Illinois Personal Injury Updates

Promoting workplace safety is as non-controversial as promoting firearm safety, safe-driving, and energy efficiency. However, when the advancement of workplace safety pits worker against...

Lifetime Brands, Inc., in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling some of its dinnerware because some of the products may have exceeded the FDA's guidance levels for lead and/or Cadmium. The...

Friday evening a truck drove into the CTA red line stop at Cermak-Chinatown. Two women, Elosia Guerrero 47 and Delisia Brown, 18 were killed at the scene of the collision. Another 21 people,...

A truck speeding down the Cermak exit to the Dan Ryan expressway left the roadway and crashed into a CTA bus stop and el station at rush hour today. Commuters waiting for the bus and leaving the...

Heparin, a blood thinner, may be linked to the deaths of at least a dozen people. The FDA recently reported a contaminant in the Heparin could be causing serious side effects, including death. It is...

What Do Illinois Workers’ Compensation Hearings And Social Security Hearings have in Common? During my three years of law school one of the many rules repeated over and over was, never ask a...

One would assume that safe work practices on construction sites would be the top priority of everyone involved in the industry Few occupations pose the risks and hazards of those encountered by...

In a decision that is good news for governmental employees, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that local governments are not immune from lawsuits from employees claiming retaliatory discharge for...

Today Chicago area citizens have to be asking themselves, “Is our drinking water safe?” In today's Chicago Tribune it was reported that "Chicago officials have never tested the city and suburban...

When the unimaginable occurs and a family member suffers a work-related fatality, the survivors are forced to consider how the family will support itself and make ends meet. While no amount of money...