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Workers' Compensation

New law includes warehouse worker safety provisions

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a budget bill Monday that included provisions addressing the increasingly popular topic of reducing injuries among warehouse workers. Pritzker signed S.B. 1720, a budget implementation act for fiscal year 2023 that also creates the Warehouse Safety Standards Task Force. The task force is charged with providing the governor and lawmakers quarterly updates about its findings,…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 17, 2023
Workers' Compensation

Issues emerge as opioids continue to drop in comp

Opioid prescribing in workers compensation nosedived to an all-time low last year, a new report finds, but experts say the picture is complicated, with other drugs taking over the pain management space, among other factors. AmTrust Financial Services Inc. reported in October that only 15.2% of its workers compensation claims for 2021 involved an opioid prescription, down from 60% in…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 17, 2023
Personal Injury

Man sues over alleged injuries from DeWalt router

A man is suing a Wood River tool store after he allegedly suffered injuries from a "defective" router. Plaintiff William P. Sloan filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against Waltco Tools Inc. and DeWalt Industrial Tool Company. According to the complaint, Sloan purchased a DeWalt router from Waltco Tools in Wood River. He claims the router had…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 10, 2023
Personal Injury

Rudolf denies dismissal in injury suit filed by Belleville attorney’s daughter

Statutes of limitation don’t operate on weekends according to Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf, who ruled that Abigail Hoerner could proceed with an injury suit she filed on a Monday. Rudolf entered an order on Dec. 28 denying a motion of defendant Quinnton Saunders to dismiss Hoerner's complaint. Hoerner claims Saunders threw a table tennis paddle that struck her on June…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 9, 2023
Personal Injury

Man sues Target over bathroom stall collapse

A Clinton County man is suing the department store chain Target, claiming a bathroom stall collapsed and caused him to fall on the floor. In the lawsuit, Richard Boien accuses Target of negligence. He claims he suffered "serious, painful and permanent injuries" as a result of the fall in November 2020 at the Target in Shiloh. Boien claims he suffered…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 3, 2023
Personal Injury

Patient claims misinterpreted x-ray delayed cancer diagnosis

A patient claims his x-ray was misinterpreted, which allegedly delayed his lung cancer diagnosis. Plaintiff Michael Colin Murphy filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Jay Wigboldy, M.D., Central Illinois Radiological Associates, LTD., and St. Elizabeth's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, doing business as HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital, citing…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 29, 2022
Personal Injury

Motorist alleges school bus driver caused Fairview Heights crash

A motorist is suing Illinois Central School Bus following a collision in Fairview Heights. Plaintiff Antonio Green filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against defendants Clarence Bell and Illinois Central School Bus, LLC, citing negligence and carelessness. According to the lawsuit, on June 24, 2021, Green was driving westbound on Bunkum Road in Fairview Heights and…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 28, 2022

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