Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC is a law firm serving Indiana and Illinois. We concentrate in Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury Law and Social Security Disability.
Our firm is recognized as a leader in Workers’ Compensation and Personal Injury litigation, with attorneys whose experience spans decades.
Our location in Crown Point, Indiana gives us the privileged position of being able to represent clients throughout Indiana, the Chicago metropolitan area and Illinois.
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A Florida woman whose premature newborn son died in Florida after contracting an illness allegedly caused by consuming cow's milk-based infant formula, administered by medical staff in a Florida hospital can't use Cook County's famously plaintiff-friendly courts to sue Abbott Labs, the formula's Lake County-based manufacturer, a state appeals panel has ruled. In the decision, the appellate justices said they…
Japan Brake can’t stop Madison County asbestos lawsuit: Appeals court
A Japanese automotive brakes maker can't escape becoming a target for asbestos lawsuits in Illinois courts, a state appeals panel has ruled. On Sept. 8, a three-justice panel of the Illinois Fifth District Appellate Court sided against manufacturer Japan Brake Industrial Company in its bid to exit a lawsuit brought by the family of plaintiff Donald R. Taylor over claims…
Illinois court overturns $165K comp medical award
An Illinois appeals court overturned a $165,353 workers compensation medical award and more than $46,000 in legal fees and costs, ruling that an injured worker was entitled only to reimbursement for amounts actually paid to his medical providers. In Jenkins v. McLaughlin Body Co., the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, ruled Wednesday that a lower court improperly based its…