There are now at least 31 known vaping illness deaths in the United States, with the most recent deaths being confirmed in Minnesota. Minnesota Reports Three Total Deaths Minnesota health officials announced the two latest vaping illness deaths on October 16, 2019. They represent the second and third vaping deaths in the state. The first>> Read More

A dump truck struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk in the Hermosa neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Dump Truck Reportedly Disregarded Stop Sign On October 14, 2019, at about 12:30 p.m., an unidentified 32-year-old male pedestrian was walking on Dickens Avenue, proceeding through its intersection with Pulaski Road from within a crosswalk. At>> Read More

GWC’s Louis Anthony Cairo recently obtained a $1,250,000.00 settlement for three clients who were injured in a multi-vehicle accident in Wayne, IL. Multi-Vehicle Accident with Serious Injuries In May 2017, a twenty-year-old college student was driving northbound on Dunham Road, approaching its intersection with Surrey Road in Wayne, IL, with his two minor brothers as>> Read More

Pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is recalling the popular heartburn drug Zantac in all markets as a “precaution,” just days after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found “unacceptable” levels of a probable cancer-causing impurity known as N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). Zantac May Contain High Levels of NDMA On October 8, 2019, GSK said it was recalling four>> Read More

New legislation will be introduced in Congress that would cap the amount of nicotine in e-cigarettes to combat their use among young people. Concentrations to Be Capped at 20 Milligrams Per Milliliter On October 7, 2019, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi announced the introduction of the END ENDS Act. The proposed legislation would cap e-cigarette nicotine concentrations>> Read More

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling for new limo seatbelt requirements in the wake of a deadly limo crash in upstate New York. Agency Proposes Tighter Safety Regulations The NTSB’s safety recommendations were released on October 2, 2019, nearly a year after a notorious limo crash that left twenty people dead. On October>> Read More

At least five people have been injured in a multi-vehicle accident in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side. Three Vehicles Involved in the Crash Authorities responded to a crash involving three vehicles at about 8:47 p.m. on September 28, 2019. The multi-vehicle accident took place on the 8700 block of South Halsted Street,>> Read More

On September 30, 2019, Sterigenics abruptly announced that they were abandoning their attempt to reopen the Willowbrook facility that was shut down after state officials found elevated levels of toxic ethylene oxide being released into residential neighborhoods. The shutdown of the Willowbrook Sterigenics facility came after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cited the elevated cancer>> Read More

The Chief Executive Officer of Juul Labs, the leading vaping company in the United States, has stepped down amidst a wave of vaping-related illnesses and deaths. The company has also said that it would halt its advertising and not fight a proposed ban on flavored vaping products. Ads Pulled as Flavored Vaping Ban Proposed On>> Read More

A man has been charged in the hit-and-run bicycle death of Vere Joel Day in north suburban Waukegan, IL. SUV Driver Kills Bicycle Rider, Flees Scene On September 19, 2019, at approximately 10:45 p.m., 60-year-old Vere Joel Day was riding a bicycle near Jackson Street and 8th Street in Waukegan when he was struck by a 2006>> Read More

The CTA’s Brown and Purple Line services were halted in the early morning after two CTA trains collided on Chicago’s North Side. Fourteen Taken to Hospital After CTA Trains Collide On Sept. 24, 2019, at approximately 9:15 a.m., a southbound Brown Line train collided with a southbound Purple Line train north of the Sedgwick station>> Read More

The health risks associated with vaping are in the news lately, with as many as seven e-cigarette users dying from lung conditions in recent weeks. But another vaping danger comes from the propensity of the devices’ batteries to catch fire and injure their users, as was the case with a GWC client for whom attorneys Louis>> Read More