Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

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

Worker advocates in Illinois have expressed their fears regarding gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner, a millionaire venture capitalist from Winnetka, claiming that the GOP candidate is bad for Illinois workers, Progress Illinois reported on September 22. Northern Illinois Jobs with Justice member Mary Shesgreen said Rauner’s views would be detrimental to the labor sector in the state, as… Read More

The non-profit National Safety Council, which is chartered by Congress, and BRONZ, a company that assesses workplace safety, will work hand in hand to make workplaces across the country safer by crafting initiatives based on the Journey to Safety Excellence principles. According to national records, 5 million people are injured at work each year, while… Read More

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General for the state of Illinois, has proposed a new law that would allow families to install video cameras and audio recording devices in the rooms of relatives who live in nursing homes and similar assisted living facilities. Madigan stated that she felt compelled to take action after hearing  complaints of abuse in… Read More

Illinois-based Champion Roofing Inc. has been cited by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for forcing workers to work on a low-sloped roof, 13 feet above the ground, without the necessary means to protect them from falling. This comes after repeated violations in the past five years for the same problem. OSHA… Read More