Horwitz Horwitz & Associates

In a case tried by Cliff Horwitz and Jay Luchsinger, a Cook County jury has awarded $2,031,513 to a 48-year-old Teamsters 705 truck driver for a knee injury which ended his career as a trucker. Before the trial, the defendant, Albertson’s, offered the Teamster $250,000 to settle the case.

The injury occurred when a forklift operator clipped a stack of pallets, one of them striking the Teamster’s right knee. The trucker worked the rest of the...

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 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.

On his...

In September of 1998 while returning company tools to Joliet from another jobsite in the City of Naperville, an apprentice electrician was involved in an automobile accident.  His totaled car was an abrupt lesson in what can go wrong within an otherwise normal work routine, but his career-ending injuries would prove much more difficult to overcome.   

The arbitrator acknowledged the loss of earning potential had he been able to complete his requirements and obtain...

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.

They voiced...

$3.8 million jury verdict for a laborer who had already been permanently disabled due to a serious back injury. In this case, he was engaged in physical therapy on a vertical bench press when the cable on the bench press broke, causing him to move violently forward while pushing on the hand grips. He suffering injuries to both shoulders and a herniated disc in his neck. There was no lost wage, but the jury awarded...

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. The Defendant, Burnside Construction, made no settlement offer prior to trial, but agreed to the recovery amount as the trial progressed. 

“While carpenters have manually erected balloon walls in the past, these walls are becoming increasingly heavier, posing a greater risk of serious injury...

We recovered $8 million for the wrongful death of a husband killed in the Union Oil explosion.

The husband left a wife and three children. It was shown that Union Oil was negligent in causing the explosion.

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 Valerie Barich and Michael Wierzbicki, two lawyers from Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, LTD.  After a week of extensive evidence and testimony, justice prevailed.

At age fifty-three, a self-employed maintenance contractor was injured after walking into a doorway overhang that was lower than standards allowed. Afterwards, he...

Local 150 operator recovers approximately $5 Million for injuries on the job. The terms and conditions of the settlement are confidential.

Our trial team won a jury verdict for a laborer who earned $8.00 an hour when he suffered a degloving injury to the heel of his left foot. The laborer was struck by a forklift truck operated by a co-worker.

We sued the company that performed preventative maintenance on the forklift claiming that they improperly maintained the vehicle, leading to the brakes failing.

Defendant showed the jury secret surveillance video showing what appeared to be the Plaintiff...