Hausmann-McNally S.C.

As she was driving to work, a 32-year old woman was hit by a truck on the front driver‘s side. The truck driver was clearly out of his lane. The woman’s injuries were severe and included a severed aorta, which is the largest artery in the body . In life-saving surgery, her aorta was surgically repaired by means of inserting a mesh patch. Her other injuries, including a badly broken leg and broken wrist which made it impossible for her to work. Tragedy struck again as her boyfriend, which whom she had been living, died of brain cancer only a few months after her accident and while she was still confined to a wheel chair.

In November of 2009, a young man was helping an individual who was repairing his roof. He was high on a ladder when it slipped and he fell to the ground head first.  As a result, he suffered serious brain injury.

He lost much of his memory and thought-processing ability. Although he had been a professional chef at East-coast resorts, his injuries meant he couldn’t work at his trade. Doctors could not promise full recovery. He was unable to work for an extended period and felt pretty hopeless about his future.

The first two attorneys he contacted flatly refused to take the case. They felt it was hopeless because it appeared most difficult to establish liability in the situation.

Hausmann-McNally Attorney William Smoler knew he had his hands full when he had a client who had suffered a back injury in a truck accident. Smoler heads the firm’s Madison office. The man was injured and required back surgery, but his legal problem was that he had a previous back injury from another accident. The defendant’s  insurance company tried to use this man’s prior injury as a reason to dismiss the claims of the more recent injury. It takes a skilled attorney to present a convincing case that a pre-existing condition does not invalidate someone’s more current injury claim.

MILWAUKEE, WI- Every week I read stories about shootings at bars and gas stations, beatings in business parking lots, sexual assaults in apartment buildings and a variety of violent actions perpetrated upon our citizenry.  Try as they may the police cannot be everywhere and be the sole solution to the surge of violence and assaults that permeate our society.