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Alan M. Bernover

Alan M. Bernover

Partner

IL – Chicago
T: 312.781.6664 | F: 312.781.6630

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Alan focuses his practice on insurance defense litigation in the areas of construction negligence, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death and commercial litigation relating to labor and employment disputes. He has extensive experience in professional malpractice including defending executives and employers, corporate and business litigation, products liability and trucking liability. Alan has represented clients in arbitrations and in numerous jury trials to verdict in state courts throughout Illinois.

Alan is a current member of Litchfield Cavo LLP’s COVID-19 Resource Team.

Practices

  • Burenkhuu Purevdori individually and as administrator of Estate of Tengus Burenkhuu, a minor v. Mission Hills Condominium Association, et al.; Circuit Court of Cook County, IL, Case No.: 2021 L 007106
    • Prevailed on behalf of an individual homeowners’ association client in a wrongful death action brought by the parents of a deceased minor following a tragic drowning in a condominium complex retention pond; the Court ruled in favor of our client and dismissed the action.
  • Alicja Poleszak v. Oakbrook Shopping Center, LLC, et al., 2019 L 010597
    • Obtained summary judgment in favor of our client, a manufacturer and maintenance provider of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, as well as a local mall and its property manager, in a trip-and-fall action where Plaintiff sustained permanent injuries after falling while using a non-operational escalator; the Court found that the escalator’s non-operational condition was open and obvious and ruled in favor of our client.
  • Frulla v. Champion Exposition, et al., 2012 L 001381
    • Tried case in Cook County, IL successfully to verdict March 13-23, 2017
  • Wartalski v. JSB Const. and Consulting Co., 384 Ill.App.3d 139, 892 N.E.2d 122 (Ill.App. 1 Dist., 2008)
    • Tried case to verdict limiting client’s apportioned liability to less than one-third of the total fault allocated to all parties.
  • Laura Herrera, Individually and as Supervised Administrator of the Estate of Filiberto Herrera v. Summit Design and Build, Inc., et al., 2019 IL App (1st) 181404-U
    • Successfully defended against Plaintiff’s appeal of the lower court’s dismissal of wrongful death claims against our client on the grounds that the applicable statute of limitations affirmatively barred the claims.