sponsors Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund Golf Classic
Pfaff, Gill & Ports is proud to again contribute to the success of the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund. We encourage you all to do the same, it is an excellent charity! Over the past 30 years, the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund has provided high school...
Tragic Wrongful Death $12,500,000 Settlement
A 35-year-old electrician learned he had a cancerous lesion in his right kidney in March 2016. He was referred to a urologist who told him and his wife that he required survival removal of the kidney, a nephrectomy. The urologist told them the cancer was Stage I, it...
Keep Families Together – End Child Separation
On June 19, 2018, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) released the following public statement denouncing the separation of children from their families at the U.S. border: is honored to be an IATL Fellow and fully...
A Note from Bruce Pfaff
Pfaff, Gill & Ports Joins in Call to Preserve Funding for Legal Services Corporation
The American College of Trial Lawyers Issues Statement on Latest Round to Defund Legal Services Corporation Defunding LSC Would Reduce Access to Justice To Most Endangered Citizens https://t.co/GDiZTyknSU -- ACTL (@actl) March 6, 2018 The American College of Trial...
Michael T. Gill and Matthew D. Ports Named to 2018 Illinois Super Lawyers List
We're happy to share that and Matthew D. Ports were named to the 2018 Illinois Super Lawyers list in the Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff practice area. This is an exclusive list, recognizing no more than five percent of...
Bruce R. Pfaff named one of TOP TEN lawyers in ILLINOIS
Bruce R. Pfaff of , has again been named one of the Top 10 lawyers in Illinois by Super Lawyers. Bruce has been honored to be one of the Top Ten lawyers in Illinois twice in the past 8 years (2011). This is an incredible honor considering...
Two Worker Deaths in Pekin Result in $6 Million Settlement
The deaths of two downstate Illinois workers have resulted in a $6 million settlement to their estates.On June 24, 2014, Frank Rosebur, 37, and another employee attempted to clean a rail car containing agricultural product residue. Shortly after entering from the top...