Chicago "true" weather is back again and makes for very difficult driving conditions. Be careful! If someone has rear-ended you or slid into you and you believe they were not careful, contact us here immediately to assess the situation. We take calls and contact 24/7/365. And a reminder to all that not only in "good weather" is texting and reading e-mails prohibited but even more caution should be taken when roads Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Former Nursing Home Employee Files Suit for Wrongful Termination After Reporting Neglect
As if the nursing home industry needed any more negative publicity, a story recently broke regarding a former employee of an Edwardsville nursing home. While on its face, the article appears to detail a lawsuit filed by a former nursing home employee that alleges she was fired after filing a workers' compensation claim, there is also tucked away at the bottom of the article the following allegation: The suit also Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Federal Government Considering Lawsuit Against Florida Nursing Home
The headlines in newspapers and websites across the country are often filled with troubling and heartbreaking stories of what can happen when under-staffed and under-funded nursing homes let resident safety and dignity fall by the wayside. In a shutter-inducing story out of Florida, the federal government is mulling a lawsuit against a Florida nursing home where children with special needs -- even infants -- are Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — More Details Emerge on Nursing Home Legislation’s Bad Bargain
Last year, we spent some time discussing the haggling back and forth in the Illinois General Assembly about what to do about a provision in the Nursing Home Care Act that mandated increased staffing levels for skilled nursing personnel, but held off setting the threshold levels for a later date. Last spring, there was much hand-wringing from patients' rights advocates about what's generally been referred to as Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Illinois Company to Pay Portion of Settlement in New York Nursing Home Lawsuit
As recently reported, a county-run New York nursing home has agreed, along with several other companies, to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of a 90 year-old nun that died after a 200 pound dresser fell on top of her. As the article explains in detail, the nun, who was a resident in the nursing home, suffered a fractured skull after a freestanding closet came crashing down while she was allegedly reaching for Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Nursing Home Management Company Added to Governor’s Project to Control Healthcare Spending on Medicaid Recipients
Medicare and Medicaid funding (or potential lack thereof) has been one of the more prominent topics this election season on both national and local levels. In Illinois, and many other states, advocates on behalf of nursing homes and management companies have cited to dwindling Medicare and Medicaid funding as justification for their inability (or perhaps unwillingness) to meet proper staffing requirements and provide Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Liability for Owners and Operators
As the recent news stories popping up around the state have made clear, the way in which nursing homes are customarily owned and operated has become an extremely contentious topic. We've discussed the way that nursing homes often set up different legal "entities" that shuffle around ownership of the physical building, while others, for instance, own the furniture or run the staffing, but at the end of the day, actual Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Public Opinion puts Chicago Speed Camera Bill on the Ropes (and Why it Matters)
In the past we've discussed proposed auto safety measures, such as Chicago's proposed speeding camera bill, which would post cameras in designated "safety zones," track speeding cars and issue automated tickets similar to those by red light cameras. An earlier report, however, indicates that this particular proposal may wind up dying on the vine for one primary reason -- a seemingly significant lack of public Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Lawmakers Seek to Close Helmet Loophole
New traffic safety laws went into effect last year that had lawmakers turning their focus to those proposals. Many of those proposed regulations were discussed at a meeting of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, which outlined the general direction that the legislature sought to take. While we previously reported on several of these, such as the proposed ban on all handheld devices while Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — California Lawsuit Targets Nursing Home Management Structure
We've often discussed the difficulties that arise when filing suit against a nursing home stemming from the complex nature of how the "behind the scenes players" structure the corporate entities behind these facilities. As a recent article out of California suggests one recent lawsuit is looking at this issue from a different and unique vantage point. One common perception is that nursing home ownership groups set up Read More
