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About Frank Sommario
Frank A. Sommario had just completed law school and was about to start his career as a lawyer when he suffered a crushed ankle in an accident. After a brief delay and months of rehabilitation, Frank began his new job as a Workers' Compensation lawyer. Today, you'd never know he had an accident that could have left him with a permanent disability. He fully recovered and was compensated for his injuries thanks to Antonio Romanucci, who successfully represented him in a lawsuit. Frank served as counsel to Antonio's law firm in Workers' Compensation matters before joining the firm full-time in 2007.
As a petitioner's Workers' Compensation lawyer, he vigorously fights for the rights of his clients and has obtained several large settlements and favorable trial awards for injured clients. He considers it a privilege to help injured workers get the benefits they deserve. For his successes representing injury victims, Frank has been proudly named one of The Best Lawyers in America(c) since 2017. Lawdragon has honored Frank as one of the 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyers, Plaintiff Employment.
Super Lawyers has recognized Frank as an Illinois Top 100 Super Lawyer for 2019 and since 2022, one of Illinois' Super Lawyers since 2016, and one of Illinois' Rising Stars for 2010-2015. Additionally, he was named a Leading Lawyer by Law Bulletin Publishing Company's Leading Lawyers Division since 2016. In 2015, he was named an Emerging Lawyer by Law Bulletin Publishing Company. The Justinian Society of Lawyers presented Sommario with the prestigious Award of Excellence in 2021.
He was also named to Law Bulletin Publishing Company's 40 Illinois Attorneys Under 40 to Watch for 2012. Frank's commitment to the practice of law and professional associations includes his time as President for the National Italian Bar Association, in addition to serving on the Board of Managers for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Board of Governors for the Illinois State Bar Association and formerly as the President of the Justinian Society of Lawyers and Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association. Before joining Romanucci & Blandin, Frank worked as a law clerk for the Illinois Attorney General's Office and was an accountant-consultant for the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County in law school. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a registered investment advisor.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Romanucci & Blandin
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A federal jury awarded $98.65 million to the family and estate of Botham Jean after finding that former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger used excessive force and violated his constitutional rights when she entered his apartment and shot him in 2018.
A class of more than 1.2 million Chicago motorists received a $38.75 million settlement after plaintiffs proved the city collected red light and speed camera fines without giving drivers the second violation notice they were owed under the city's own municipal code.
Romanucci and Blandin recovered $30 million for a family whose infant son suffered permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy after a pediatric surgeon at Rush University Medical Center performed 25 experimental surgeries, severing the child's pulmonary artery during the final operation.
A Cook County jury awarded $28.7 million to the family of Jennifer Arrington-Cutaia, a 44-year-old Franklin Park woman who died after Gottlieb Memorial Hospital discharged her with a severely elevated white blood cell count and other abnormal lab values despite active Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome.
Ben Crump, with co-counsel Antonio Romanucci and L. Chris Stewart, negotiated a $27 million settlement between the family of George Floyd and the City of Minneapolis, announced by the family's lawyers as the largest pretrial settlement of a civil rights wrongful-death claim in American history. The city council approved the payment unanimously in March 2021, while jury selection in Derek Chauvin's murder trial was underway blocks away.
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