About Eric Ryberg

Eric J. Ryberg is a shareholder of Habush Habush & Rottier S.C. and the Co-Managing Partner of the firm's Madison office. He has tried personal injury cases in Dane, Rock, Sauk, Waukesha, Eau Claire, Dunn, Jefferson, Iowa, Brown, and Kenosha counties.

Ryberg earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating cum laude in the top 15% of his class and being elected to the Order of the Coif. He received the Abner Brodie Award for outstanding achievement in legal study and practical application of the law. He is admitted to the State Bar of Wisconsin and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Ryberg is a Board Certified Civil Trial Law Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a Past President of both the Dane County Bar Association and the State Bar of Wisconsin Litigation Section, and a Fellow of the Wisconsin Law Foundation. He teaches trial advocacy and coaches mock trial teams at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His honors include selection to the Wisconsin Super Lawyers list since 2013 and the Super Lawyers Top 25 Madison list from 2014 through 2023 and in 2025.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.

These results are credited to Habush Habush & Rottier S.C.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Robert Habush won a $99.25 million Milwaukee County jury verdict for the widows of three ironworkers killed when the Big Blue crane collapsed at Miller Park. The appeals court vacated the $94 million punitive award, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reinstated the claim in 2005, and the widows settled in January 2006 for about $30 million.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court · 2000Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

A Racine County jury found Hyundai's driver-seat and head-restraint design defective and awarded Edward and Susan Vanderventer $38.1 million, the largest single-plaintiff compensatory verdict in Wisconsin history, later upheld on appeal.

Racine County Circuit Court · 2020Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A Milwaukee County jury awarded $25.3 million after emergency room providers failed to tell Ascaris Mayo that her symptoms could mean a Strep A infection, an omission that cost her all four limbs, though the Wisconsin Supreme Court later reinstated the state's $750,000 cap on noneconomic damages.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court · 2014Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$22.5 millionSettlementTop 20 in Wisconsin · #8

A Fitchburg family recovered $22.5 million after their six-week-old son suffered permanent brain damage during surgery at UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital. The suit alleged an anesthesia resident failed to respond to prolonged low blood pressure readings. It is the second largest payment ever made by Wisconsin's Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund.

Dane County Circuit Court, Wisconsin · 2019Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A six-year-old girl suffered cardiac arrest and permanent brain damage when a surgeon used a morcellator he had never operated during a routine spleen removal, and the case settled for $17.3 million, the largest sum reported to the Wisconsin Law Journal in 2009.

Dane County Circuit Court, Madison, WI · 2009Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Wisconsin
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
Dane County Bar Association (Past President)
State Bar of Wisconsin Litigation Section (Past President)
Wisconsin Law Foundation (Fellow)
Order of the Coif

Awards & recognition

Abner Brodie Award - University of Wisconsin Law School
Board Certified Civil Trial Law Advocate - National Board of Trial Advocacy
Wisconsin Super Lawyers (2013-present)
Top 25 Madison Super Lawyers (2014-2023, 2025)

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Milwaukee firms

Warshafsky Law Firm
Warshafsky Law Firm
$4.9 Million Verdict for a Brain-Injured Boy Set a Wisconsin Record in 1979
Gruber Law Offices, LLC
Gruber Law Offices, LLC
$633,682 · Milwaukee County Jury Returns $633,682 Verdict in Day-Care Van Death of 7-Year-Old
PKSD Accident and Injury Lawyers
PKSD Accident and Injury Lawyers
$11 Million Verdict for Estate of 88-Year-Old Who Developed Fatal Heel Wounds at Albuquerque Nursing Facility

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.