Bar Admission & Education
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA)
- Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association
- Justinian Society of Lawyers
- Italian American Labor Council
- Illinois State Bar: Joined October 1990
- Graduate of Marquette University
- Graduate of The John Marshall Law School
About Carl Salvato
Carl Salvato has been an attorney for over 20 years. He started the law firm of Salvato & O’Toole with Paul O’Toole in 2010. Carl has been a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and Justinian Society of Lawyers for the past 15 years. Carl is a lifelong resident of the Bridgeport neighborhood, where he can be found with his family and friends.
Areas of Experience
- Premises Liability
- Products Liability
- Workers’ Compensation
- Construction Law
- Auto Collision Liability
Recognitions
Super Lawyer 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 designation for Carl Salvato
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Super Lawyers magazine features the list and profiles of selected attorneys and is distributed to attorneys in the state or region and the ABA-accredited law school libraries. Super Lawyers is also published as a special section in leading city and regional magazines across the country.
Recent Settlements
Personal Injury Results
- $2.2 Million for a truck driver with serious facial injuries
- $2.15 million for a union electrician involved in an elevator accident.
- $2.1 Million dollar settlement for an injured worker who was injured in a forklift accident.
- $1.45 Million dollar settlement for construction worker who injured back while lifting.
- $1.3 Million dollar settlement for a family whose father and son was fatally injured in a car accident. This was the largest settlement/verdict in Illinois’ Cumberland County history.
- $1.2 Million dollar settlement for a woman who was rear ended by a steel truck resulting in a cervical fusion surgery.
- $1.1 million union truck driver involved in a motor vehicle accident with another truck.
- 0 Million auto accident with back surgery
- $850,000 motor vehicle accident involving a Pace vehicle resulting in a lumbar fusion.
- $800,000.00 settlement for a woman who was injured when an elevator mis-functioned causing her to suffer from a closed head injury and neck injury.
- $800,000 plaintiff rear-ended by a commercial vehicle resulting in a cervical fusion.
- $750,000 plaintiff involved in a motor vehicle accident with a disposal truck resulting in a cervical fusion.
Worker’s Compensation Results
- $525,000 to Union teamster injured
- $500,000 knee injury resulting in permanent restrictions for a union elevator mechanic.
- $450,000 back injury and permanent restrictions for a union laborer.
- $400,000 union cement finisher with multiple injuries and permanent restrictions resulting from a scaffold collapse.
- 375,000 for an iron worker stained shoulder injury
