Melanie VanOverloop
Work in Rapoport, Weisberg & Sims P.C.
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
Personal Injury, Construction, Product Liability, Medical Malpractice, Premises Liability
20 North Clark Street, Suite 3500, Chicago, IL 60602
About Melanie VanOverloop
Practice Areas
- Personal Injury
- Construction
- Product Liability
- Medical Malpractice
- Premises Liability
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 2011J.D.
- Honors: Certificate in Advocacy
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 2007B.A.
- Major: History and Political Science
Representative Cases
- $7,750,000 recovery for a worker's burn injuries
- $7,600,000 recovery for workers poisoned by lead in a shipyard
- $4.300,000 record-setting highest hand amputation compensation ever recovered in Illinois following an industrial work accident. The worker's hand was reattached and he regained function despite the injury.
- $4,035,000 medical malpractice wrongful death settlement for failure to provide DVT prophylaxis following a surgery
- $4,000,000 recovery for work-related crush injury that led to worker developing complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- $3,900,000 settlement package on behalf a Local 1 Ironworker who was injured on a construction project
- $3,200,000 settlement package for a Local 1 Ironworker who suffered nerve damage on his dominant right arm while installing rebar in an unsafe work area
- $3,000,000 medical malpractice wrongful death settlement for failure to timely treat a stroke
- $2,250,000 record-setting settlement for a client who suffered a fractured femur and burns in a car accident
- $1,800,000 medical malpractice wrongful death settlement for failure to timely diagnose and treat a DVT
- $1,075,000 record-setting settlement for a 95-year-old woman injured in a grocery store. The recovery is the highest injury settlement ever for a nonagenarian in the state of Illinois.
- $1,000,000 recovery for the family of a motorcyclist killed in an unwitnessed collision with a truck
- $939,000 record-setting settlement for a broken ankle in a trucking accident that also set a record as the highest ever in that jurisdiction.
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 2011
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2011
Other Affiliations
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
- Women's Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
Fees
- Offers Free Initial Consultation
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Personal Injury
- 18 years of experienceAviation & Aerospace, Construction, Medical Malpractice, Car Accidents, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Wrongful Death, Litigation
Nearby Lawyers
- Personal Injury
- Construction
- Product Liability
- Medical Malpractice
- 0.1 mile away
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