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About Jay Luchsinger
Jay R. Luchsinger is a partner and trial attorney at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates with more than 35 years of practice. Before attending law school, Jay spent 15 years building skyscrapers, factories, and bridges across the Midwest as a structural ironworker and 35-year member of Ironworkers Local No. 1. He is also a U.S. Army veteran who used his GI Bill benefits to earn a master's degree in American history from the University of Wisconsin. Jay attended night school at The John Marshall Law School while working full time in construction, earning his J.D. in 1989. His firsthand experience as a tradesman gives him a distinct perspective on construction injury cases, and he has helped secure some of the largest jury verdicts in Illinois history on behalf of seriously injured workers and their families.
Proven verdicts and settlements
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.
A Cook County jury awarded $8 million to Anthony Fonte, a 61-year-old Local 1 ironworker who suffered a debilitating shoulder injury when an ARTCO barge struck his safety skiff on the Chicago River -- at the time the largest adult male shoulder-injury verdict in Illinois history.
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.
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