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$4.9 MILLION SETTLEMENT FOR REFINERY ACCIDENT

Wednesday, 9 December 2009 14:55 by Admin
$4.9 Million Settlement James J. Morici, Jr. negotiated a 4.9 million dollar settlement on behalf of a Lockport area union pipe fitter. The Plaintiff was injured while working at a refinery facility... [More]

$1.8 MILLION VERDICT FOR A LOCAL 137 PIPEFITTER

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:15 by Admin
LOCAL 137 PIPEFITTER'S FALL YIELDS $1,800,000 VERDICT Plaintiff, a 56 year old pipefitter working for a subcontractor to General Electric at Commowealth Edison's Nuclear Power Plant during outage m... [More]

$1.78 MILLION FOR BRICKLAYER INJURED ON CONSTRUCTION SITE

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:40 by Admin
$1.78 Million Verdict In a case presented by attorneys James J. Morici, Jr., a Cook County jury returned a verdict for a bricklayer totaling $1.78 million for injuries sustained when a scaffold he wa... [More]

$190,000 Settlement for an injured Cement Finisher

Friday, 4 December 2009 15:57 by Admin
$190,000 workers' compensation settlement was awarded to a cement finisher who fell into an open hole aftrer standing on a wooden frame which was erected by the employer. The petitioner suffered injur... [More]

Drawbridge worker rescued from gears

Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:28 by Admin
Drawbridge worker rescued from gears September 2, 2010 5:01 AM |  Chicago Fire Department rescuers check out a worker trapped in the gears of the Washington Street drawbridge near the... [More]

Elderly woman killed, 4 other injured in Bartlett crash

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 13:03 by Admin
April 10, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE An elderly woman was killed and four others were injured in a three-vehicle crash that shut down a busy intersection for about an hour Friday evening in... [More]

Boy 12 killed riding bike on Southwest Side

Monday, 19 April 2010 11:11 by Admin
April 19, 2010 5:50 AM A 12-year-old boy riding his bicycle was killed Sunday night after he was struck by a pickup truck in Chicago's Clearing neighborhood. The driver was ticketed. Ryan... [More]

Joliet boy, 4, dies in fire after worrying about mother

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:27 by Admin
Joliet boy, 4, dies in fire after worrying about mother April 8, 2010 8:00 PM As smoke poured out Wednesday night from the first-floor Joliet apartment where 4-year-old Omariya Dishman li... [More]

Alcohol blamed in double fatal northwest suburban crash

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:27 by Admin
April 8, 2010 9:50 PM |  Police said alcohol was a factor in a two-vehicle crash that killed two people and injured another in Barrington Hills Thursday afternoon. A little befo... [More]

Alcohol blamed in double fatal northwest suburban crash

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:15 by Admin
April 8, 2010 9:50 PM |  Police said alcohol was a factor in a two-vehicle crash that killed two people and injured another in Barrington Hills Thursday afternoon. A little befo... [More]

4 hospitalized after car rear-ends CTA

Monday, 29 March 2010 11:43 by Admin
March 29, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE Four people were hospitalized after a vehicle rear-ended a CTA bus on the West Side early Monday. The CTA received a report about 1:05 a.m. about a sout... [More]

$300,000 Settlement for Multiple injury Construction Negligence case

Monday, 15 March 2010 10:22 by Admin
Plaintiff was breaking down auger sections in extreme muddy conditions.  Plaintiff's left foot was stuck in the mud which caused him to trip and fall twisting his knee, leg and injuring his shoul... [More]

Crash survivor struggles with loss of best friend

Thursday, 11 March 2010 12:18 by Admin
March 10, 2010 10:53 PM |  The father of a 17-year-old Joliet girl who survived a fatal collision in New Lenox this week said his daughter is struggling to heal from losing her best fr... [More]

Woman hits trooper while talking on cell phone

Monday, 1 March 2010 15:43 by Admin
Cops: Woman who hit trooper was talking on cell phone March 1, 2010 2:01 PM Scene of the crash that injured a state trooper. (Tribune / Chris Sweda) A woman who struck and seriously inj... [More]

8-car crash snarls traffice in far NW suburbs

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:32 by Admin
January 26, 2010 12:26 PM  An eight-car crash shut down part of Algonquin Road in the far northwest suburbs for about 90 minutes and caused minor injuries this morning in Barrington Hil... [More]

Weight led to plane crash that killed 6 people

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 10:19 by Admin
Daily Herald January 26, 2010 KENOVA, W.Va. -- A small, private plane was overloaded and improperly balanced when it crashed and killed all six aboard in West Virginia a year ago, the National Tra... [More]

CTA bus collides with vehicle

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 09:16 by Admin
January 22, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A CTA bus collided with a vehicle on the North Side, injuring the bus driver in the Lake View neighborhood Friday morning. At 7:22 a.m., a No. 9X Ashla... [More]

Truck strikes van carrying Chicago-area family, killing 2

Monday, 25 January 2010 10:40 by Admin
Truck strikes van carrying Chicago-area family, killing 2 January 24, 2010 10:46 PM Two people in an extended family returning to the Chicago area from a Georgia kite-flying convention died ear... [More]

Pedestrain, 85, killed by car in Albany Park

Friday, 22 January 2010 11:10 by Admin
January 22, 2010 5:35 AM An 85-year-old male pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side by a vehicle whose driver didn't have a license, Chi... [More]

Motorist killed by frieght train in downtown Wheaton identified

Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:34 by Admin
January 21, 2010 2:24 PM Wheaton police are investigating a fatal accident involving a 70-year-old man who drove his car around a lowered gate and was struck by a Union freight train Thursday ... [More]

4 hurt in South Side crash

Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:30 by Admin
January 21, 2010 2:36 PM Four people have been hospitalized, three in critical or serious condition, after they were involved in a crash this morning in the Prairie Shores&nb... [More]

1 killed, 1 hurt in Northwest side crash

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:39 by Admin
One person was killed and another injured in a traffic crash this morning in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, Chicago police said. The dead person was identified as Richard Smart,... [More]

Girls eye punctured while being Immunized

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:51 by Admin
Lawsuit: Girl stuck in eye during immunization January 11, 2010 5:15 PM  A girl taken to a West Side health clinic to be immunized in 2007 instead ended up with the needle in her left... [More]

Basketball star injured in crash

Tuesday, 5 January 2010 11:34 by Admin
Ex-Nets star Jayson Williams injured in crash January 5, 2010 8:25 AM  Tribune News ServicesFormer NBA player Jayson Williams struck a tree with his SUV on Tuesday after veering off an... [More]

Man Trapped under Steel at Mundelein Business

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:53 by Admin
A 44-year-old Riverwoods man was trapped under approximately 5,000 lbs. of sheet metal for over an hour at a business in Mundelein before he was found by the business owner and airlifted to Advocate... [More]

Man Dies after a car accident

Friday, 4 December 2009 16:07 by Admin
Man dies following auto crash in Elk Grove Village December 3, 2009 9:41 PM | No Comments A 58-year-old man died this morning following a traffic crash in Elk Grove Village, authorities ... [More]

$50,400 for an injured factory dock worker

Friday, 4 December 2009 15:14 by Admin
$50,400 for an injured factory worker who suffered from a torn rotator cuff.

$66,000 Settlement for an injured factory worker

Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:21 by Admin
$66,000 settlement was awarded to a petitioner who suffered from injuries to his arm. The petitioner was pushing/pulling a heavy cart when he injured his arm.

$28,500 Settlement for an injured City Electrician

Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:34 by Admin
$28,500 workers' compensation settlement for a city electrician who suffered injury to the left knee while exiting a work vehicle.

Construction Worker Killed on Job Site

Tuesday, 1 December 2009 11:07 by Admin
Worker killed in accident at water reclamation site November 30, 2009 9:37 PM | A 38-year-old man was killed this afternoon in an apparent construction accident on the grounds of the Metr... [More]