As we've discussed several times recently, the problem with training nursing home caregivers and keeping up with proper staffing requirements has been one of the most prominent topics in the ongoing debate about the care and services your loved ones receive in nursing homes. These topics come to mind when reading a recentpress release from a company that focuses on background screening of home healthcare Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Personal Injury and Trucking Accident Law — New Study Attempts to Link Obesity With Trucking Accidents
As a recent article in Science Now details a new study that is almost certain to stoke a good deal of controversy has put forth a new factor that researchers believe contributes to an increased likelihood of trucking accidents -- obesity. The study followed 744 newly-licensed truck drivers and categorized them by height and weight. The results suggested that those with a body mass index of 35 or greater (fitting the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Commercial Litigation Issues — Fraud and Heightened Pleading Requirements
As we've previously discussed, fraud is one of the most contentious causes of action that arises in business litigation. What many aggrieved parties don't understand when they first seek out an attorney is that it is so difficult to even plead a proper complaint for fraud that a good deal of cases never even make it off the ground and get past the initial pleadings stage. As a matter of background, filing a complaint Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Are Red Light Cameras Becoming a Thing of the Past?
With the rash of new laws and procedures that took place this year intended to improve safety for drivers on the road, it is interesting to keep in mind -- and take some perspective on -- some of the passing trends in automobile safety. Interestingly, the city of Naperville voted to let contracts expire on their existing red light cameras. While there are certainly a number of reasons that this, and other, Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — New Laws in Effect Require All Passengers to Wear Seatbelts
This year has brought into effect a flurry of new laws passed the previous year, many of which are intended to affect the safety of drivers on the road. One such candidate is the requirement that all occupants of cars, trucks, and vans must wear seatbelts. While it may come as a surprise to many that this is a "new" development, prior to January 1st of this year, passengers in the back seats of cars were not required Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Commercial Litigation and Business Disputes — The First Step in a Breach of Contract Claim
In addition to fraud claims that we have previously discussed, perhaps the most common type of commercial dispute that leads to litigation fall under the vast heading of breach of contract. As you can probably imagine, the areas covered under this area of the law are as vast and expansive as the subject matter that people contract for to begin with. And, as you can also probably imagine, most breach of contract Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Study Shows Interesting Data on Repeat Drunk Driving
This year has brought many interesting developments in technology easing its way into lawmakers' attempts to increase safety on the roads -- and the news, unfortunately, forcing their hand. With the rash of prominent stories regarding drunk driving accidents, wrong way driving accidents, and the like, no matter how much lawmakers try to curb the problem, it never seems to be enough. That's why an article in the Read More
As various local news outlets have reported, an off-duty Chicago Police Officer was recently charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries and disorderly conduct for filing a false police report after a rather interesting turn of events stemming from allegations that the officer ran into a pedestrian on a bicycle and is alleged to have later filed a report claiming the accident was the pedestrian's Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident and Personal Injury Law — A Brief Introduction to the Intersection between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy
One of the most discouraging things to encounter in personal injury law is where you endure a lengthy litigation process and even obtain a successful verdict at trial, only for the defendant to turn around and declare bankruptcy in an attempt to discharge your judgment and force you to walk away with nothing. In situations where the defendant you have filed suit against has no insurance money backing them up, this is Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Arbitration in Ulcer Case Ends in $4.5 Million Award
A lawsuit filed in Nevada seeks to affirm an arbitration award of $4.5 million to the family of a woman that died in a Las Vegas nursing home of complications from bed sores, skin breakdown, and dehydration. As the article explained, the deceased resided in the nursing home for less than three weeks while recovering from a stroke. An award that high is sure to draw much ire from nursing home supporters, but in cases Read More
