RAPE

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Are you a victim of rape? Do you believe the rape was the result of poor security in your building, apartment, or hotel? Have you suffered permanent emotional damage as a result of the rape?

Do you meet any of the following criteria?

* During the traumatic event you believed you might die.

* You experienced feelings of intense fear, helplessness, hopelessness and horror during the attack.

* You re-experience the trauma in any of the following ways:

-You have recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the rape, including images, thoughts and perceptions.

-You have recurrent distressing dreams of the rape.

-You experience the rape reoccurring in flashbacks, illusions or hallucinations.

-You have intense psychological distress when you are exposed to things, people or places that remind you of the attack.

*You specifically try to avoid stimuli that makes you recall the rape. Some examples of this avoidance are as follows:

- Trying to avoid thoughts, feelings or conversations associated with the rape.

- Trying to avoid activities, places or people that remind you of the attack.

-You are unable to remember an important aspect of the trauma.

-You have intense psychological distress when you are exposed to things, people or places that remind you of the attack.

-You have a markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities.

-You feel detached or estranged from others, including loved ones.

-You have a restricted range of feelings (i.e.: you feel unable to have loving feelings, you are unable to trust anyone, etc.)

-You have a sense of a foreshortened future (i.e.: you don't believe you will have a normal life span but will die prematurely)

*You have persistent symptoms of increased arousal which was not present before the attack such as:

-Difficulty falling or staying asleep

-Irritability or outbursts of anger

-Difficulty concentrating

-Hypervigilance

-Exaggerated startle response

If you believe you have a potential lawsuit because of the injuries described above please contact us.

Related Cases:

$2,200,000:
This verdict was the largest sexual assault verdict in Illinois at the time. The victim was raped at work in the Chicago Bar Association Building which was managed by a management corporation. Ms. Zellner subpoenaed the rapist from prison to testify on client's behalf.

$15.5 Million
For Kevin Fox, who was falsely arrested, prosecuted and convicted in the murder of his 4 year old daughter

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$13.05 Million
For a suicide after the hospital refused to admit. Highest verdict in the nation for medical malpractice suicide

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$4.25 Million
Settlement against city of Chicago for two police officers who failed to respond in a timely manner

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$3 Million
Settlment for 25-week premature baby boy who lost eyesight due to treatment delay

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$3 Million
For brachial plexus injury that occurred at birth resulting in partial paralysis of right hand and arm

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$2.43 Million
Settlement for cardiac arrest suffered by a 3-week old in the ER after wrongfully adminsitered drug

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$2.2 Million
For sexual assault victim raped at the Chicago Bar Association building, the largest sexual assault verdict in Illinois at the time 

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$2.0 Million
For a prisoner who lost his left eye as a result of deliberate indifference, the largest civil rights verdict for a prisoner at the time

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$1.5 Million
For wrongful conviction and coerced confession of plaintiff when he was 14 years old, imprisoned for 15 years, overturned by DNA evidence

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