GWC Injury Lawyers has been retained by the family of a 12-year-old South Elgin boy to investigate his severe beating by another student during school hours, and to answer troubling questions about the incident and how it was handled by the school. “Right now the family has more questions than we do answers,” GWC Partner>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers attorney James E. Babcock recently obtained a large workers’ compensation settlement for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) worker who lost his index finger on the job – a settlement that is far in excess of the state-mandated limits for the loss of a finger. Prior to the accident, Mr. Babcock’s>> Read More

A mail carrier was struck and killed at a carwash in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in Chicago’s North Side on the morning of January 28, 2017. Passion Overstreet, 28, was inside a carwash at the 5400 block of Damen Avenue when a 56-year-old man drove his Volkswagen Golf through its closed overhead door at approximately>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers managing partner Louis C. Cairo appeared on CAN TV’s The S.H.E. Gallery Show on January 17, 2017.  He spoke with host and S.H.E. Gallery director Dulce Maria Diaz about a variety of topics related to the legal profession, and about GWC, Illinois’ largest Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation law firm. The son>> Read More

In a recent editorial for Crain’s Chicago Business, Illinois State Representative Jay Hoffman, D-Belleville, lays out a plan to reduce workers’ compensation rates in the state. Rep. Hoffman, who chairs the Illinois House Labor Committee, argues that a Democratic proposal for insurance reform could create a more business-friendly climate in Illinois, with lower workers’ compensation>> Read More

Police are investigating the crash of an SUV into a house that took place on the night of January 7 in Evanston, Illinois – a car accident that sent dangerous debris flying into a child’s room. An unnamed 68-year-old man was driving his Chevy SUV south in the 1000 block of Dodge Avenue after 8:00>> Read More

On December 15, 2016, a Homer Glen man and his daughter were severely burned when their house exploded as a result of a gas leak. Residents in the neighborhood began reporting the gas leak at 2 p.m. that day, which seemed to originate around 143rd Street and Parker Road. Nicor workers arrived before 3 p.m.>> Read More