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Drowsy Driving Widespread According to AAA Study

A new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety finds that drowsy driving is a widespread problem, playing a much larger...

Grubhub Lawsuit: Driver Is Independent Contractor, Not Employee

A US judge in San Francisco recently ruled that a former driver for Grubhub Inc. was an independent contractor and not an...

Study Shows Workers’ Compensation Benefits Down in Illinois

Workers’ compensation is a system of benefits that is mandated by the state of Illinois for all injured workers employed in the...

Fourth Fatal Amtrak Train Crash in Less Than Two Months

An Amtrak passenger train crashed into a stationary freight train in South Carolina, leaving two dead and 116 people injured. This incident...

Train Crash Involving Republican Lawmakers, Garbage Truck Leaves One Dead

One person was killed and six others were injured following a Virginia train crash in which an Amtrak train that had been...

GWC’s Colin J. O’Malley Discusses Troubled Barrel Reconditioning Industry

GWC Partner Colin J. O'Malley was recently featured in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article examining the troubled industrial barrel reconditioning industry. The newspaper...

Panera Cream Cheese Recall Announced for Possible Listeria Contamination

On January 28, 2018, Panera Bread announced that it was voluntarily recalling its cream cheese products after one of the varieties tested...

Medical Devices Largely Unregulated, Recent Analysis Finds

Implanted medical devices are increasingly commonplace in the modern world. In fact, approximately one in ten Americans have at least one medical...

Chicago City Council Takes Further Action to Stop Texting While Driving

The Chicago City Council, a subcommittee of which had recently held a hearing to discuss changing current to allow police to use...