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$22 Million Settlement - Hupy Wins in Trial and Appellate Courts

Attorney Michael F. Hupy won three victories in court that allowed him to put together a $22 million structured settlement for one of our clients.

The client is the seven year old son of a man from Laos who helped rescue downed American pilots during the Vietnam War. A trial judge, holding there was no liability because the accident happened on city property, dismissed the case. We took the case to the Court of Appeals and won there. The Court of Appeals sent the case back to the trial court for a jury trial. For the first time that we know of in the State of Wisconsin, the trial court required an unwilling plaintiff to go through a trial where he had to prove liability before he was allowed to have a damages trial. Michael F. Hupy & Associates, S.C. won the liability trial, and the jury in the damages trial awarded $9.5 million to our client, a seven-year-old boy who had been seriously injured when his mother slipped and fell on ice adjacent to the defendant’s property. Offers of $1 million, $1.5 million, $1.6 million, $2 million and $2.4 million were rejected. The boy’s mother and father were allowed to come to the United States from Laos after the Vietnam War because of his part in helping the Americans. After the trial, Hupy was able to structure the payout over the boy’s lifetime so he will receive payments for the rest of his life totaling $22 million.

Awarded: $22,000,000.00