Illinois workers’ compensation attorneys at Abels & Annes have agreed to represent a Chicago woman who was injured while working for American Airlines. The accident happened on August 29, 2010 when our client was working as a ramp agent in terminal four at O’Hare Airport. The claimant was positioned outside…
An Illinois workers’ compensation attorney at Abels & Annes has reached a $130,000 settlement on behalf of a South Side resident that was injured on the job. The accident occurred on May 9, 2006 in the City of Chicago. Our client was on the job Chicago Transit Authority. He was…
A 24-year-old Chicago woman was seriously injured in a work accident while employed as an extra on the movie “Transformers 3” The Sun-Times reports the Little Village resident suffered a serious head injury in a stunt involving several cars during filming Wednesday night in Hammond, Indiana. The Indiana State Police…
A Chicago personal injury and wrongful death law firm has been retained by the husband of the SeaWorld trainer who was killed by a whale in February, according to NBC2 in Orlando. Dawn Brancheau was pulled into a pool and drown by a whale named Tilikum. Some media reports indicated…
Two employees were injured in a Chicago construction accident when their scaffold collapsed on Saturday, WGNTV reported. The accident happened around 10 a.m. Saturday at 62nd and Sangamon Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood, where the men were working on a building that was converted to a woman’s shelter. They were…
Chicago workers’ compensation lawyers at Abels & Annes have recently settled several claims for our clients. One client, an employee at Adventist LaGrange Memorial Hospital in LaGrange, Illinois required arthroscopic surgery on her left shoulder after she slipped and fell in a bathroom while at work. The employer made no…
National Work Zone Awareness Week is April 6 to 10 and will include multiple public awareness efforts by Illinois Work Zone Safety Partners and the Illinois Department of Transportation. In 2008, fatal Illinois road construction accidents claimed 31 lives and injured 1,985 people. A total of 7,813 traffic accidents were…
A taxi driver was seriously injured Sunday morning in a Chicago car accident near O’Hare International Airport, the Chicago Breaking News Center reported. The driver stepped out of his passenger van and was struck by a vehicle on Interstate 90 near the airport. It was the third time in recent…
A worker was killed last week and another injured in a Chicago construction accident that occurred in the Loop, ABC 7 reported. The victims are employees of People’s Energy and were conducting an underground test at Jackson and Wacker Drive when the Chicago work accident occurred shortly before 2 a.m.…
An Illinois State Police trooper was nearly struck by a speeding car during a traffic stop on the Eisenhower Expressway last weekend, according to the Chicago Breaking News Center. The Chicago car accident attorneys and the Illinois work injury lawyers at Abels & Annes urge everyone to obey the law…