In our last post we discussed the role of workers’ compensation benefits in a truck accident. While atruck accident can result in a workers’ comp claim for a trucker or other commercial driver, these accidents are best avoided due to their serious nature. The Illinois Department of Transportation has conducted a study to determine when>> Read More

An Illinois man recently received a $3.1 million verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a bus company. The man’s wife was walking on Ewing Avenue in Chicago when a school bus driver ran over her and dragged her. The woman suffered catastrophic personal injuries and died later that day. The bus company originally>> Read More

Truck accidents often occur through the negligence of a third party such as the trucking company or the truck manufacturer. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides the terms under which someone involved in a truck accident can file a lawsuit against a third party. Drivers must take specific precautions to avoid collisions with trucks, but>> Read More

The New York Post is reporting another construction accident occurring at the World Trade Center site. The most recent mishap at this troubled project was a fire at near the memorial unit. The blaze ignited yesterday around 11:30 a.m. but no one was hurt. It is unclear what caused the fire or why the jobsite>> Read More

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times is one of the many reports this year to focus on “never events” – medical errors that are so negligent and reckless that they should never occur. As a cost-cutting measure, federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare announced that they would stop paying for preventable medical>> Read More

When a person is working and is injured, he or she should be covered by workers’ compensation. That coverage exists not only when a person is working in a Chicago factory or office building, but also when working out-of-state or when driving for work-related purposes Recently a Chicago truck driver was driving his semi truck>> Read More

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Honda recently announced an expansion of its recall of its FourTrax All-Terrain Vehicles. About 2,900 FourTrax ATVs were recalled in February and the new recall expands the number of recalled ATVs to 19,500. The manufacturer says that at least 10 of its consumers have complained that the front right and upper left suspension arms of>> Read More

A Chicago family is grieving after a fatal Logan Square car accident which happened on Christmas morning. Authorities say that the accident occurred around 4:45 a.m. when a wrong-way driver slammed into the passenger side of a Volkswagen Golf on North Pulaski Road. The backseat passenger in the Golf was a 67-year-old woman who was>> Read More

A medical emergency may be behind a serious CTA bus accident that happened this morning in Logan Square. The Chicago Transit Authority is attributing this bus accident to a driver who lost consciousness while operating a CTA bus near Diversey and Kedzie avenues. The CTA bus accident happened around 8:40 a.m. and the Chicago Tribune>> Read More

This year the Boston Globe ran a provocative series of investigative reports into the rampant use of antipsychotic medication in our nations nursing homes. The overuse of antipsychotics on our nations elderly nursing home residents is probably the common type of nursing home abuse in the U.S. Nursing home residents are often given these powerful>> Read More

Drugmaker Amgen Inc. is set to pay the federal government $762 million for marketing an anemia drug for off-label uses. Authorities say that the company marketed the drug Aranesp for off-label uses that the Food and Drug Administration specifically banned. Off-label marketing is a problem throughout the prescription drug industry and spawns many pharmaceutical liability cases>> Read More

Chicago aldermen recently approved a $6.25 million payment to a pedestrian who suffered a severe brain injury after a drunk city worker hit a group of people on a Gold Coast sidewalk. The Chicago Tribune reports that the case is far from being completely settled however three other pedestrians have filed lawsuits related to this>> Read More