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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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