Practice Areas Overview

Personal Injury

Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri Personal Injury Defense Lawyers

The law firm of DeFranco & Bradley, P.C., in Swansea, Illinois, defends commercial enterprises and corporate and individual insureds in all types of personal injury cases. The firm represents defendants in personal injury lawsuits throughout southern Illinois and eastern Missouri, including Madison County and St. Clair County in Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri.  Contact the firm to schedule a confidential consultation.

The firm's personal injury defense practice includes:

Construction and Industrial Accidents

A large number of the firm's cases in which plaintiffs claim catastrophic injuries or permanent wage loss claims arise out of construction and industrial accident claims. The firm defends cases involving head injuries, cervical, lumbar, and thoracic spine disc herniations, and injuries to knee, ankle, hip, shoulder, wrist and other joints. The firm handles cases for some of the largest construction contractors and subcontractors in the area and defends cases for the largest steel mill in downstate Illinois. The firm has defended its clients in some of the largest catastrophic injury cases arising out of construction and industrial accidents filed in Madison and St. Clair Counties.

Premises Liability and Security

The firm handles personal injury cases arising out of customer accidents in retail stores, including slip and fall, falling merchandise, wrongful detention and arrest, and failure to provide sufficient security. The firm's president has represented the largest retailer in the world for over twenty years. He successfully obtained a defense verdict in the area's largest claim for punitive damages against a retailer in southern Illinois. The firm has an extensive in-house research database on premises liability and security cases, which it uses to efficiently and effectively defend such cases.

Motor Vehicle Accidents

The firm defends truck tractor-trailer, commercial motor vehicle, and personal motor vehicle collision cases. The firm's vice president has developed an efficient and effective manner of defending low-impact, soft-tissue motor vehicle collision cases in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Madison County, and St. Clair County.

Professional Malpractice

The firm defends a wide variety of professional malpractice personal injury cases, including cases alleging medical, engineering design, architecture, and pharmacy malpractice. The firm represents one of the largest pharmacy chains in the area and has tried to defense verdict cases against orthopedic surgeons, pharmacists, engineers, and other professionals.

Product Liability

The firm defends manufacturers and retailers of products in negligent design, strict product liability, breach of warranty, and negligent manufacture personal injury cases. The firm has handled cases involving coal processing machinery, punch presses, consumer products, coal mine vehicles, lawn mowers, bicycles, vehicle tire, and industrial machinery.

Employment Torts

The firm's president has tried cases alleging retaliatory discharge, breach of employment contract, race discrimination, gender discrimination, and violations of the Americans with Disability Act. The firm utilizes the processes it developed in complex and mass tort personal injury cases to compile comprehensive indexed databases for its complex employment cases. The firm routinely partners with coordinating in-house and outside counsel when defending employment cases.

To obtain cost-effective legal counsel to defend a personal injury claim in southern Illinois or eastern Missouri, contact the law firm of DeFranco & Bradley, P.C., to schedule a confidential consultation.