Goldberg Weisman Cairo partner Michael D. Fisher and attorney Bennett J. Baker have settled a lawsuit on behalf of a carpenter who was injured in a scaffold accident on a construction site for a [...]
Goldberg Weisman Cairo partner Michael D. Fisher and attorney Michael W. Kopsick have obtained a $1,725,000.00 settlement for their client, a union carpenter, who suffered extreme injuries during [...]
GWC partner Michael D. Fisher has procured a $650,000.00 settlement for his client, a union carpenter, who tore the labrum of his left shoulder during the construction of a roof deck. GWC sued [...]
Although construction sites are a naturally dangerous place to work, employers are legally obligated to provide construction workers with reasonably safe worksites. Certain construction worker [...]
A Joliet construction contractor, P.T. Ferro, was recently cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for exposing employees to unsafe trench working conditions. This is [...]
Two West Loop construction sites have neighboring residents concerned for their safety. On Saturday, Aug. 6, two separate car accidents occurred around the sites at the corner of Washington [...]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a Norridge roofing contractor and issued a fine of $115,000 for exposing workers to fall hazards on two Chicago area jobsites within [...]
A contract worker was killed and another worker was critically injured Saturday when a wall collapsed at Ford Motor Company’s Chicago Assembly Plant located on the Far South Side of the [...]
On Aug. 26, 2009, a construction superintendent was surveying an interstitial ceiling space in a high-rise building for the purpose of designing a mechanical system to be retrofit into the [...]
According to the Winnetka Fire Department, a 68-year-old construction worker was killed Wednesday, Nov. 4, in a fall accident while working on a house in Winnetka in the 300 block of Linden [...]
