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Multi-Vehicle Accident on Lake Shore Drive Involves Fourteen Cars

Fourteen cars were involved in an early morning multi-vehicle accident on Lake Shore Drive. This incident highlights the challenges involved in pursuing...

GWC’s Timothy J. Keiser and Jacqueline C. Hickey Named Rising Stars

GWC proudly congratulates its own Timothy J. Keiser and Jacqueline C. Hickey for being named 2019 Rising Stars. The award, which is...

What Is a Wage Differential in the Illinois Workers’ Compensation System?

The Illinois workers’ compensation system requires employers and/or their insurance carriers to pay certain benefits to their employees for any injuries and...

New Illinois Booster Seat Laws

On January 1, 2019, new changes to the Child Passenger Protection Act went into effect in Illinois. These changes expanded child safety...

GWC Obtains $375k Workers’ Compensation Settlement for Union Telephone Lineman

GWC attorney Donn P. LaHaie recently obtained a $375,000.00 workers’ compensation settlement for a union telephone lineman. Mr. LaHaie was able to...

$4.25 Million Settlement for Child’s Death at Palos Community Hospital

The mother of a child who died of respiratory failure at Palos Community Hospital has settled her lawsuit against the hospital and...

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Over Indonesian Plane Crash

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing following a recent Indonesian plane crash that killed nearly 200...

GWC Obtains $1.3 Million Settlement for Injured Painter

GWC’s Louis Anthony Cairo recently obtained a $1.3 million settlement for a painter who was injured after falling twelve feet off of an insufficiently guarded second-floor staircase landing. Twelve-Foot Fall from Landing In June 2015, Mr. Cairo’s client, a professional painter, arrived at a new housing development to paint a residential home under construction. On the date in question, the painter was standing on the second-floor landing of a staircase, spray-painting the crown molding around the door of the master...