You can On Monday, September 30, 2013, numerous people were injured when Chicago Transit Authority (CTA and sometimes called the L by some and here the "Blue Line") commuter trains collided during rush hour at Harlem Station in Forest Park, Illinois. Train drivers and train companies owe their passengers a duty of care to avoid causing injuries to their passengers and situations can turn into severe hazards and Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Settlements and Timing of Payment-FINALLY HERE!
It's finally here -- the Governor has signed! After settling a case (some types of cases excepted below), a Plaintiff can now have some form of a "deadline" to expect payment of funds provided certain conditions are met. The new law takes effect January 1, 2014 -- just 5 months from now. Note well that this is just the "deadline" by which the defendant must pay. That is, other issues can still delay "final" fund Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Texting Even OUTSIDE a Vehicle Could Get You Sued!
In a recent decision, it was reported here that a New Jersey Appeals Court held that a person who is texting a driver could very well become a defendant in a lawsuit and be liable to someone who was injured due to such texting. Texting another driver while you are NOT driving could get you sued! Don't text and drive and don't text someone you know is driving! Just don't do it! Apparently, the Court issued a Read More
Injury Cases and Medical Bills
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] When injured due to a car accident, slip and fall, dog bite, nursing home abuse and neglect or from near any cause or issue, medical bills create significant issues from multiple respects. Some various and very "high-level" topics are as follows (and much more details and information is available upon request): Health insurance. Your health insurance may outright deny coverage for Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Patient Advocates Suffer Blow as General Assembly Shoots Down Insurance Requirement
As many of our discussions have tackled, issues of insurance are very essential to protecting the rights of injury victims, and while insurance companies seldom willingly pay all of what they should, Illinois' mandatory insurance laws at least make sure there's a system in place to make sure that injury victims have a possibility of compensation. That's why it comes as such a disheartening surprise that the Illinois Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Illinois Nursing Home Advocates Renew Demands for Medicaid Reimbursement Reform
The US Supreme Court announced its long-anticipated verdict on healthcare reform and nursing home advocates are using the spotlight as a chance to renew their demands upon Illinois lawmakers to reform the state's Medicaid reimbursement procedures. Relying heavily on statistics that suggest the state is underfunding Medicaid reimbursements by an estimated $4.7 billion, or approximately $24.34 per patient per day, Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Bedsore Case Yields $900,000 Settlement for Seattle-Area Family
A story out of Seattle details the tragic death of an 87 year-old Alzheimer's patient -- who also happened to be a retired nursing educator -- after a number of untreated pressure ulcers, some of which had "burrowed to the bone," led to her death. Much of this article focused on the reported shortcomings of a unique system that Washington state employees as a state-funded, low-cost alternative to nursing homes (this, Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — An Interesting Model for How to Report Abuse and Neglect
Many of our discussions can, understandably, have the tendency to leave many concerned with the wellbeing and safety of their loved ones in nursing homes a bit disheartened, to say the least. Even if you do notice a situation that disadvantages your loved one, what can you do about it proactively? The standard advice is that if you see something, say something, but say something to who? The same facility that caused Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: School Bus Accident in Wadsworth, Illinois – Flip Over with School Children
On Friday, April 5, 2013, a terrible school bus accident carrying numerous school children flipped over and per the latest news reports, many children were injured and perhaps one adult is dead. Apparently, school buses are not required to have seat belts and this is yet another situation where innocent children are exposed to the negligence of the drivers on the road or the very people to whom these children are Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Vote on RN Staffing Provision
As previously discussed, nursing home reform advocates are up in arms -- and rightly so -- over a proposed law that unanimously passed through the state's House of Representatives that would force already time-strapped Department of Health officials to conduct a thorough review of a nursing home facility's past reported violations before being permitted to issue them a citation in the event of a serious injury or the Read More
