$2 million settlement. A Des Plaines firefighter fractured both heels when he fell from a 9-year old fire truck designed with improper hand rails. He had been very seriously injured in the occurrence, but the case was compromised six months before trial; at that time, our client reinjured one of his legs in a second incident as he was working on a ladder while performing construction work on his home. The case settled while on trial for more than twice the prior high verdict in a case involving a bilateral heel fracture.