Category: Firm News

  • Adwb Partners Get Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to Reverse Summary Judgment Entered Against Fela Plaintiff

    On Behalf of Armbruster Dripps Blotevogel LLC |

    partners Roy Dripps, Michael Blotevogel and Charles Armbruster were able to convince the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a summary judgment that had been entered against a railroad employee in the Eastern District of Kentucky when the employee…

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  • ADWB Stops Jones Act Employer From Using Forum Selection Clause Against Injured Employee

    On Behalf of Armbruster Dripps Blotevogel LLC |

    partner Roy Dripps convinced a judge in the Southern District of Illinois that a forum selection clause frequently used by an employer to guide venue to the Southern District of Indiana was unenforceable. As a result, the employee, who resides…

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  • Adwb Wins Punitive Damages Against Trucking Company for Wrongful Discharge

    On Behalf of Armbruster Dripps Blotevogel LLC |

    partners Charles Armbruster and Michael Blotevogel secured a verdict of $892,600.00 on behalf of their client against Beelman Truck Co. The verdict included $875,000 in punitive damages. The jury found that Beelman fired its employee after it learned he had…

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  • ADWB Defeats Defendants’ Motions in Police Brutality Case

    On Behalf of Armbruster Dripps Blotevogel LLC |

    partners Michael Blotevogel and Charles Armbruster recently defeated pre-trial motions by a municipality and its police officers in a police brutality case that was captured by video footage. The Central District of Illinois court agreed there was sufficient evidence the…

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  • ADWB Partners Defeat Doctors’ Motion for Summary Judgment in Wrongful Death Case

    On Behalf of Armbruster Dripps Blotevogel LLC |

    partners Michael Blotevogel and Charles Armbruster recently defeated pre-trial motions by a doctor in a medical malpractice case in which their client’s husband died one day after the husband went to an emergency room and told the doctor he was…

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