As the year comes to an end, Americans are celebrating another holiday season. The holidays can be a great time to reunite with family and friends. Unfortunately, the holiday season may not be the safest time to be on the road. According to statistics gathered by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), crash fatalities>> Read More

Approximately twenty people have been injured and twelve killed, including eight Americans, in a Mexican tour bus crash in the Yucatan Peninsula. No other vehicles appear to have been involved in the incident, in which the bus left the roadway and flipped over onto its side. Fatal Mexican Tour Bus Crash On December 19, 2017,>> Read More

An Amtrak train derailed off of an overpass in the state of Washington, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others. Inaugural Run of New Amtrak Line On the morning of December 18, 2017, Amtrak Train No. 501 was making the inaugural run of a new train service from Seattle to Portland. At>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers attorney Dana Blumthal recently obtained a workers’ compensation settlement worth $1,029,759.00 for a former receptionist suffering from permanent injuries. This is one of the largest workers’ compensation settlements in Illinois history. Two Herniated Discs In August 2010, Ms. Blumthal’s client was employed as a receptionist at a suburban bank, which had a>> Read More

Thanks to significant advances in medicine in the past decades, Americans are living longer, with nearly 15 percent of the population age 65 or older. With this spike in the aging population has come a significant increase in the need for long-term health care. Rather than relying upon expensive hospital stays or moves to nursing>> Read More

More and more employers are choosing to hire independent contractors instead of traditional employees. What is the difference between the two? And how does your status as an independent contractor impact your ability to receive workers’ compensation benefits? What Is an Independent Contractor? You are likely familiar with the concept of a traditional employee: Somebody>> Read More

GWC Partners Michael D. Fisher and Joseph P. Sorce have secured a settlement worth over $2 million for a union sheet metal worker who was seriously injured when he fell through the deteriorated roof of a bowling alley. A Fall Through a Roof GWC’s client, a 46-year-old sheet metal worker, was working on a large>> Read More

A pedestrian has died twelve days after being struck by a motor vehicle making a left-hand turn in the West Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, authorities say. Humboldt Park Man Fatally Struck On the afternoon of November 18, 2017, 62-year-old Johnnie L. Osborne was crossing Loomis Boulevard when a 34-year-old woman driving a 2012>> Read More

A Philadelphia jury has just awarded $27.8 million to a woman who claimed to have been injured by the blood-thinning drug Xarelto. The verdict marketed the first court loss over the drug for Johnson & Johnson and Bayer A.G., who are currently facing thousands of Xarelto lawsuit plaintiffs with similar complaints. Hospitalized for Gastrointestinal Bleeding>> Read More

Anyone who has turned on the news or picked up a paper recently is probably aware of the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States today. Prescriptions for powerful opioid painkillers such as OxyContin, Hydrocodone, and Fentanyl have quadrupled in recent decades, from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 300 million in 2014, while overdose>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers attorney Donn P. LaHaie recently obtained a workers’ compensation settlement in the amount of $187,500.00 for a warehouse worker who injured his ankle on the job. As part of the settlement, Mr. LaHaie was able to obtain wage differential benefits for the warehouse worker, benefits that are rare in cases that do>> Read More

Hundreds of victims of the recent Las Vegas mass shooting have filed lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court against the operators of the hotel where the shooter was staying, the organizers of the country music festival the shooter fired upon, and the shooter’s own estate. Las Vegas Mass Shooting Worst in Modern U.S. History On>> Read More