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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Mental health professionals at Choate Center in Anna diagnosed Leslie Potter’s strokes as schizophrenia and damaged him with treatments, according to his mother Michelle Potter of Texas and grandmother Elaine Dohman of Illinois. Their counsel Randolph Kretchmar of Chicago alleged due process violations in a complaint at U.S. district court on Jan. 30. According to the lawsuit, Leslie resided with…
Illinois bills address comp fee schedules, interest on awards in contested claims
Illinois lawmakers are considering bills that would nix the state’s workers compensation fee schedule in 2026 and replace it with another, and add guidelines in workers comp code on attorney’s fee for arbitrated claims. H.B. 2840, introduced Wednesday, would make existing medical fee schedules inoperative after Aug. 31, 2026, and calls on the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission to establish a…
IL Sup Court upholds changes to workers’ comp law; Asbestos, other toxic exposure suits from decades past not barred
Illinois' altered workers' comp law doesn't block asbestos plaintiffs and others who discover diseases allegedly caused by workplace exposures to toxic substances from suing their former employers, even if the alleged disease-causing exposure happened many decades in the past, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. On Jan. 24, the Illinois Supreme Court sided with the family of a man who…