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$4.9 MILLION SETTLEMENT FOR REFINERY ACCIDENT

Wednesday, 9 December 2009 14:55 by Admin
$4.9 Million Settlement James J. Morici, Jr. negotiated a 4.9 million dollar settlement on behalf of a Lockport area union pipe fitter. The Plaintiff was injured while working at a refinery facility... [More]

$1.8 MILLION VERDICT FOR A LOCAL 137 PIPEFITTER

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 15:15 by Admin
LOCAL 137 PIPEFITTER'S FALL YIELDS $1,800,000 VERDICT Plaintiff, a 56 year old pipefitter working for a subcontractor to General Electric at Commowealth Edison's Nuclear Power Plant during outage m... [More]

$1.78 MILLION FOR BRICKLAYER INJURED ON CONSTRUCTION SITE

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:40 by Admin
$1.78 Million Verdict In a case presented by attorneys James J. Morici, Jr., a Cook County jury returned a verdict for a bricklayer totaling $1.78 million for injuries sustained when a scaffold he wa... [More]

$1 MILLION VERDICT FOR AN INJURED PREGNANT MOTORIST

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:09 by Admin
Pregnant motorist recovers $982k for fractured neck in expressway rollover A Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of a Berwyn couple totaling $982,000 for injuries sustained to a seven-mon... [More]

$900,000 FOR AN INJURED JOURNEY IRONWORKER/FORMEN

Saturday, 5 December 2009 14:39 by Admin
Attorneys Charles Wallace and Mitchell Friedman obtained a favorable verdict for a Chicago Heights construction worker.  The Plaintiff suffered injuries to the left arm and elbow resulting in ten... [More]

1 killed, 4 injured including an infant in Little Village crash

Friday, 7 May 2010 09:50 by Admin
May 6, 2010 11:02 PM  A 36-year-old man is facing charges after he sped through stop signs this afternoon at a high rate of speed in the Little Village neighborhood and plowed into a ... [More]

Man dies after falling on 'L' tracks

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:11 by Admin
April 9, 2010 5:46 AM | UPDATED STORY Authorities were investigating why a man died after falling on the tracks at a West Side "L" station late Thursday. Michael Williams, 56,  was ... [More]

Wrongful death suit filed in woman's hit-run death

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 14:05 by Admin
March 29, 2010 7:02 PM The family of a South Side woman killed by a hit-and-run driver last month is suing the man charged in connection with the death. The wrongful death lawsuit filed in... [More]

Person in wheelchair falls onto CTA Subway tracks

Monday, 29 March 2010 09:38 by Admin
March 27, 2010 8:32 PM | UPDATED STORY A person in a wheelchair fell from a CTA Red Line subway platform onto train tracks at the Chicago Avenue station this afternoon. It's unclear if... [More]

Fire ravages Manhattan apartment building; 2 hurt

Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:50 by Admin
March 17, 2010 6:54 PM  | UPDATED STORY Manhattan firefighters pour water on the apartment building blaze. (Warren Skalski/For the Chicago Tribune.) A fire heavily damaged a two-story, e... [More]

$125,000 settlement for an injured journey Ironworker

Monday, 15 March 2010 15:35 by Admin
$125,000 settlement was obtained by Morici Figlioli & Associates in a construction site case. Plaintiff was walking on scaffold when he slipped grabbing hold of the cranes hook and chain. Plaintif... [More]

Woman dies after crash on North Side

Monday, 15 March 2010 15:15 by Admin
March 13, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A woman was fatally injured in a traffic crash in the West Town neighborhood on the North Side early Saturday, police said. At 12:40 a.m., police respo... [More]

SUV driver in fatal crash

Monday, 15 March 2010 14:57 by Admin
Route 59 in southwest suburban Plainfield has been reopened following a three-vehicle crash in which four people were injured Saturday night.The crash happened at Illinois Route 59 and Wedgewood Court... [More]

Two hurt in crash near Woodfield

Friday, 12 March 2010 11:46 by Admin
The minivan driver hurt in a Monday morning accident near Woodfield Shopping Center had to be cut out of the vehicle but by late afternoon was no longer thought to havelife-threatening injuries, pol... [More]

Crash survivor struggles with loss of best friend

Thursday, 11 March 2010 12:18 by Admin
March 10, 2010 10:53 PM |  The father of a 17-year-old Joliet girl who survived a fatal collision in New Lenox this week said his daughter is struggling to heal from losing her best fr... [More]

Gas leak sickens many at Hanover Central High

Friday, 5 March 2010 16:25 by Admin
47 students, teachers sent to hospitals with nose bleeds, vomiting, nausea February 27, 2010 BY JANE HUH CEDAR LAKE -- A natural gas leak that smelled like "car exhaust" sent 47 Hanover Ce... [More]

Crestwood woman killed in I-65 crash

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 14:42 by Admin
Crestwood woman was killed in I-65 crash February 24, 2010 5:46 AM | An SUV, left, was carrying two people when it collided with a semitrailer carrying chlorine containers near the Lowell... [More]

Auto crash turns happy evening into night for tears

Monday, 22 February 2010 10:10 by Admin
February 21, 2010 7:43 PM  UPDATED STORY Eva Centeno Cansino and her son, Luis Raul Valdivia, 16, display a picture of husband and father Luis Raul Valdivia-Segoviano on a computer scr... [More]

4 injured in 3-vehicle crash on Michigan Avenue

Monday, 15 February 2010 12:40 by Admin
February 14, 2010 6:48 AM | Four people were seriously injured this morning in a three-car crash on Michigan Avenue.  At about 4:30 a.m., three cars collided in the 400 block of Sout... [More]

Woman sues Target, slipped on pillow cover

Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:13 by Admin
January 28, 2010 9:38 AM A woman is suing Target, claiming she was injured at a Homewood store when she slipped on a pillow cover on an aisle floor.Alana Andrews says she was shopping at the s... [More]

Driver injured in school bus accident

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:55 by Admin
January 27, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A school bus driver was injured in an accident Wednesday morning in northwest suburban Hanover Park, according to police. At 6:45 a.m. a school bus cra... [More]

8-car crash snarls traffice in far NW suburbs

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:32 by Admin
January 26, 2010 12:26 PM  An eight-car crash shut down part of Algonquin Road in the far northwest suburbs for about 90 minutes and caused minor injuries this morning in Barrington Hil... [More]

CTA bus collides with vehicle

Tuesday, 26 January 2010 09:16 by Admin
January 22, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A CTA bus collided with a vehicle on the North Side, injuring the bus driver in the Lake View neighborhood Friday morning. At 7:22 a.m., a No. 9X Ashla... [More]

Truck strikes van carrying Chicago-area family, killing 2

Monday, 25 January 2010 10:40 by Admin
Truck strikes van carrying Chicago-area family, killing 2 January 24, 2010 10:46 PM Two people in an extended family returning to the Chicago area from a Georgia kite-flying convention died ear... [More]

Pedestrain, 85, killed by car in Albany Park

Friday, 22 January 2010 11:10 by Admin
January 22, 2010 5:35 AM An 85-year-old male pedestrian was struck and killed Thursday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side by a vehicle whose driver didn't have a license, Chi... [More]

Motorist killed by frieght train in downtown Wheaton identified

Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:34 by Admin
January 21, 2010 2:24 PM Wheaton police are investigating a fatal accident involving a 70-year-old man who drove his car around a lowered gate and was struck by a Union freight train Thursday ... [More]

4 hurt in South Side crash

Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:30 by Admin
January 21, 2010 2:36 PM Four people have been hospitalized, three in critical or serious condition, after they were involved in a crash this morning in the Prairie Shores&nb... [More]

1 killed, 1 hurt in Northwest side crash

Tuesday, 19 January 2010 12:39 by Admin
One person was killed and another injured in a traffic crash this morning in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, Chicago police said. The dead person was identified as Richard Smart,... [More]

2 hospitalized after CTA red line derailed

Monday, 18 January 2010 16:42 by Admin
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE Two men suffered minor injuries after a CTA Red Line subway train car jumped the tracks -- and went up onto the platform -- in the South Loop Thursday morning, according to t... [More]

4 Injured, 1 critically, in Dan Ryan rollover

Monday, 18 January 2010 16:32 by Admin
January 16, 2010 Caroline Kyungae Smith Staff Reporter Four people were injured -- one critically -- in a rollover accident on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side early Saturday. At 3... [More]