Chicago Legal Blog

In the moment you’re in an accident, your mind is racing. After all, it’s an incredibly traumatic event and thinking rationally isn’t something that comes natural. However, knowing what questions to ask – and get answered – when you’re injured in an accident can be absolutely vital to your potential case. Timing is everything. Don’t […]

Practically every professional athlete is likely to suffer some cumulative wear and tear to their bodies over the course of a playing career. However, some disability insurance policies may use that cumulative trauma as a basis to deny disability benefits when a serious injury ends a player’s career. Gordon Gordon & Centracchio recently litigated a […]

If you are injured in some way, there’s a good chance that it’s going to be due to a car accident. As personal injury attorneys, we’ve seen enough statistics on that to know. Not only are you likely to be in a car accident, but you’ll probably be in an accident at least once in […]

When a pregnant woman is in an accident, there may be emotional and physical trauma to the mother and her baby. However, the stress may not end there. Some insurance companies seek to lower their liability by questioning the extent of injuries to the mother and her baby. Frankly, no pregnant mother should ever have […]

According to research published in the journal PLOS One, scientists are making new headway in being able to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) while patients are still alive. CTE is a neurological disorder that commonly affects professional football and hockey players, with symptoms ranging from memory loss and confusion to increased aggression and rage. Some […]

As reported in the Cook County Record last month, Richard Gordon and Robert Albrecht of Gordon Gordon & Centracchio recently filed a complaint against Island Party Boat LLC and Pontoon Management LLC. The complaint was filed in Cook County Circuit Court and alleges that the defendants did not take sufficient measures to ensure their boat […]

Richard visited The Around the Water Cooler podcast this week to discuss workers’ compensation, the Chicago Bears, workplace nitwits and more with Kristen Prinz of The Prinz Law Firm, P.C. Listen to the full episode here.

Gordon Gordon & Centracchio is moving forward in representing plaintiffs in a federal class action complaint against Precor, Inc., a maker of treadmills and other exercise equipment. On June 16th in Chicago, Judge Harry D. Leinenweber denied a motion filed by Precor asking him to reconsider the complaint, writing that Precor had not supplied enough […]

Richard Gordon recently spoke to the Chicago Sun-Times regarding proposed changes to Illinois’ workers’ compensation laws for injured athletes. The five biggest sports teams in Chicago—the Bears, Blackhaws, Cubs, Bulls, and Sox—are asking for changes in the age limit for “wage-differential payments,” hoping to stop these payments at age 35 instead of age 67. To […]

Gordon Gordon & Centracchio is happy to announce our sponsorship of the 2017 Mokena Blaze traveling baseball teams. The Mokena Blaze is the official boys’ travel division of the Mokena Baseball and Softball Association, which provides annual baseball activities for over 1,500 players in the Mokena and Lincoln-Way area. “At GLO, one of our specialties […]