Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

On Saturday, November 22nd, three people were hospitalized as the result of a head on collision east of Rantoul. Champaign resident, Cara Holt, 19, side swiped a car after crossing over the center lane in her Dodge Neon. The driver of the other vehicle was a woman, 46, from Green Valley. Holt then proceeded to… Read More

On Saturday, November 22nd, three people were hospitalized as the result of a head on collision east of Rantoul. Champaign resident, Cara Holt, 19, side swiped a car after crossing over the center lane in her Dodge Neon. The driver of the other vehicle was a woman, 46, from Green Valley. Holt then proceeded to… Read More

Two individuals were injured in a Thursday evening crash on I-74 near Fithian. According to reports from state police, a 64-year-old man driving a Chevy Silverado lost control of his vehicle when he hit a patch of ice on the road. After losing control of the truck, he drove partially off the road and subsequently… Read More

The Workers’ Compensation Research Institute recently released a new study that showed the reforms made in 2011 to lessen the cost of healthcare services for injured workers in Illinois are still impacting the dwindling cost of medical care, the Insurance Journal reported on November 3. According to the report titled, “CompScope Medical Benchmarks for Illinois, 15th… Read More

A young woman was recently struck and subsequently trapped under a Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) bus, according to reports from The News-Gazette. The incident happened at the corner of Kirby Avenue and First Street around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday October 28. The University of Illinois student’s current condition is not known, but those at the… Read More

A 50-year-old man was killed earlier this week in an accident at a BRG Sports plant in Rantoul. Police were called to the plant on Wednesday around 9:30 p.m. after a man sustained a head injury when he fell from a shelving unit on which pallets were stacked. When police arrived on the scene, the man… Read More

A two-car accident that took place around 9 pm last Saturday, October 12, just north of Danville left seven people injured. According to reports from the Illinois State Police, 22-year-old Eliceo Azanon was driving his car north on Illinois Route 1 when his car swerved into oncoming traffic. A 66-year-old woman driving in the southbound lane… Read More

The Appellate Court of Illinois ruled that Walter Matuszczak, a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. night stocker who injured his neck, back, and arm after several shelves of glass cleaner fell on top of him while he was at work back in March 2010, is entitled to the remainder of his temporary total disability benefits despite… Read More

On Friday afternoon at the 800 block of Bloomington Road around 1:30 p.m. there was a three-vehicle collision in northwest Champaign involving a pickup truck and two passenger cars. A man and a woman in one of the passenger cars sustained serious injuries are were taken to Carle Hospital for treatment. Sgt. Tom Frost of… Read More

Early Wednesday morning, two vehicles collided a mile west of Prospect Avenue while traveling in the westbound lane of I-74. When 21-year-old Luis Cano-Moreno lost control of his car, he sideswiped another vehicle operated by a 24-year-old female from Indianapolis. While Cano-Moreno was released at the scene, both the 24-year-old Indianapolis woman and her 15-year-old… Read More