It's certainly no secret that nursing home overcrowding and understaffing has contributed a great deal to the alarming rate of serious injuries and avoidable deaths suffered in nursing homes each year. That's why this report from the Chicago Tribune is rather troubling, as it suggests that the state isn't living up to its end of the bargain in one of the components of the reform that culminated in the state's Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Wrongful Death Case Against Chicago Nursing Home Settles After 2010 Drowning
The Chicago Tribune reported a lawsuit against a Rogers Park nursing home that settled for $100,000 after a woman drowned herself in a tub after previously expressing suicidal ideation to staff. The suit alleged that the facility failed to properly monitor the resident after she had put them on notice of her suicidal ideations. This is a tragic situation where there are certainly no real winners, but there is an Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — More Efforts to Improve Transportation Safety
The State's trend towards making a concerted effort to improve transportation safety continued with a move by Governor Quinn that went largely under the radar. The announced $21 million grant has the outward goals of trying to improve pedestrian safety in school zones, but it looks as though some of the proposed uses may have positive residual effects as well. As we've discussed many times, two of the more common Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Pennsylvania Case Finds Interesting Intersection Between Nursing Home Litigation and Arbitration
An interesting story out of Pennsylvania speaks to the tension that many attorneys face between the litigation process that leads a case towards a trial by jury and the emerging trend towards resolving disputes in informal settings outside a court. The case contains a great deal of complex procedural maneuverings that may not make a whole lot of sense to those unfamiliar with the process, but, in a nutshell, while an Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Suburban Chicago Nursing Home Announces Renovation Plans
As previously reported in Crain's Chicago Healthcare Daily, the Illinois Finance Authority approved a Lutheran Home for the Aged facility in suburban Arlington Heights' $120 million plan to gut and renovate a facility to include private bathrooms in each resident's room as part of an overall plan to "gut and renovate" its main facility. As the article suggested, this renovation project, which will decrease the number Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Surprise Inspections of California Nursing Homes Leads to Heated Exchange
It's no secret by now that the shoddy conditions and lack of resources in nursing homes across the country has activists on both sides of the divide up in arms. One particularly interesting debate raging in California showcases how frustrations between the two sides may be starting to boil over. As an article detailed, a "surprise inspection" of a California facility by the state department of justice yielded some Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Lessons to be Learned from California Attorney General’s Proactive Approach
The Los Angeles Times previously reported an article from the studies of a 2+ year investigation into Southern California nursing homes ordered by the California Attorney General. Unfortunately, the study found, amongst other things that: "Inspectors discovered cases of bed sores not being treated properly, patients being given the wrong medication or being over-medicated with psychotropic drugs and residents left in Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Tennessee’s Largest Nursing Home Operators Agreed to a $9 Million Settlement
As those who follow nursing home-related disputes in the news can attest, the most common excuse you're likely to hear when an accident occurs is, bottom line, a complaint about money. When a resident is injured in a fall and lays unattended to for a long period of time, the likely excuse is that the facility lacked the money to hire enough workers -- same for residents suffering horrific injuries from bedsores. When Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Carnival Cruise Lines Ship Breakdown
As most are aware, Carnival Cruise ship the Triumph recently endured an incident at sea. Passengers allegedly endured horrendous and deplorable conditions on what was allegedly to be a vacation of a lifetime for some. When purchasing an automobile, purchasers routinely check out the safety features to make a decision before purchasing. How many people actually check the safety records of a cruise ship? Not many! Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Is a Side Impact Airbag Recall on the Horizon?
As an article from the Chicago Tribune illustrated, many prominent auto makers have been in the process of issuing safety recalls in regards to side airbag components that don't deploy as they should following a crash. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into the matter even further, after asking component maker Autoliv Inc. to provide a list of auto manufacturers that it sold Read More
