A Chicago man was critically injured and another chicago man was killed when they were sucked under a Metra Train on Chicago’s Southside yesterday. The accident occured yesterday in an area between the Metra tracks near the 7500 block of south exchange avenue in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. The…
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Juan Johnson, a Chicago resident, was awarded $21 million dollars by a jury in a wrongful conviction lawsuit. Johnson was framed for a 1989 murder and spent eleven and a half years in prison before he was finally cleared of the crime in 2004.…
How do we cap medical malpractice without capping medical malpractice awards for those patients who are injured by the negligence of doctors. Everyone agrees that the health care system in the United States is in need of a drastic overhaul. The key is accomplishing an overhaul without further abridging the…
Trying lawsuits in Chicago at the Cook County Courthouse located at The Richard J. Daley Center is a risky proposition. Even though anti-consumer groups like the Chamber of Commerce and other insurance company proxies have identified Illinois as a judicial “hellhole” the fact of the matter is that injured people…
The Chicago Transit Authority’s Blue Line was disrupted early Thursday morning when a car travelling on the Eisenhower Expressway jumped the retaining wall and landed on the railroad tracks, where it was struck by an oncoming train. The driver of the car was able to exit the vehicle before it…
On June 5, 2009, the First District Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Chicago affirming a trial court ruling by Judge Daniel M. Locallo clarifying certain issues related to the Illinois Supreme Court’s 1993 ruling in Gilbert v. Sycamore Memorial Hospital,156 Ill.2d 511, 622 N.E.2d 788 (1993). The opinion is…
On March 26, 2009 we reported on the efforts of one family to have the Feres doctrine legislatively overturned. If you recall the Feres doctrine prohibits an active member of the United States military from suing the an Army hospital for medical malpractice. This prohibition on medical malpractice suits brought by members…
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that a 14 year old suburban Chicago girl is in critical condition after the atv she was operating collided with another driven by her eleven year old brother. While the children were wearing helmets, the girl was injured when the two vehicles collided in suburban…
The number of swine flu cases reported in Illinois has risen to 41 as of Thursday, April 30, 2009 according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 11 of those cases are being reported in the Chicago Area. 109 cases of swine flu have been confirmed nationwide. Chicago area schools are closing in…
A Tennessee jury awarded a 33 year old woman $12 million dollars yesterday in what is being reported as one of the states largest ever jury awards. The jury returned the verdict against a local gastroenterologist who left the girl brain damaged after a procedure that was meant to diagnose…