An Amtrak train derailed off of an overpass in the state of Washington, killing at least three people and injuring dozens of others. Inaugural Run of New Amtrak Line On the morning of December 18, 2017, Amtrak Train No. 501 was making the inaugural run of a new train service from Seattle to Portland. At>> Read More

GWC Injury Lawyers attorney Dana Blumthal recently obtained a workers’ compensation settlement worth $1,029,759.00 for a former receptionist suffering from permanent injuries. This is one of the largest workers’ compensation settlements in Illinois history. Two Herniated Discs In August 2010, Ms. Blumthal’s client was employed as a receptionist at a suburban bank, which had a>> Read More

Thanks to significant advances in medicine in the past decades, Americans are living longer, with nearly 15 percent of the population age 65 or older. With this spike in the aging population has come a significant increase in the need for long-term health care. Rather than relying upon expensive hospital stays or moves to nursing>> Read More

More and more employers are choosing to hire independent contractors instead of traditional employees. What is the difference between the two? And how does your status as an independent contractor impact your ability to receive workers’ compensation benefits? What Is an Independent Contractor? You are likely familiar with the concept of a traditional employee: Somebody>> Read More

GWC Partners Michael D. Fisher and Joseph P. Sorce have secured a settlement worth over $2 million for a union sheet metal worker who was seriously injured when he fell through the deteriorated roof of a bowling alley. A Fall Through a Roof GWC’s client, a 46-year-old sheet metal worker, was working on a large>> Read More

A pedestrian has died twelve days after being struck by a motor vehicle making a left-hand turn in the West Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, authorities say. Humboldt Park Man Fatally Struck On the afternoon of November 18, 2017, 62-year-old Johnnie L. Osborne was crossing Loomis Boulevard when a 34-year-old woman driving a 2012>> Read More

A Philadelphia jury has just awarded $27.8 million to a woman who claimed to have been injured by the blood-thinning drug Xarelto. The verdict marketed the first court loss over the drug for Johnson & Johnson and Bayer A.G., who are currently facing thousands of Xarelto lawsuit plaintiffs with similar complaints. Hospitalized for Gastrointestinal Bleeding>> Read More