Top Attorney – Chris Doscotch
Peoria, IL WW/Press/May 18, 2017 – Chris Doscotch Esq., Owner of The Law Office of Chris Doscotch, LLC, was selected for inclusion in the forthcoming Top Attorneys of North America 2017 edition of The Who’s Who Directories.
The Law Office of Chris Doscotch conveniently serves clients in the Greater Peoria region, in a wide range of legal matters including cases from workers’ compensation and personal injury to wrongful death, auto accidents and premises liability and even dog bite cases. The team at the law firm are passionate advocates for injured workers and innocent victims.
Chris has been a practicing lawyer since 1994, in the areas of personal injury and workers’ compensation. He founded this firm with a strong tradition of service to the community in central Illinois. He believes that his clients deserve quality representation and he has established this throughout this firm. For 20 years, Chris and his team of personal injury lawyers have been protecting the rights of the injured as well as supporting organizations that truly make the communities great. Employees at the Law of Chris Doscotch are encouraged to give back to the community and are rewarded for volunteerism by receiving comp time for hours donated to any of the worthy charitable organizations in the area.
Chris has tried over 45 jury cases, arbitrated over 650 workers’ compensation claims and settled over 4000 claims, including numerous personal injury cases. Since 1994, he has helped the injured and their families collect nearly $80 million. He was trial co-counsel on three county jury verdict records: Snelson v. Kamm, $7 million award in Macon County, Ahmed v. GTE, $847,500 jury award in Tazewell County and the case of Green v. Pioneer, 510,000. in Tazewell County. Chris has also been instrumental in two seminal workers’ compensation cases: Mechanical Devices and Durand. Mechanical Devices expanded rights of workers’ to receive temporary partial disability benefits. In Durand, the Supreme Court of Illinois protected the workers’ continued right to receive benefits for repetitive trauma cases.