Fourteen cars were involved in an early morning multi-vehicle accident on Lake Shore Drive. This incident highlights the challenges involved in pursuing a personal injury claim in a collision with three or more vehicles. Multi-Vehicle Accident Delays Rush Hour Traffic On January 24, 2019, at 6.04 a.m., a total of fourteen vehicles collided with each>> Read More

GWC proudly congratulates its own Timothy J. Keiser and Jacqueline C. Hickey for being named 2019 Rising Stars. The award, which is handed out annually by Super Lawyers, places Tim and Jacqueline among the top 2.5 percent of all attorneys under 40 years old as determined by their peers. Both began their careers at GWC>> Read More

The Illinois workers’ compensation system requires employers and/or their insurance carriers to pay certain benefits to their employees for any injuries and illnesses they sustain during the course and scope of their employment. Many of you may already be familiar with such key workers’ compensation benefits as employer-covered medical treatment and temporary total disability payments,>> Read More

New changes to the Child Passenger Protection Act have gone into effect in Illinois, expanding child safety seat requirements based on age, height, and weight. Illinois Child Passenger Protection Act The Child Passenger Protection Act previously required that all children under the age of eight be secured properly in a child safety restraint system, including>> Read More

GWC attorney Donn P. LaHaie recently obtained a $375,000.00 workers’ compensation settlement for a union telephone lineman. Mr. LaHaie was able to maximize his client’s settlement thanks to his skill in determining Present Cash Value. Union Telephone Lineman Injured Performing Duties of Job In 2013, Mr. LaHaie’s client was performing the duties of his job>> Read More

The mother of a child who died of respiratory failure at Palos Community Hospital has settled her lawsuit against the hospital and a physician for $4.25 million. The parties involved in the lawsuit over the child’s death had settled the matter in late November 2018, though the settlement still awaits formal approval by a Law>> Read More

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing following a recent Indonesian plane crash that killed nearly 200 people. 189 Killed in Indonesian Plane Crash On October 29, 2018, at 6:20 a.m., Lion Air Flight 610 took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia for a scheduled 1-hour-and-10-minute passenger flight>> Read More

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>> Read More