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 fatal crash involving a Subway worker who was speeding and had marijuana in her system must be reconsidered because the wrong legal standard was applied in awarding workers compensation benefits, an Illinois appellate court ruled Monday. In Subway v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District reversed a lower court ruling and set aside a…
Severe injuries reshape workers comp claims
When a workplace injury results in paralysis or other life-altering conditions, the related workers compensation claim often extends far beyond medical care and indemnity, increasingly encompassing the cost and complexity of modifying, or even rebuilding, the injured worker’s home. What was once a relatively rare component of catastrophic claims is becoming more common as advances in medicine result in more…
Chicago jury orders Abbott Labs to pay $70M over baby formula NEC claims
Baby formula maker Abbott Labs has been ordered to pay at least $70 million, after a jury found the company should pay for allegedly not doing enough to prevent four infants from ingesting infant formula that caused them to become severely ill. The verdict came despite the formula manufacturer's assertions that evidence showed that in at least three of the…