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GWC Obtains $1.3 Million Settlement for Injured Painter

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 the date in question, the painter was standing on the second-floor landing of a staircase, spray-painting the crown molding around the door of the master...

GWC Obtains Settlement Worth $2.5 Million for Family of Deceased Union Electrician

GWC Injury Lawyers partners Daniel H. Streckert and Joseph P. Sorce have obtained a settlement worth $2,500,000.00 for the family of a...

Three CTA Workers Injured in “Arc Blast,” Highlighting Danger of Construction Work

Three Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) workers have been injured, two of them critically, in an “arc blast” while doing maintenance work at...

GWC Attorneys Obtain Over $1.1 Million for Union Electrician

GWC Injury Lawyers attorneys Bennett J. Baker and Michael A. Knobloch recently obtained a $1,137,500.00 settlement for a union electrician who injured his right...

Florida Bridge Collapse Leaves Six Dead

A newly-erected 174-foot-long section of a pedestrian bridge recently collapsed onto a six-lane highway in a suburb of Miami, FL, leaving six...

GWC Secures Settlement Worth Over $2 Million for Union Sheet Metal Worker

GWC Partners Michael D. Fisher and Joseph P. Sorce have secured a settlement worth over $2 million for a union sheet metal...

GWC Obtains Settlement for Union Carpenter Worth $1,326,682.00

A union carpenter who seriously fractured his ankle on a job site recently obtained a settlement worth $1,326,682.00 thanks to the work of...

GWC’s Bennett J. Baker Obtains Settlement Worth $2.16 Million for Injured Ironworker

GWC Injury Lawyers attorney Bennett J. Baker recently obtained a $1.6 million settlement for an ironworker who severely injured his legs at...

Scaffold Accident on Construction Site Settled for More Than $4,318,000.00

GWC Injury Lawyers partner Michael D. Fisher and attorney Bennett J. Baker have settled a lawsuit on behalf of a carpenter who...