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Workers' Compensation

Worker accuses freight car systems provider of wrongful termination

A Madison man is suing a freight car company, alleging retaliation and wrongful termination. Don L. Garrett filed a complaint Dec. 19 in Madison County Circuit Court against Amsted Rail Company Inc., alleging the defendant willfully and wantonly disregarded the plaintiff's rights. According to the complaint, on March 2, Garrett was terminated from his employment. The suit says Garrett has…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 7, 2019
Workers' Compensation

All Mayoral Candidates Say Alderman Should Not Oversee Comp Program

All 14 candidates for Chicago mayor agree that the embattled head of the city's workers' compensation program should step aside or that the program should be managed by a separate city agency. The Chicago Sun-Times asked the candidates if longtime Alderman Ed Burke, who as head of the City Council's Finance Committee oversees the comp program, should step down from that…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 28, 2018
Personal InjuryWorkers' Compensation

COA: Negligence claim rightly denied in fatal heart attack wreck

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment to a man’s estate in a negligence lawsuit, finding his incapacity to drive due to a heart attack was not reasonably foreseeable. While driving to Bloomington for Thanksgiving with Wanda Denson as a passenger in his vehicle, Delmer Dillard suddenly declared he was not feeling well, slumped over and…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 27, 2018
Workers' Compensation

AmTrust: Restaurant injuries cost employees 30 days of work on average

AmTrust Financial Services has released a new report that finds that injured restaurant workers miss an average of 30 days of work. The AmTrust Restaurant Risk Report is based on more than 84,006 claims AmTrust collected from restaurant clients between 2013 and 2017. Highlights of the report include: Cuts, punctures and/or scrapes account for a third of all restaurant claims…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 27, 2018
Personal Injury

Tensions, confusion, lawsuits mount concerning Sterigenics emissions in Willowbrook

Willowbrook Mayor Frank Trilla said with tensions and confusion mounting over claims surrounding emissions from a local medical device sterilization plant, his community has "more questions today than we had three months ago.” “Nothing is more important than finding out from U.S. EPA officials were our residents safe before this, are they safe now and will they be safe in…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 18, 2018
Workers' Compensation

Progressive aldermen move to strip Burke of $100M-a-year worker’s comp program

Progressive aldermen moved Wednesday to strip the Finance Committee chaired by Ald. Edward Burke (14th) of control over Chicago’s $100 million-a-year worker’s compensation program. The move by Ald. John Arena (45th) and his Progressive Caucus colleagues comes nearly two weeks after the unprecedented federal raid on Burke’s ward and City Hall offices. Sources have told the Chicago Sun-Times that the…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 18, 2018
Workers' Compensation

Woman who severed finger on the job must seek redress via Worker’s Compensation Act

A woman whose finger was severed in an accident at an Elkhart County assembly plant must seek relief via the Indiana Worker’s Compensation Act after the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of her negligence complaint against the company she worked for at the time of the injury. In Eshanya Walls v. Markley Enterprises, Inc., 18A-CT-266, temporary staffing agency…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 17, 2018
Personal Injury

Trial lawyers: EPA admission of fault in Sterigenics emissions measuring won’t matter to lawsuits vs company

As federal environmental regulators reassess their controversial measurements of emissions from the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook, a group of lawyers representing Willowbrook residents are continuing unfazed in their lawsuits against the company, based largely on findings in a federal report that relied heavily on the allegedly faulty data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Since September, lawsuits against Sterigenics have…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 12, 2018

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