GWC attorneys Colin OMalley and Joseph Sorce today settled the lawsuit for an apprentice millwright injured during the 2005 re-tooling at the Chrysler Assembly Plant in Belvidere, Illinois. Apprentice millwright, James Susan, lost his left hand when he attempted to take a measurement alongside an active conveyor chain. During four years of litigation, the defendants>> Read More

The frontman for the heavy-metal band “Suicide Silence” died on Thursday from catastrophic injuries that he sustained in a Halloween motorcycle accident. Authorities say that 28-year-old Mitchell Lucker was driving his Harley-Davidson in Huntington Beach, California, on Halloween night when he lost control of the bike and slammed into a light pole. The crash occurred>> Read More

Doctors are urging diabetics taking a popular class of diabetes drugs to get regular vision checks. The New York Times recently reported that a class of drugs called thiazolidinediones has been linked to vision loss in patients. Studies indicate that the drugs can increase a patient’s risk of macular edema, which is a condition in>> Read More

Willpower and a desire to get better may be as important to the physical recovery of spinal cord injury victims as they are to the mental recovery. A study involving laboratory rats with nearly severed spinal cords showed that, with electrical and chemical stimulation of the spinal cord, rats who were consciously engaged in regaining>> Read More