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About Mitchell Horwitz
Mitchell W. Horwitz is a managing partner and head of the workers' compensation practice at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, where he has practiced since 1979. A third-generation member of the firm following grandfather Jacob W. Horwitz and father Andrew J. Horwitz, Mitch was born in Chicago and graduated from New Trier High School. He has dedicated his career to representing Illinois employees injured on the job, recovering millions in settlements and verdicts.
He was appointed by the Governor of Illinois to the Workers' Compensation Advisory Board to represent employee interests, and was named one of the Top 10 Workers' Compensation Lawyers in Illinois by Leading Lawyers magazine. He is admitted to both the Illinois Bar and the Florida Bar. He holds a B.A. in Accounting from Northern Illinois University (1976) and a J.D. with honors from The John Marshall Law School (1979).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates
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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 $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.
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.
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.
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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