Personal Injury Law

Illinois Personal Injury Settlement - BB Gun Injury - $335,000.00 Through Homeowner's Insurance

By Benjamin J. Sansone, Esq.

Illinois personal injury victim received a personal injury lawsuit settlement on behalf of her child in the amount of $335,000. Her child sustained serious personal injuries in Illinois to his neck when he was shot by a pellet gun. The child was playing at a friend?s home when the Illinois personal injury incident occurred. One of the pellets broke the skin and made contact with his thoracic spine, causing serious injury.

Three Illinois personal injury claims were made. The Illinois injury lawyer for the Illinois personal injury victim filed against the Illinois liability insurance for the homeowner, the pellet gun owner and the shooter of the pellet gun. All three individuals? personal injury insurance coverage companies settled for the grand total of $335,000.

As a child of the BB gun day, this recent Illinois personal injury pellet gun settlement amused me. I grew up in a comparatively country-er setting than where I live now. I was surrounded by woods, hills and motorcycle trails. But, I was not surrounded by a lot of girls my age to play with. So, a fun day for us was painting our faces with mud, dressing in camouflage, hurling real North Carolina red clay dirt clods, and shooting each other with BB guns. It was war. Kill or be killed. I cannot count the number of times my mother dug BB?s out of mine and my sibling?s body. When you didn?t cry during the ?operations? you were promoted in ranks. It was almost an honor to be shot. That meant you were a creditable opponent - worth going after. We had a code that we played by: no shooting above the neck and we were not allowed to pack rocks in the dirt clods. When one of the kids violated a rule, they were out. Kids were bloody, bruised and literally knocked out. To this day I refuse to wear certain clothing that shows the many scars on my legs from playing chicken on motorcycles and those neighborhood wars. Don?t get me started on when we discovered Chinese throwing stars.

St Louis Missouri personal injury law firm, Sansone Law, llc, and its head personal injury attorney and trial lawyer, Benjamin Sansone, focus on all Missouri and Illinois personal injury claims, including Missouri wrongful death lawsuits, medical malpractice in Missouri and Illinois, St Louis drunk driving injuries and death lawsuits, Missouri car accident lawyer, construction site injuries in Missouri and Illinois, and Missouri work comp claims.

Full post as published by Missouri Injury Law Blog on September 03, 2010 (boomark / email).