A judge has given approval to city officials to complete the demolition of the site of a LaSalle building collapse. LaSalle Building Collapse Site Empty On the late morning of July 19, 2021, the rear of a building located at 1001 1st Street in LaSalle, IL spontaneously toppled. Following the incident, authorities closed off a>> Read More

Four companies, including the nation’s three biggest drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson, are on the verge of reaching an opioid settlement worth $26 billion. Details of Opioid Settlement Pending Lawyers for local governments across the United States announced the pending opioid settlement on July 20, 2021. The settling parties include drug manufacturer Johnson &>> Read More

A federal court has approved a workers’ compensation retaliation settlement for a former truck driver at a Northbrook waste management company. $95,000.00 in Lost Wages Ordered On July 6, 2021, U.S. District Court Judge Manish S. Shah of the Northern District of Illinois entered a consent judgment and order directing Advanced Disposal Services Solid Waste>> Read More

Three people have been charged for their role in a duck boat accident that killed seventeen people near Branson, MO in 2018. Captain, Two Employees Charged On July 16, 2021, a prosecutor charged a captain and two other employees over seventeen deaths in a duck boat accident on July 19, 2018. The duck boat sank>> Read More

A Batavia Legionnaires’ disease lawsuit has been filed by a Geneva man who claims he contracted the potentially deadly illness from a senior living facility. Fourteen Sickened in Outbreak Personal injury attorneys representing 70-year-old Geneva resident Terry Irvin filed the Batavia Legionnaires’ disease lawsuit in Kane County on June 14, 2021. The defendant is Covenant>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers LLC congratulates its hardworking attorneys and staff for obtaining settlements topping $3.8 million during the month of June. 36 Settlements in June 2021 GWC successfully resolved 36 cases in June 2021, including nearly $2 million for third-party injury lawsuits and more than $1.7 million for workers’ compensation claims. Some of the noteworthy>> Read More

A government study shows that traffic deaths in the United States increased in 2020, even though Americans drove less because of the pandemic. Over 38,000 Traffic Deaths According to a report issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on June 3, 2021, there were an estimated 38,680 traffic deaths in the United States>> Read More