Recent Cases and Settlements

Our reputation was built, in part, upon the successful prosecution of some of the toughest cases on state record and published within The Verdict Report, by The Daily Law Bulletin.

Union Electrician Wins $500K Settlement After Company Doctor Proven Not Credible

In April of 2002, a union electrician suffered a career-ending injury after losing his balance while lifting a 150-pound ladder over his head.

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$1 Million Dollars Recovered for Victim of Automobile Accident

Horwitz attorneys Mike Wierzbicki and Michael Carter concluded trial May 5, 2010 resulting in a jury verdict of $1,000,064.32 for the plaintiff, an immensely greater amount than the $50,000 amount Zurich insurance company initially offered nearly 5 years after the crash, and an amount immensely greater than Zurich’s final offer of $122,000 extended while the jury deliberated.

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Horwitz Attorney Wins Supreme Court Victory for Illinois Labor

Horwitz Workers' Compensation attorney, Mark Perper, has won a big victory for Illinois labor in the Supreme Court, reinstating Temporary Total Disability (TTD) benefits for a local 174 carpenter in need of surgery whose TTD benefits were cut off after being fired.

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$725,000 settlement recovered for local 1 ironworker

$725,000 settlement recovered for local 1 ironworker after torn meniscus and elbow injury.

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$750,000 recovered by a local 174 carpenter

$750,000 recovered by a local 174 carpenter struck by a crane.

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Carousel injury at local mall

Client recovers $452,251 due to faulty construction of carousel platform

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State Ordered to Pay College Tuition & Penalties

Employed by the State of Illinois for the Illinois Dept. of Health and Human Services, our client was injured during a fire drill while providing security for prisoners at a maximum-security facility in Joliet, 2001

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Apprentice Ironworker recovers $2.3 million

Apprentice Ironworker recovers $2.3 million for serious injuries due to fall

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Laborer out of local 288 recovers $3.6 million

Laborer out of local 288 recovers $3.6 million after prefabricated wall collapses.

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Chicago Local 1 Ironworker Assigns Right to Sue Employer to Injured Employee

A local 1 ironworker recovered $2.8 Million for an injury occurring on 12/2/03 and may recover an additional $2.5 Million based on an innovative strategy employed by his attorneys at Horwitz, Horwitz and Associates, Ltd.

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Horwitz Attorney Prevails in Supreme Court Challenge

In a landmark case spanning twelve years, lead trial attorney Jay Luchsinger of Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates prevailed before the Illinois Supreme Court, securing justice for two families in in the death of their sons.

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Insurance Company Attempts to Use ‘Soldiers & Sailors Act’ to Deceive and Delay …and Loses

It’s not all that unusual; a teen borrows a parent’s full size 4X4 pick up and along with a few friends, decides to have some off-road fun in a corn field. As these stories often go, fun turns to tragedy and someone gets seriously hurt. Such was the case in Lake County, July of 2002.

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Three Times the Charm: IOE Local 150 Member Wins $500,000 WC Settlement for lower back injury.

When Workers’ Compensation benefits are denied following an on the job injury, the success or failure of the case is often determined by the quality of skilled attorneys representing the laborer and their commitment of resources to accept nothing but full justice for their clients.

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Two Local 1 Ironworkers Recover $1.8 Million

During the construction of Millenium Park in 2003, two Local 1 ironworkers were injured, resulting in a recovery of $1.8 million between the two – a compromise of highly disputed claims.

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Local 11 Roofer Recovers $2 Million

After falling through a hole in a roof causing multiple fractures to both wrists (requiring surgical placement of pins and screws), a local 11 roofer lost his career due to the restrictions caused by his injuries.

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Chicago: Local 272 Carpenter Receives $825,000 in Third Party Case

Nobody believed a Hispanic carpenter out of local 272. His workers' comp case settled, however, his Third Party case was dropped by his attorney. The carpenter ultimately came to Horwitz, Horwitz and Associates, Ltd for a second opinion and received the justice he had been due all along.

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Jury Awards Local 93 Plumber $11 Million after 30-ft Fall from Catwalk

June 7, 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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Chicago Property Owner "Hedges" Bet Against Injured Teamster from Local 179

March 23, 2007 -- 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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Worker Recovers Lost Wages and 4-Yr College Degree

January 24, 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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Jury Awards $267,500 for Auto Accident Victim

At age twenty-seven, life was full of all the promise a young newlywed woman could imagine. A short drive to the library after work in 2002, however, sent both her dreams and automobile into an uncontrollable spin when another car ran a stop sign and struck her.

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Local 150 Operator Settles Lawsuit for $5 Million

Local 150 operator recovers approximately $5 Million for injuries on the job.

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Local 916 Carpenter Recovers $2 Million

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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Construction Worker Recovers $2.1 Million

We recovered $2.1 million for a construction worker who was working inside a dump truck and was knocked out of the truck by a crane.

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Jones Act Case Results in $2.2 M Jury Verdict for a 65 Riverboat Janitor

Our trial team won a $2.2 million jury verdict for a 65 Riverboat janitor who injured his back, resulting in a two-level fusion, while lifting trash. The case was filed under the Jones Act.

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$1.6 million Settlement for Ironworker

We reached a $1.6 million settlement for an ironworker who suffered from a fracture of his wrist, resulting in a wrist fusion and an end to his career in ironwork. This case was filed under the Structural Work Act, which has since been repealed in Illinois.

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Local 272 Carpenter Recovers $1 Million Settlement after Balloon Wall Fall

On a residential jobsite in Bollingbrook, Illinois, a carpenter from Local 272 fell sixteen to eighteen feet when a crane swung a second balloon wall into the one he was positioned on during windy conditions and without warning.

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$3.8 Million for Injured Laborer

$3.8 million jury verdict for a laborer who had already been permanently disabled due to a serious back injury.

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Laborer Recovers 1.3 Million for Hip Injuries

High above the ground, a newly hired laborer struggled against icy conditions and inexperience while installing roof decking between metal beams for a new Home Depot Warehouse in nearby Montgomery, Illinois. It was the winter of 2000 and work was hard to come by, so when offered a job, 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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$16.4 Million Dollar Verdict Following Tragic Automobile Accident

Had defense attorneys and the insurance company negotiated in good faith within a reasonable time frame to arrive at a just settlement on behalf of an injured youth, they would have saved their clients millions. Instead, they gambled with the life of another.

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Construction Worker Awarded $1.8M for Injuries

Nobody believed an injured construction worker until a jury awarded him $1.8 M for Chronic Neck Pain and Post Concussion Syndrome. Two people who did believe him, however, were lawyers from Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, LTD. After a week of extensive evidence and testimony, justice prevailed.

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