In 1999, attorney Blake Horwitz won a verdict from a federal jury awarding Joseph Regalado $28 million for debilitating injuries he suffered from Chicago police officers—this was and remains the largest verdict ever obtained against the City of Chicago for police brutality and excessive force. ...
In 2017, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm successfully represented a deceased inmate’s estate in a lawsuit against Lake County, Indiana that settled for $2.75 million. As originally reported by the Chicago Tribune, Gregory Smith suffered a heart attack when he was an inmate in Lake County Jail in ...
In 2002, attorney Blake Horwitz earned a $1.8 million settlement from the City of Chicago for the family of Juan Vega, a man who died while being held in a police van. As originally reported by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago police officers took Mr. Vega into custody in 2000 for being ...
Attorney Blake Horwitz secured a $750,000 settlement from the Village of Maywood for George Caithamer after he was brutally beaten by another detainee while in custody. As reported by the Riverside Brookfield Landmark, in 2004, Mr. Caithamer found himself in lockup at the Maywood Police ...
In 2012, the City of Chicago agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by The Blake Horwitz Law Firm on behalf of a family from Chicago’s South Side that was abused and extorted for nearly a year by four corrupt Chicago police officers. As described by the Chicago Tribune, starting in 2004, a group of ...
On August 24, 2018, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm earned a new trial for Kasey Burton when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court abused its discretion by preventing Ms. Burton from introducing evidence of a previous incident where Zion police officers used excessive force ...
In 2017, Blake Horwitz obtained a $395k settlement on behalf of many Chicagoans who were celebrating Barack Obama’s election victory in 2008. America had elected its first black president who was also a former Chicago resident and Illinois state senator. As reported by DNAInfo, on Chicago’s ...
On January 23, 2020, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm reached a $430,000 settlement with the City of Naperville for its client, Fran Reitz—an elected official for the Town of Cicero. The settlement stemmed from an incident where Naperville police officers used excessive force against Ms. Reitz as she ...
On July 25, 2017, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm filed suit against the City of Chicago and several police officers on behalf of Ashley Phifer and her two children for the deadly shooting of Joshua Beal by two off-duty Chicago police officers. On November 5, 2016, Mr. Beal and his fiancé, Ms. ...
In February of 2018, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm earned its clients a $50,000 settlement from Kane County for violating their constitutional rights. As originally reported by the Chicago Tribune, in 2015, then-Sergeant Ronald Hain—who is now the Kane County Sheriff—pulled over three individuals ...
