James Miglore, age 58, was an electrician working at the construction site of a new Hoffman Estates park district ice arena. The construction area was located at 1685 W. Higgins Road in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The defendant, Harbour Contractors, was the construction manager for the project. Midwest Masonry was the masonry…
Atlantic Casualty Insurance Co. insured Paszko Masonry as it worked on the construction of an apartment building in Downers Grove, Ill., along with three other companies, Prince Contractors Inc., Chicago Masonry Construction and 4929 Forest LLC.. Robert Rybaltowski was an employee of the waterproofing company, Raincoat Solutions, which had submitted…
Deirdre Hastings was an ironworker employed by Area Erectors Inc.On March 5, 2007, Hastings was unloading steel beams from the bed of a flatbed truck. The steel beams were hooked to a 90-ton hydraulic crane, which would move the steel onto the building that was being constructed. The crane was rented…
Humberto Menendez was working for Steine Cold Storage, Inc., which was a subcontractor for the installation of thermo units at a Wal-Mart store under construction in Indiana. Steine rented a boom lift from NES Rentals. NES Rentals delivered the lift to the construction site on Aug. 23, 2006. The Steine foreman on…
Thomas Miles, age 54, commuted to work regularly by bicycle. He was riding his bike northbound on California Avenue in Chicago on July 14, 2008 in the marked bike lane when he came upon a patch of wet cement in the street. The defendant Tai Plumbing had dug a 3-foot-wide trench across…
A $2.24 million verdict was entered in favor of a 36-year-old electrician working as a groundman for an aerial lift truck at a booth at…
In September 2002, John Defries, an ironworker, was employed by II in One Contractors, Inc. and was working at its Wacker Drive reconstruction project in Chicago. Walsh Construction was the general contractor for the project and was named the defendant in this case. Defries alleged that he slipped and fell…
Christopher Sojka was working as a carpenter on Chicago’s Trump Tower as it was under construction in 2008. While standing on the upper floors of the construction project, Sojka attempted to fix a steel cable when the wind knocked him back and a piece of metal struck him in the…