About Daniel DeBias

Daniel DeBias is a partner at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates who joined the firm in 2007 and worked his way from staff to attorney while attending The John Marshall Law School at night. He earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2006) and his J.D. from The John Marshall Law School (2017), where he was published in the John Marshall Law Review for a comment about protecting injured workers in Illinois. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in May 2018. During his first decade at the firm, Dan learned trial preparation and workers' compensation practice under partners Mitchell Horwitz and Wayne Newman. He now devotes his entire practice to representing injured workers.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates

These results are credited to Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Cook County jury awarded $64 million to Ronald Bayer, a union ironworker paralyzed from the neck down after falling 15 feet at a Panduit Corp. warehouse construction site in DeKalb, Illinois, at the time the largest verdict ever returned for a quadriplegic in Illinois.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2012Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$32 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $32 million to truck driver Stephanie Johnson, who developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after slipping on oil at an ExxonMobil facility, in what the Jury Verdict Reporter recorded as the largest CRPS verdict in Illinois history.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2025Slip & FallRead the full story →
$10 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $10 million to a dentist who developed bilateral Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after a delivery worker's overloaded hand truck struck her leg at a Lincolnwood Walgreens in 2012, setting what the Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter confirmed as the largest CRPS injury verdict in state history at the time.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$9.99 millionVerdict

Electrician Frank Russo was injured in July 2013 when a crane at Corey Steel's plant struck the man-lift he was working in, leaving him with hip, shoulder, back, elbow and finger injuries. Corey Steel admitted liability, and a Cook County jury awarded $9,987,000 in damages in 2017. A successor judge ordered a new trial over a future hip surgery opinion, and the Illinois Appellate Court reversed that order in December 2018, so the verdict stood.

Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (No. 17 L 03425) · 2017Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$5.75 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $5,745,600 to Local 10 journeyman carpenter Gary Markovich after a superintendent's drill bit wrapped his ulnar nerve during work at Northwestern Prentice Women's Hospital, producing stage III CRPS that ended his career, at the time the largest non-amputation hand-injury verdict in Illinois history.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2014Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

The John Marshall Law School
J.D., 2017
University of Illinois at Chicago
Undergraduate, 2006

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois, admitted 2018

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