At least five people have been injured in a second-story porch collapse in the Palmer Square neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Porch Detached from Apartment Building On Oct. 27, 2018, at approximately 2:00 a.m., a raised second-story porch detached from an apartment building on the 2900 block of West Lyndale Street, seriously injuring two females>> Read More

Illinois residents are largely familiar by now with the controversy surrounding Sterigenics International’s Willowbrook facility, which both federal and state authorities have determined is emitting significant amounts of cancer-causing ethylene oxide gas. These emissions have reportedly resulted in elevated cancer risks to the more than 19,000 residents in the surrounding areas, recently prompting the Illinois>> Read More

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin have filed a lawsuit against Sterigenics in state court. The Sterigenics lawsuit is demanding either a full shutdown of the controversial Willowbrook facility or the enforcement of more stringent limits on its emissions of a cancer-causing gas. The GWC Law Firm has been>> Read More

Health officials have found two new clusters of Legionnaires’ disease in Illinois, the first linked to a Walmart in Johnsburg and the second affecting residents at a nursing home in Chicago’s South Loop. Walmart, Nursing Home Linked to Legionnaires’ Disease Three people who reported being at the Johnsburg Walmart in McHenry County have been diagnosed>> Read More

The Chicago Tribune has just released a bombshell exposé alleging that officials in the Trump and Rauner administrations knew that ethylene oxide gas emissions from Willowbrook’s Sterigenics plant were likely responsible for some of the highest cancer risks in the country, yet kept the information from the public for eight months. “Exceeding Our Typical Upper>> Read More

GWC Law’s Deanna Cairo Arthur has obtained the maximum insurance policy limits for a vehicular mechanic who injured his hand in a Chicago motorcycle accident, settling his claim for $300,000.00. A Door Opens to Disaster On September 24, 2016, Ms. Arthur’s client, an 18-year-old auto mechanic, was riding his motorcycle southbound on I-94 at 95th>> Read More

GWC’s Louis Anthony Cairo and Joseph P. Sorce have obtained an $875,000.00 settlement for a union Nicor Gas worker who sustained multiple injuries in a head-on collision in McHenry County. Head-On Collision, Significant Injuries At the time of the incident, GWC’s client was a meter reader for Nicor Gas and a proud member of IBEW>> Read More

At least 26 people have been injured in a CTA bus accident in Chicago’s Far South Side. The incident offers an opportunity to examine the challenges of pursuing a personal injury claim for injuries sustained in a public transportation accident. Cause of CTA Bus Accident Unknown On the morning of October 17, 2018, just before>> Read More

Stephenson County has reached a $3 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit over a wrongful death that was caused, at least in part, by a fallen stop sign. Woman Pregnant at Time of Accident On May 20, 2013, 32-year-old language arts teacher Sarah Kamp was driving through the intersection of Montague Road and Rock City>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers attorney Louis Anthony Cairo has obtained a $250,000.00 settlement for a cancer survivor who suffered a ruptured breast implant as a result of a car accident. The settlement represents the maximum insurance policy limits on the vehicle that struck Mr. Cairo’s client. Implant Ruptured in Car Crash On October 28, 2015, Mr.>> Read More

Twenty people were killed over the weekend in a New York limo wreck. According to federal officials, this tragic event represents the nation’s deadliest transportation accident in nine years, with additional reports indicating that the limo had failed a safety inspection earlier that month. New York Limo Wreck Kills Twenty On October 6, 2018, a>> Read More

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has announced that her office will be launching a criminal investigation into whether the Rauner administration improperly handled the Legionnaires’ disease crisis at the Illinois Veterans’ Home in Quincy, IL. Were the Deaths Preventable? Legionnaires’ disease – caused by deteriorating plumbing at the Quincy facility that created an environment for the>> Read More