Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

A Valentine’s Day snowstorm was responsible for a number of car accidents on I-74 in what turned out to be the fifth-highest snowfall ever recorded on February 14 in the county. According to Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel, the Champaign area got around 2 inches of snow. The Valentine’s Day record, set in 2007, was… Read More

In Continental Tire of the Americas, LLC v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Fifth Appellate Court ruled that the Commission is not required to make a judgment of a claimant’s supposition of an incident of workplace injury if the only evidence he has at hand is an AMA impairment rating report. The appellate court noted… Read More

Central Management Services director Thomas Tyrell filed a lawsuit on Friday, November 13 in Sangamon County Circuit Court in Illinois against Attorney General Lisa Murray Madigan, claiming that “millions” of dollars have been wrongfully awarded by an Illinois state agency that should pay workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers, but instead has been paying “hundreds”… Read More

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, November 4 in the case of Folta v. Ferro Engineering, which sought to find out whether an employee can bring legal action against an employer outside of the Workers’ Compensation Act and the Occupational Diseases Act when onset of the employee’s injury or disease occurs after the expiration… Read More

On Friday, October 30, attorneys James Spiros and Miranda Soucie of , met with representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Justice regarding medical malpractice mediation.  Some of the topics discussed at this meeting included “How lawyers work with insurance companies,” “Common medical malpractice disputes,” and “Enforcing the outcome of mediated disputes.”

Ten lawmakers on key Senate and House of Representatives committees and members of the Democratic Party, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, have asked the United States Department of Labor to address a “pattern of detrimental changes in state workers’ compensation laws” that have increasingly limited protections and benefits for injured workers over the past ten… Read More

Ten lawmakers on key Senate and House of Representatives committees and members of the Democratic Party, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, have asked the United States Department of Labor to address a “pattern of detrimental changes in state workers’ compensation laws” that have increasingly limited protections and benefits for injured workers over the past ten… Read More

An accident occurred around 7:21 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28 in which the driver of a van lost control of the vehicle on Interstate 57. The van flipped several times before eventually coming to rest on its roof in a pond just east of the highway. According to police reports, there were nine occupants in… Read More

None of the people involved in a three-vehicle accident on Friday sustained injuries that are life-threatening, as reported by The News-Gazette.com. There were two people in each of the vehicles and everyone was wearing their seat belt at the time of the crash. Four people were taken to the hospital by ambulance for non-life-threatening injuries,… Read More

A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle at approximately 10:17 Friday night in front of the Farm and Fleet store on North Cunningham Avenue in Urbana and later died of his injuries after being taken to Carle Foundation Hospital. The vehicle operator, 64-year-old Sumie Metz, was driving south when she suddenly struck 43-year-old Tyrone Eugene… Read More