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Wisconsin and Illinois Personal Injury Attorney Milwaukee

A serious accident rarely stays contained to the day it happened. Medical bills keep arriving. Wages stop showing up while the body still hasn’t healed. Somewhere in the middle of all that, an insurance adjuster calls with an offer that doesn’t come close to covering what’s ahead. Tabak Law Injury Attorneys was built to meet that moment. We’re based in Milwaukee, and we represent people hurt in car crashes, workplace incidents, dog attacks, falls, and every other kind of accident someone else caused.

We’re not a general practice firm that also does injury work. This is what we do. We built our team, our case-prep process, and our office on Port Washington Road around doing it well for clients across Wisconsin and Illinois.

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    Personal Injury Claims in Wisconsin and Illinois

    Injury claims in these two states don’t run on the same rules. A claim that would succeed in Chicago can fail in Milwaukee for reasons that have nothing to do with the facts. Knowing which rule applies, and when, is often the difference between a fair settlement and a denied claim.

    The People In Your Corner

    Your Milwaukee Injury Team

    Leadership that sets the standard, and a dedicated personal injury group that carries your case day to day.

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      Jason Richard

      Managing Attorney

      Jason oversees the personal injury practice, setting the strategy and preparation that give clients real leverage in negotiations.

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      Jackson Moberg

      Personal Injury Attorney

      Jackson works directly with injured clients, building thorough cases from investigation through resolution with steady, personal attention.

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      Anna Feltes

      General Liability Paralegal

      Anna supports clients throughout their case, keeping records, deadlines, and communication on track so nothing slips through the cracks.

    Wisconsin’s Comparative Negligence Rule

    Wisconsin uses a modified comparative negligence standard. You can still recover compensation as long as you’re not more than 50% at fault for what happened. Your award gets reduced by whatever percentage of fault is assigned to you. Twenty-five percent responsible means a 25% cut off the top. Insurance companies know this rule well, and they use it. Adjusters routinely push fault percentages higher than the facts support. Every point shifted onto you is a point they don’t have to pay. We push back with police reports, witness statements, and scene photos before a number ever gets accepted. Sometimes that means bringing in an accident reconstruction expert.

    Illinois’ Comparative Fault Standard

    Illinois runs on a similar but distinct modified comparative fault rule. It also bars recovery past the 50% threshold. The overlap causes real confusion for clients hurt near the state line. A crash on I-94 might implicate Wisconsin law, Illinois law, or both, depending on where it happened and where the parties reside. We sort out which jurisdiction governs before we file anything. Getting it wrong can cost a claim its deadline.

    Statute of Limitations

    Wisconsin gives injury victims three years from the date of injury to file suit in most cases. Illinois generally allows the same three-year window. Claims against government entities in either state can carry notice deadlines as short as 120 days. Miss it, and the claim is gone. It doesn’t matter how strong it was. If there’s any chance a government vehicle, municipal property, or public employee was involved, call us immediately. That clock starts running fast.

    Recoverable Damages

    Wisconsin and Illinois both allow injured people to pursue compensation for a range of losses. Most clients underestimate what should be on that list until we walk through it with them.

    Past and future medical expenses

    hospital bills, surgery, physical therapy, and ongoing care your injury requires

    Lost wages and diminished earning capacity

    what you’ve already lost, plus what a lasting injury costs you going forward

    Pain and suffering

    the physical and emotional toll that doesn’t show up on a medical bill

    Property damage

    your vehicle, and anything else damaged in the incident

    Emotional distress

    anxiety, sleep disruption, and other psychological effects that follow serious trauma

    Punitive damages

    available in a smaller set of cases involving especially reckless or intentional conduct.

    The value of any one claim depends on injury severity, treatment length, and how much of your life the injury actually changed. A soft tissue injury that resolves in six weeks isn’t worth the same as a spinal injury that changes what work you can do for the rest of your life.

    How We Build Your Case

    Insurance companies have a playbook. Ours is built to counter it, case by case.

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    Investigating the scene while evidence is still fresh — skid marks fade, security footage gets overwritten, memories get fuzzy

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    Pulling complete medical records rather than the summary an adjuster requests

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    Calculating future medical costs with input from treating physicians, not just an actuarial table

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    Documenting lost income and career impact, including work you can no longer physically perform

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    Identifying every liable party. Sometimes there’s more than one, and sometimes it’s not who you’d expect

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    Negotiating from a position that assumes trial, not one that assumes settlement

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    Filing suit and litigating when an insurer won’t offer what the case is actually worth.

    Why Choose Tabak Law Injury Attorneys?

    We fight insurance companies — not you

    Adjusters are trained to minimize payouts. We’re trained to stop that from working.

    Case preparation starts day one

    Scene investigation, medical record collection, and expert consultation begin the moment you hire us, not months later.

    We prepare every case as if it’s going to trial

    Most cases settle. Insurers pay more when they know you’re not bluffing.

    No fee unless we win

    Free consultation, contingency representation. You owe us nothing unless we recover for you.

    Client Experiences

    People we stood beside.

    Behind every case is a real person facing a difficult moment. Here is how clients describe working with our team.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    A personal injury case arises when someone else’s negligence or wrongful conduct causes you harm. That covers car and truck accidents, motorcycle crashes, slip-and-falls, dog bites, workplace injuries, defective products, and wrongful death. The common thread: another party failed to act reasonably, and that failure hurt you. If you’re not sure your situation fits, that’s a reasonable question for a free consultation, not something to guess at on your own.

    You generally need to show that someone else was negligent, that their negligence caused your injury, and that the injury resulted in real damages. Wisconsin and Illinois both reduce or bar recovery once your own fault crosses certain thresholds. How fault gets divided matters as much as whether someone else was careless. We evaluate the fault picture before we tell a client what their case is worth.

    It depends on your medical expenses, lost wages, the severity and permanence of your injury, and how much pain and disruption it caused. Two people with similar accidents can have very different case values. One recovers fully in a month. The other faces years of treatment. We don’t give a number on the first call. We give one after records, bills, and prognosis are in hand.

    Wisconsin and Illinois both generally allow three years from the date of injury. Claims against a government entity can require formal notice in as little as 120 days. Waiting to “see how the injury heals” before calling an attorney is one of the more common ways people accidentally forfeit a claim.

    Most personal injury cases resolve through negotiated settlement, not trial. We still prepare every file as if trial is coming, because insurers pay differently when they believe a firm will actually litigate. If a lawsuit becomes necessary to preserve your rights, the large majority of clients still never have to appear in a courtroom themselves.

    Medical bills past and future, lost income, diminished earning capacity, property damage, pain and suffering, and emotional distress. In rarer cases involving reckless conduct, punitive damages too. The specific mix depends entirely on what happened to you and how it’s affected your life since.

    Call 911. Get medical attention even if you feel fine at the scene. Photograph everything. Gather witness contact information. Speak with an attorney before giving any statement to an insurance company — including your own.

    Insurance companies negotiate injury claims for a living. Most people negotiate one, maybe twice, in a lifetime. That imbalance is exactly what an experienced attorney corrects: gathering evidence, calculating true case value, and pushing back on lowball tactics you’d otherwise face alone.

    Talk to a Milwaukee Personal Injury Attorney Today

    You don’t have to sort through Wisconsin and Illinois injury law on your own while you’re still recovering. Our Milwaukee-based team evaluates your case, builds it the right way from day one, and fights for the full value of your claim. No fee unless we win.

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