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Workers' Compensation

Essential Workers With COVID-19 Face Workers’ Compensation Uncertainty

Lauded for their service and hailed as everyday heroes, essential workers who get the coronavirus on the job have no guarantee in most states they’ll qualify for workers’ compensation to cover lost wages and medical care. Fewer than one-third of the states have enacted policies that shift the burden of proof for coverage of job-related COVID-19 so workers like first…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 28, 2020
Workers' Compensation

OSHA must release workplace injury and illness data: Court

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration must make public workplace injuries and illnesses records, according to an announcement Wednesday by the Public Citizen Foundation, which sued the federal agency in 2018 over access. The Washington-based organization said the federal agency has until Aug. 18 to provide the data of 237,000 employers, under a federal court ruling that ends a…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 27, 2020
Personal Injury

Gurnee family sues University of Notre Dame after freshman son’s fall causes ‘catastrophic injury’

The parents of a former University of Notre Dame freshman who was severely injured during a party are suing the college, alleging the school put their son at risk by condoning a “quasi-fraternity atmosphere” in an on-campus residence hall. Sean Tennant, of Gurnee, was beginning the second semester of his freshman year Jan. 27, 2019, when he fell about 30…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 27, 2020
Personal Injury

Woman alleges injuries from rough ambulance ride, sues the city

A woman is suing Collinsville, claiming she was injured during an ambulance ride. Antia Roybal filed the lawsuit July 2 in Madison County Circuit against the City of Collinsville, alleging negligence. According to the complaint, Roybal sought medical transport from her Collinsville home to Anderson Hospital in Maryville on July 9, 2019, after falling in her home. She claims she…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 21, 2020
Personal Injury

Railway worker sues over separate workplace injuries

A railway worker claims he suffered two separate workplace injuries when a faulty handbrake slipped and when he allegedly fell on ice. Patrick McFarland filed the complaint June 29 in Madison County Circuit Court against the Terminal Railroad Association (TRRA) and the Norfolk Southern Railway Company, alleging negligence. He alleges his employment and any claim is covered under the Federal…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 21, 2020
Workers' Compensation

Questions remain over effect of COVID presumption laws

Presumption laws for essential workers who acquire COVID-19 may have less of an impact than anticipated on the workers compensation system, but whether it will lead to an increase in claims workers compensation payouts is up for debate, said a group of panelists Thursday at Business Insurance’s webinar, Workers Compensation: Presumption & COVID-19. Workers compensation presumption laws, which presume that…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 20, 2020
Personal Injury

Trucker charged with drug use before Indiana crash killed 4

A semitrailer was going 72 mph when it crashed into a car that had slowed for an Indiana highway construction zone, killing four young siblings, authorities said. The truck's driver, Corey R. Withrow, 31, of Camden, Ohio, has been charged by Wayne County prosecutors with felony counts of driving while intoxicated causing death and reckless homicide for Thursday’s deadly crash…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 20, 2020
Personal Injury

Patient sues chiropractic center over trip, fall

A patient is suing a Belleville chiropractic clinic after she allegedly tripped and fell while walking near the front door. Alice Williams filed suit June 10 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kaesberg Chiropractic Clinic of Belleville. Williams claims she was lawfully on the defendant's premises on Dec. 5, 2018, when she allegedly tripped and fell near the front…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 14, 2020
Personal Injury

Glass company denies liability in suit alleging glass door closed on woman, breaking her femur

St. Jacob Glass denies liability in a woman’s suit alleging she broke her femur when a sliding glass door closed on her as she exited Mid-America St. Louis Airport. Donna Cox filed her complaint on March 25 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against St. Clair County, St. Clair County Public Building Commission, doing business as Mid-America St. Louis Airport,…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
July 13, 2020

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