Biographies

Steve Berman has a decade of experience in the area of personal injury litigation, including trying more than 50 personal injury jury trials.  With Anesi Ozmon since 1998, he has also argued before the Illinois Appellate Courts.  Steve is a dedicated litigator who stops at nothing to achieve success and significant awards for his clients.

Admitted to the bar in the State of Illinois, Steve is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice and the Chicago Bar Association.

Steve is a litigator with an impressive track record of achievements.

Steve has obtained many significant settlements and verdicts for his clients, including:

• $2,500,000 jury verdict for a union electrician who injured his knee when he twisted his knee coming down from a ladder at a jobsite;

• Over $1,740,000 total package settlement for a union ironworker who injured his back in a slip and fall on ice at a jobsite;

• Over $1,539,000 total package settlement for a union painter who injured his knee while climbing an unsafe affixed ladder on a jobsite;

• $615,000 settlement for a union ironworker apprentice who was injured when he twisted his back in a fall on a jobsite;

• $440,000 settlement for a union ironworker apprentice who injured her back in a slip and fall at a Jewel food store in DuPage County;

• Over $437,000 total package settlement for a union painter who injured his shoulder in a fall from a ladder on a job site;

• Over $415,000 total package settlement for a union ironworker who twisted his back when he slipped while carrying rebar on slick decking on a Will County job site;

• $375,000 total package settlement for a union painter who cut his leg when he tripped and fell at a job site, resulting in a MRSE infection of the cut;

• $365,250 settlement for a woman who was injured in a slip and fall on a City sidewalk;

• $300,000 settlement for a laborer who injured his ankle when factory materials fell on his leg;

• $225,000 settlement for a woman who tripped and fell on debris on the stairs of her apartment building in Will County;

• Over $277,000 total package settlement for a laborer who sustained an electric shock on a job site.

In addition, Steve has successfully appeared before the Appellate Court in the state of Illinois in a significant case upholding the rights of all injured victims who slip and fall on ice.  In the case Russell v. the Village of Lake Villa, the trial court dismissed the Plaintiff's case because it found that the Plaintiff's injury was caused by ice that was considered to be a natural accumulation under previous case law.  Steve appealed and the Appellate Court reversed and found that where unsafe plowing procedures cause ice to form, that ice is not a natural accumulation.  To read more, see this link  to the Appellate Court's reversal.