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Workers' Compensation

Medicare set-aside reporting rule signals major change for comp

Employers, insurers and claimants should start planning for changes to how Medicare’s liabilities are accounted for in workers compensation settlements, experts say. The changes, which will remove the reporting threshold in settlements that include Medicare set-asides and define penalty amounts, could increase the likelihood of significant fines for noncompliance and prolong settlement negotiations, they say. The Centers for Medicare &…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
June 10, 2024
Personal Injury

Parents sue obstetrician over alleged negligence during childbirth resulting in permanent injury

In a recent court filing, plaintiffs Ariana Williams and Brandon Steels have lodged a medical malpractice complaint against Dr. Joseph Thomas, an obstetrician, alleging that his actions during the delivery of their son, Jarron Steels, resulted in permanent injuries. The complaint was filed on May 24, 2024, in the Circuit Court of Cook County. The plaintiffs claim that Dr. Thomas's…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
June 4, 2024
Personal Injury

Family of woman hurt in laundry room gas vapor explosion can’t use IL enviro law to sue gas station owners

The Illinois Supreme Court says a woman who was severely injured in an explosion caused by gasoline vapors that had traveled through a sewer pipe to the laundry room of her condo building from a gas station more than a mile away can't use an Illinois environmental protection law to sue the owners of the gas station for allegedly allowing…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
June 3, 2024
Personal Injury

Man fails his appeal in property injury case

Sergio Lopez's premises liability and negligence complaint against Bruce Wallenberg and 1826 W. Erie LLC was dismissed by the Circuit Court of Cook County on grounds of lack of due diligence in serving the defendants. The complaint, filed on June 24, 2020, alleged that Lopez sustained injuries from a fall down an unsafe staircase at a property owned by the…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
June 3, 2024
Personal Injury

Woman sues NuWave for severe burns caused by defective pressure cooker

Evelyn Recinos has filed a lawsuit against NuWave, LLC in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under case number 1:24-cv-03910, on May 14, 2024. The lawsuit centers around injuries Recinos sustained from using a NuWave pressure cooker that allegedly malfunctioned. According to the complaint, Recinos suffered first- and second-degree burns to both legs on June…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
May 29, 2024
Personal Injury

Family Sues Mead Johnson Over Premature Infant’s Severe Illness Linked to Formula

In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago Division, case number 1:24-cv-03858 was filed on May 13, 2024. Plaintiff Teddi House, individually and as parent and next friend of Nevaiah Mayle, a minor, is suing defendants Mead Johnson & Company, LLC and Mead Johnson Nutrition Company. The lawsuit centers around injuries suffered by Baby Nevaiah…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
May 28, 2024
Personal Injury

Zantac Not a Cause of Woman’s Cancer, Jury Says in First Trial Over Drug

A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making similar allegations. The jury in Cook County, Illinois circuit court agreed with arguments from drugmakers GSK and Boehringer Ingelheim that the plaintiff, 89-year-old Illinois resident Angela Valadez, had…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
May 28, 2024
Personal Injury

Man accuses Illinois Central Railroad Company of Negligence

Alberto Gonzalez has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Central Railroad Company (ICRR) in the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois. The case, identified as 1:24-cv-03573, was filed on May 2, 2024. Gonzalez alleges that ICRR failed to provide him with a safe work environment and equipment, leading to his injury. Represented by Casey Jones Law Firm and…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
May 21, 2024
Personal Injury

Chicago jury orders downstate hospital system, dialysis clinic to pay $41M to lawyer who suffered stroke, paralysis

A jury in Chicago has ordered Peoria-based OSF Healthcare and other medical care providers to pay $41 million to a 72-year-old central Illinois lawyer and his wife, after the man was left incapacitated by a catastrophic stroke, allegedly as a result of "mismanagement" of his medical care by physicians and other health care providers at facilities in central Illinois. The…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
May 21, 2024

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