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About GWC Injury Lawyers
GWC Injury Lawyers is one of Illinois' largest personal injury and workers' compensation law firms, founded in 1978 and headquartered in Chicago. Over more than four decades the firm has recovered in excess of $2.5 billion in verdicts and settlements for clients injured in construction accidents, trucking crashes, workplace incidents, medical malpractice cases, and other serious injury matters.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by GWC Injury Lawyers
James Daniels, a Local 1 ironworker, fell about 23 feet from a form wall on the $978 million Fermilab PIP-II particle accelerator project in May 2023, suffering catastrophic injuries including a traumatic brain injury, rib fractures, and nerve damage; GWC Injury Lawyers recovered a $40 million settlement in 2026.
David O'Donnell, 27, died after an improperly anchored scaffold at the University of Chicago Cancer Pavilion construction site swung away from the building during a 44 mph wind gust and dropped him 140 feet; GWC attorney Louis Cairo secured a $23.5 million settlement for his family in June 2025.
GWC Injury Lawyers secured a $13.424 million settlement for the families of two people killed and dozens injured when an improperly anchored 'Mega Tent' collapsed at Wood Dale's Prairie Fest on August 2, 2015.
A Cook County jury awarded $6,729,225.55 to a 55-year-old Local 134 journeyman electrician who suffered second- and third-degree burns in a flash fire inside a fuel pump pit at a Chicago Circle K station in 2019; the net recovery after a 45-percent comparative fault reduction was $3,701,074.05.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
Proven verdicts and settlements from other Chicago firms
Attorneys at GWC Injury Lawyers
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