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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An insurer has no duty to indemnify a construction company over a carpenter’s fatal fall because an employee injury exclusion bars coverage, an Illinois appeals court ruled Wednesday. Ramiro Godinez, a carpenter arriving for his first day at a Waukegan hotel construction project on Sept. 19, 2017, fell more than 20 feet while retrieving tools from a plywood box raised…
Worker keeps comp benefits for fall in sandals while heading to charge phone
An Illinois appeals court on Monday upheld workers compensation benefits for an ice cream plant employee who broke his foot while walking in sandals to a break room to charge his phone. Shawn Anderson had clocked in at Ice Cream Specialties Inc. on Oct. 3, 2022, but had not changed into his work boots when he headed toward the break…
Uber can’t use widow’s user agreement to block suit over husband’s expressway death
Uber can't use its user agreement to block a lawsuit from the widow of a man who died while riding in a rideshare vehicle on a Chicago expressway, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. On Sept. 24, the state high court unanimously ruled Uber can't send to arbitration the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of Mark Geller, who…