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Accident Victims with Only “Soft Tissue Injuries” Gaining Long Overdue Justice
Wednesday, October 31st 2007 - For the second time in recent months, the personal injury law firm of Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, Ltd has proven that jurors have the capacity to prove an insurance company wrong regarding the chronic impact of certain soft tissue injuries.
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Jury Awards Local 93 Plumber $11 Million after 30 Foot Fall from Catwalk
Thursday, June 7th 2007 - At forty-nine, he had been a union plumber spanning over twenty years on the job until a brisk February day in 2003 when a thirty-foot fall left him in critical condition with a fractured heel, fractured ankles, multiple severe fractures to both legs, three fractured vertebrae in his back and a herniated disc in his neck. He fell because a general contractor and the consulting engineer permitted metal grating to be installed contrary to the jobsite’s plans and specifications.
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Outreach Alert in Support of House Bill 3445
Saturday, April 7th 2007 - Nursing Home Liability Insurance
Despite an unprecedented increase of citations against nursing homes
for violations that pose a risk of injury and death to patients, the
requirement of liability insurance has been ignored; prevented through
strong lobbying by corporations and the nursing home industry itself,
and set aside by lawmakers who until now, were unwilling to enact
legislation that protect our most frail and aging.
Please join Horwitz in support of House Bill 3445. Find out how you can help.
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Property Owner “Hedges” Bet Against Injured Teamster
Friday, March 23rd 2007 - Justice for this Teamster did not come easy.
Six and a half years ago, a 58 year old Teamster from Local 179 made a
routine delivery to a location owned by Stonegate Properties; Hoffman
Estates. The pathway leading back to his truck required him to navigate
a large, poorly maintained curbside hedge that blocked his view into
the street. As he reached out to pull the untrimmed hedge back to check
for on-coming traffic his hand was struck by a passing car.
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The Unacceptable Truth About Nursing Home Falls
Wednesday, March 7th 2007 - An unacceptable, estimated 75% of nursing home and long-term care residents fall each year (twice the number of falls suffered by the elderly living independently within their communities), 1,800 of which will be fatal.
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Labor Bytes Streaming Content Continues the Conversation
Sunday, January 28th 2007 - Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates continue the dialogue between labor leaders and workers through Labor Bytes, an online audio program hosted by Rosemary Roberts
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Worker Recovers Lost Wages and 4-Yr College Degree
Wednesday, January 24th 2007 - As insult often follows injury, his employer’s workers’ compensation provider had gone bankrupt and no new coverage had been obtained.
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Local 916 Carpenter Recovers $2 Million
Monday, November 20th 2006 - A local 916 carpenter reached an approximately $2 Million settlement shortly after opening statements during a jury trial regarding an on-the-job injury that left his leg fractured in three places.
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Who are the Good and Bad Automobile Insurance Companies?
Friday, June 9th 2006 - That our law firm, or any other in the state, should have to engage representatives of insurance companies in pitiful games of hoop-gymnastics, deferral marathons, or blatant disregard for the law -- a large portion of our practice -- suggests an industry in dire need of oversight that appears to be ‘out of sight’.
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Healthcare Drug Benefits for Union Members at Risk
Sunday, May 14th 2006 - If brand name pharmaceutical companies get their way, your ability to purchase new generic prescription drugs at a reduced cost over expensive name brands will disappear, and along with it, future union drug benefits that remotely resemble those afforded union families today.
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Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect
Saturday, April 8th 2006 - The House That Terror (and Your Tax Dollars) Built:
Senior Neglect and Abuse More the Norm, Not the Exception
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Suffering the Misery of Not Having Enough Insurance
Sunday, April 2nd 2006 - Just as an umbrella protects us from a downpour, an Umbrella Liability Policy can save you from getting financially drenched.
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A Merry Christmas for Pharma; a stocking full of coal for Americans
Thursday, January 5th 2006 - Without fear of liability and legal recourse for injured consumers, manufacturers of drugs become the sole guardians over the number of deaths and injuries that are acceptable in the course of producing and administering new drugs and vaccines; the sole proprietors over the risk-to-benefit ratio (deaths Vs lives saved) that meets both demand and profit margins.
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Little-Known Federal Law Protects Subcontracted Engineer in
Thursday, September 8th 2005 - Employed by Central Intermodal (a subcontractor for the railroad at the time), the engineer was working at the Burlington Northern rail yard at 38th and Kedzie in Chicago in 2002 when he fell, fracturing both ankles, one of which required fusion of the bone.
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Leaders Unite Against Wal-Mart Policies
Thursday, November 10th 2005 - Last month in Chicago, union and labor representatives joined political and faith-based community leaders in a first of its kind forum to discuss the alleged unfair labor practices and policies of America’s #1 private employer, Wal-Mart.
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Laborer Recovers 1.3 Million for Hip Injuries.
Tuesday, November 8th 2005 - It was the winter of 2000 and work was hard to come by, so when offered a job by North Wall Erectors, he considered himself lucky. But after a near-fatal fall left him with a fractured hip, he knew his luck had changed.
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Jury Validates Trucker’s Three-Year Battle for Justice
Thursday, October 6th 2005 - A Cook County jury of twelve awarded $2,031,513 (August 2005) to a 48-year old man from Teamsters 705 for an injury that ended his career as a truck driver.
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Choosing Oil Companies over the Health of Americans;
Friday, July 8th 2005 - Joining a majority of senators who voted to pass legislation immunizing the oil companies from prosecution in 2003 (or favor-by-payback) were Illinois representatives, Jerry Wheeler and Jerry Costello¹.
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New Workers’ Compensation Law a Win for All Sides
Saturday, June 25th 2005 - The needs of working people and employers for a fair and adequate Workers’ Compensation policy were finally addressed with the passing of House Bill 2137; legislation that was signed yesterday by Governor Blagojevich.
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