Kalas, John M.

Lou Jungbauer has been an attorney with YJB since 1981, a partner since 1991.   Some of the cases he has handled include;

Frank Aloi vs. Union Pacific RR,  during which a Denver, Colorado jury returned a verdict of $ 6,000,000 in damages, at the time the highest FELA verdict in history.  That case is currently in the appellate process.

A 1988 case involving a car-train crash in northwestern Illinois, in which he obtained a then-record $ 1,250,000 structured settlement on behalf of a four year old boy, whose mother and unborn sibling were killed in the grade-crossing accident.

A confidential record settlement on behalf of a locomotive engineer involved in a collision between two trains, using the theory of negligent promotion , where the Defendant Railroad certified an engineer who clearly shouldn't have been.

A confidential record settlement in a single inhalation case, where his client had been trapped in a locomotive engine cab, which started on fire.

A confidential record settlement in a PTSD ( post traumatic stress disorder ) case, where the engineer's train struck a "runaway freight car", leaving the engineer unable to return to work.

A confidential settlement in a traumatic brain injury case, in which a 61 year old conductor was injured in a caboose derailment case.

Two cases where the railroad fired the worker for turning in personal injury report forms, assisting the worker's union officials in obtaining the employee's reinstatement with full back pay.

Lou has successfully completed 14 marathons, including in London, Chicago, and the Big Sur International Marathon, in Carmel, California.