GWC attorneys Colin OMalley and Joseph Sorce today settled the lawsuit for an apprentice millwright injured during the 2005 re-tooling at the Chrysler Assembly Plant in Belvidere, Illinois. Apprentice millwright, James Susan, lost his left hand when he attempted to take a measurement alongside an active conveyor chain. During four years of litigation, the defendants>> Read More

Recently, the Chicago Tribune ran an article about an undocumented non-union roofer who fell approximately twenty feet at a job site, rendering him a quadriplegic. The worker was told that his company had no workers compensation insurance. Although Illinois law requires most employers to purchase workers compensation insurance for their employees, this story is a>> Read More

The Illinois injury lawyers at GWC Injury Lawyers prove once again that when commitment and preparation meet skill and passion, great things happen for their injury clients. The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association recently featured two noteworthy results, achieved by GWC lawyers, which underscore this concept: The two featured cases are Goldstein and the Estate of>> Read More

Joseph Sorce, a partner at GWC, wrote the following account about the tragic death of Chuck Ingolia. Joe and Larry Weisman worked tirelessly for more than 4 years, culminating in a 3-week trial, to protect Chucks widow and vindicate Chucks legacy. For Larry and Joe, this case became a personal battle against one of Illinois>> Read More

On March 10, 2011 Larry Ruder and Colin OMalley, GWC Partners, obtained the highest verdict against a local public entity in the history of McHenry county. The verdict, $900,000, is also the second highest civil damages verdict in the history of McHenry county and the largest in McHenry county in the last 10 years. The>> Read More

One of the last deadly construction accidents of 2012 happened in early December in New York State. Authorities say that workers at a Bronx construction site were using a crane to lift a flatbed containing a massive air conditioning unit. The workers failed to secure the cooling unit however and it slit off the truck>> Read More

Federal regulators recently cited an Illinois construction company for safety violations which exposed its plant workers to the risk of suffering serious workplace injuries. Authorities say that History Construction Management LLC, of Odell, allowed its workers to be exposed to airborne lead at levels exceeding 40 times the safe limit. It is unclear whether any>> Read More

WGN-TV reports that a 25-year-old man was injured in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood during a construction accident. The construction worker was performing rehab work with a cutting torch which may have caused an explosion. The Chicago Fire Department received reports of the explosion and fire around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at the 1800 block of S. Kostner>> Read More

An Illinois iron worker recently received a $64 million jury verdict after suffering severe injuries in a construction accident. The iron worker fell at the Dekalb construction site and suffered a variety of injuries including closed head trauma and a spinal cord injury. The jury found that the contractors failed to provide a safe workplace at>> Read More

The death of a construction worker last September was an accident, a jury recently held. The man’s death happened at a roadside construction site on Illinois Route 8 near Legion Road. An Illinois State Trooper said that the man and the bulldozer operator had been working together all day before the fatal construction accident. The>> Read More

In addition to state law protections, most construction workers are covered under the regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act). This federal law was enacted to protect workers across the country from being injured or killed at work. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforces the Act primarily by>> Read More

Many Illinois construction companies seek to shift the blame for a construction accident to an injured worker. A worker can help counter these tactics by demonstrating that there were OSHA violations present at a job site. Violations of federal workplace safety laws can show that an employer had a history of lax safety standards which may>> Read More