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Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog

A legal blog that covers Illinois personal injury and accident topics including car accidents, medical malpractice, and nursing home abuse. Published by Injury Lawyers Levin & Perconti.

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Lawyer Tips: Statutes of Limitation Are Gone Before You Know It

Posted on April 25, 2008
As all lawyers and clients know, the statute of limitation is the essential window within which you must file your personal injury lawsuit to protect your rights. What many clients may not know is that municipal corporations and some government entities have shortened notice and statute of limitation periods (745 ILCS 10/1 Section 101 et seq...

Lawyer Tips: Retaining Old Files

Posted on April 24, 2008
As e-discovery and new document management techniques become more popular, some attorneys may not retain client information for as long as they should. Generally, files that involve cases with disabled persons, minors, or files containing sensitive original documents should be retained indefinitely...

Department of Transportation Statistics on Fatal Automobile Injuries

Posted on April 19, 2008
The US Department of Transportation?s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has some interesting information on fatal automobile crashes that may challenge some perceptions about driving conditions and the risk for fatal automobile accidents and fatal truck accidents...

Chicago Businessman Sued for Horseback Riding Injury at Charity Event

Posted on April 18, 2008
A woman has filed a personal injury lawsuit against local Chicago businessman Richard Duchossois for neck injuries she suffered riding horseback at a charity event. The woman claims that Mr. Duchossois and the owners of the horse were negligent in controlling the horse when it charged and struck the woman violently...

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Light Trucks Are Nearly 100 Times More Dangerous than Large Trucks

Posted on April 18, 2008
Light truck accidents, which include pickup truck accidents, SUV accidents, truck-based station wagon accidents, and utility truck accidents, occurred more than 4 million times per year recently according to the US Department of Transportation?s Bureau of Transportation Statistics...

Ford Owners Win Class Action Lawsuit for Rollover Problems

Posted on April 17, 2008
More than 800,000 owners of Ford Explorer SUVs won a products liability class action lawsuit against the manufacturer. The owners sued Ford Motors because their trucks lost valued because of the perceived risk of truck rollover accidents. Some Ford trucks rolled over during accidents or normal driving leading to serious injury, lifetime paralysis, and wrongful death...

Chicago Transit Authority Settles CTA Train Derailment Case for $1.25 Million

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) settled a personal injury lawsuit for $1.25 million. An elderly Chicago woman filed the personal injury lawsuit against the CTA because she was seriously injured in 2006 when the CTA?s Blue Line derailed by the Clark and Lake Blue Line station...

Class Action Beings for Guidant Heart Defibrillators

Posted on April 16, 2008
A Canadian court has certified a class for a class action lawsuit against Guidant for failing to warn consumers about the dangers of its popular implantable defibrillators. According to news sources, though Guidant recalled the defective heart defibrillators, some defective implantable defibrillators were still in the company?s inventory...

Illinois Employers Must Still Pay All of Medical Bills, Regardless of Write-Offs

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Illinois Appellate court announced that an Illinois employer still had to pay the remaining balance of an employee?s medical bill after the employee won a worker?s compensation lawsuit. The employee was injured on the job when the bus she drove crashed into a bridge in the Chicago suburbs...

Residents file products liability lawsuits over nutrition supplements

Posted on April 14, 2008
A products liability lawsuit was recently filed against the makers of the nutrition supplement ?Total Body.? According to the products liability complaint, an ingredient in the supplement causes symptoms such as, hair loss, severe muscle cramps, nausea, vomiting, and can even lead to Lou Gehrig?s disease...

Couple files products liability lawsuit against toy company after son ingests beads

Posted on April 13, 2008
A products liability lawsuit has been filed against Target and a toy distributor after a 1 year-old became ill after swallowing a recalled toy that produces the ?date rape? drug when ingested. A month after the recall, the 1 year-old ingested the product and required emergency treatment for vomiting and experiencing states of unconsciousness...

WR Grace & Co. reaches tentative $3B settlement in relation to asbestos claims

Posted on April 12, 2008
WR Grace & Co., Inc. has reached a proposed settlement of all current and future asbestos-related personal injury lawsuits against the company in a move the chemical company hopes will allow it to emerge from bankruptcy. For the full article.

Walmart finally drops suit against disabled worker

Posted on April 11, 2008
Following controversial exposure, Walmart dropped its effort to collect over $400,000 in health-care reimbursement for payments made to a former Wal-Mart stocker after she suffered brain damage in a car accident between her minivan and a tractor-trailer...

State Supreme Court Upholds $13.3 Million Judgment in Truck Crash Case

Posted on April 10, 2008
A state Supreme Court has upheld a $13.3 million judgment for the widower of a woman killed in a fiery truck crash. The woman was driving a Ford Motor Company Mercury Marquis when a truck slammed into the back of her car, causing the car?s towing hitch to rupture the faulty gas tank...

Chicago Office Building Fire Trial Set to Start on April 22

Posted on April 10, 2008
The tragic Cook County office building fire is set to begin in Chicago on April 22 after some delay. The office building fire resulted in the death of six people and injuries to more than two dozen others in 2003 when they were locked in a smoke-filled stairwell...

Illinois Legislature Considers the Construction Safety Act of 2008 (HB 2094)

Posted on April 10, 2008
Chicago Representative Fritchey has sponsored a bill that is now being read on the Illinois House floor that would improve protections for construction workers in Illinois. The bill is a response to the increasing dangers of working in construction that often include catastrophic injuries, disability, and worker?s compensation suits...

Fen-Phen Class Action Settlement Now Valued at $7.5 Billion

Posted on April 10, 2008
The historic Fen-Phen settlement is now valued at $7.5 billion according to the plaintiffs? attorneys managing the settlement payout. Fen-Phen was a popular diet drug and is the most notable of any prescription drug liability and injury suit. Fen-Phen is actually a combination of two drugs, fenfluramine (Pondimin) and Phentermine...

FAA failures put passengers in danger

Posted on April 09, 2008
In a products liability scare, a whistle-blower recently told Congress that a cozy relationship between Southwest Airlines officials and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) put passengers in danger of a catastrophe. One supervisor at FAA repeatedly rebuffed his reports of inspection requirement violations...

Supreme Court refuses to review case of brain damaged Wal-Mart employee forced to pay $470,000

Posted on March 25, 2008
The Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of the former Wal-Mart employee who, now brain damaged, must pay nearly half a million dollars in medical expenses to Wal-Mart. The Supreme Court?s denial allows an 8th Circuit ruling to stand that required Debbie Shank to pay nearly $470K to Wal-Mart...

Illinois Legislature Strikes Blow for Consumer for Consumer Protection

Posted on March 20, 2008
The Bowling Center Safety Act, an Illinois bill that would have insulated bowling alley owners and operators from liability, failed in committee. The bill provides that bowlers and spectators are deemed to have knowledge of the inherent risks at a bowling alley, and they therefore assume this risk, provided that the operator has not violated his duties under the Act...

$4.5 million record Illinois Jones Act Lawsuit Settlement for deckhand injured on barge

Posted on March 18, 2008
John Perconti of the Chicago Injury Law Firm Levin & Perconti and David K. Kremin of David K. Kremin & Associates (Chicago) settled a case for $4.5 million through mediation before the Honorable Donald P. O?Connell on behalf of James Talbot against Material Service Corporation (Lyons, Illinois) for their failure to provide a safe workplace...

Products liability lawsuits are often settled in silence

Posted on March 11, 2008
USA Today recently found a number of products liability lawsuits that alleged corporate malfeasance in cases of pharmacy errors at Walgreens and CVS. Many were settled out of court and nearly all of the products liability lawsuit settlements included confidentiality agreements...

$4 million wrongful death verdict to parents of child who drowned in swimming pool

Posted on February 10, 2008
In a recent wrongful death lawsuit, a jury awarded over $4 million to the family of a boy that drowned in a country club pool. The pool management company was found negligent for failing to adequately staff the pool and train lifeguards properly. The couple could appeal because their state caps wrongful death cases at $1...

FDA proposes rule holding prescription drug companies less accountable than recent federal law intended

Posted on February 09, 2008
The FDA has proposed a rule in direct contradiction to a law passed by Congress that helps hold negligent drug companies accountable for injuries to consumers caused by prescription drugs. Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) recently which holds drug companies responsible for promptly updating drug labels when they become aware of new safety information...

Family of Iraqi solder wins $5 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Kuwaiti contractor

Posted on February 08, 2008
The family of a US Soldier filed and won a wrongful death lawsuit against a Kuwait-based contractor after one of the company's vehicles collided with the soldier's Humvee in a truck accident. The soldier was killed while in Iraq and his family was awarded $5 million in the verdict...

Infant sustains facial burn injuries in surgical fire

Posted on February 07, 2008
A 12-hour-old baby recently sustained severe burn injuries to his face resulting either from the use of a defective product or medical malpractice. An oxygen hood the baby was wearing on his face caught fire and the infant is in critical condition, in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator...

$21 million verdict in wrongful death case; driver on cell phone found negligent in fatal car accident

Posted on February 06, 2008
Numerous studies have shown that talking on a cell phone while driving a motor vehicle increases the risk of automobile accidents. In a recent wrongful death lawsuit, a jury awarded $21.6 million to a man who's wife was killed in a car accident by a driver talking on her cell phone...

Company settles product liability lawsuits for $114 million total

Posted on January 30, 2008
2,682 product liability lawsuits were filed against Medtronic Inc. due to failures in their Marquis line of implanted cardiac defibrillators. The company has recently reached a $114.1 million settlement agreement in response to the legal cases.

Wrongful death lawsuit after suicide of 5th grader says school failed to prevent bullying

Posted on January 24, 2008
Wrongful death charges are being brought against a school district by the parents of a 5th grader who committed suicide after enduring bullying at the school. The lawsuit claims that the school failed in its duty to care for students when teachers and administrators did not stop the bullying...

Driver's negligence in truck accident causes death of five family members

Posted on January 23, 2008
Truck accidents are one of the most deadly and dangerous types of automobile accidents because the two motor vehicles can vary greatly in size and power. Some accidents can be caused by weather or an outside force, but too many result from the negligence of the driver...

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