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Last Entry: May 20, 2013 at 10:41:01

Hurley McKenna & Mertz Files Lawsuits on Behalf of Victims of Sexual Abuse in the Diocese of Joliet

Posted on May 20, 2013
Last week, Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed five lawsuits against the Diocese of Joliet for failing to protect children from predatory and pedophile priests and teaching staff within the Diocese. This abuse occurred during the 1970s and ?80s while the victims were young boys, age 8 to 16, in catechism school or in the seminary...

Hurley McKenna & Mertz Files Lawsuits on Behalf of Christian Brothers Sexual Abuse Victims

Posted on April 30, 2013
Last week, Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed lawsuits in the Circuit Court of Cook County on behalf of men who were sexually abuse as children at Brother Rice, Leo and St. Laurence high schools. Each of these high schools belonged to the Congregation of Christian Brothers...

Study: Hospitals Profit From Surgical Errors

Posted on April 18, 2013
Tort reform advocates frequently argue that lawsuits against doctors and hospitals drive up the costs of health care. Yet, according to a recent study, hospitals are actually profiting from their own mistakes because insurers pay for longer stays and extra care when preventable surgical complications occur...

Joliet Diocese Shielded Pedophile Priest Last Year

Posted on April 05, 2013
On Tuesday, Central DuPage Hospital fired a part-time chaplain after learning about allegations of ?inappropriate behavior? with a boy from years earlier. The alleged inappropriate behavior occurred while the chaplain served as a priest in the Joliet Diocese and resulted in him being declared unfit for parish ministry...

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Files Show How Joliet Diocese Shielded Pedophile Priests

Posted on March 27, 2013
After a lengthy fight to keep the files private, the Joliet Diocese recently agreed to turn over the personnel files of 16 priests with substantiated allegations of child sex abuse against them. As expected, these files show that the Joliet Diocese covered up child sex abuse by priests for decades...

$8.3 Million Verdict for Plaintiff in Defective Hip Implant Case

Posted on March 08, 2013
A Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million to a retired Montana prison guard in a verdict against Johnson & Johnson?s DePuy orthopedic unit. Like many others, this man received a defective hip implant from DePuy and needed to have the implant replaced after it was causing him significant pain...

Bartender Fired After Alerting Police to Drunk Driver

Posted on March 01, 2013
A bar recently fired an employee for calling the police after a patron left the bar extremely intoxicated and attempted to drive home. According to the employee, when she began her shift at the bar the driver was noticeably drunk and continued to drink for an extended period of time...

Hurley McKenna & Mertz Files Four Lawsuits Stemming From Abuse By Notorious Sexual Predator

Posted on February 21, 2013
Yesterday, Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed lawsuits in the Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of four men who were abused by serial pedophile, Thomas Hacker. As a Boy Scout scoutmaster, school teacher, and park district director, Thomas Hacker repeatedly abused countless young boys throughout the Midwest...

Catholic Diocese More Concerned About Unauthorized Ceremonies Than Child Sex Abuse

Posted on February 14, 2013
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles was recently forced to release approximately 12,000 pages of personnel files in connection with child sexual abuse lawsuits against it. The files demonstrate the archdiocese?s shocking disregard for the safety of children...

Records Show Catholic Officials Shielded Pedophile Priests

Posted on January 25, 2013
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that two Catholic Church officials in California covered up child sex abuse by priests until as late as 1987. This report is based on recently released internal documents from a Catholic diocese. Unsurprisingly, this particular diocese fought for years to keep these documents secret in an effort to avoid civil liability and public embarrassment...

Agency Responsible for Policing Doctors Plans to Lay Off Employees

Posted on January 15, 2013
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation recently announced that it plans to lay off most of its medical regulators. According to officials, these lay offs will reduce the department's ability to license and discipline physicians...

Former Boy Scout Executive Released from Prison After Child Porn Sentence

Posted on January 04, 2013
This week, the Boy Scouts of America?s former national director for youth protection was released from prison after serving nearly seven years on child pornography charges. In 2005, police discovered hundreds of images and videos of child pornography on the Boy Scout executive?s computer...

Boy Scouts Leader Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

Posted on December 21, 2012
Earlier this month, a Boy Scouts assistant scout master was arrested in New York and charged with possessing child pornography. According to reports, authorities found hundreds of images of pornography on his computer involving children as young as five years old...

Study Shows Prevalence of Surgical Errors

Posted on December 21, 2012
Based on a recent study, surgeons make at least 4,000 surgery errors each year in the United States. These errors, called ?never events,? include leaving foreign objects inside patients, performing the wrong procedures on patients, and operating on the wrong body sites...

Victims of Tainted Steroid Injections Continue to Struggle

Posted on December 14, 2012
Patients who contracted fungal meningitis from tainted steroid injections are continuing to struggle with complications related to the illness. For instance, a 73-year-old man spent a grueling 18 days in the hospital with fungal meningitis, only to be brought back to the hospital after his initial release for 25 days to treat a spinal abscess caused by a tainted injection...

Grapefruit Juice Mixed With Certain Medicines Can Be Deadly

Posted on November 30, 2012
Researchers have determined that consumption of grapefruit in combination with medication can cause a potentially deadly overdose. A substance in the fruit can prevent drugs from being broken down by the body, which can lead to dangerously high levels of the drug...

Toyota Recalls Prius and Corolla Models

Posted on November 16, 2012
This past week, Toyota announced two safety recalls for its popular Prius and Corolla models. Toyota explained that these recalls are necessary to correct steering shaft problems resulting from a manufacturing error and faulty electric water pumps. In the case of the water pumps, the electric motor that drives the water pump can shut off...

Facilitated Communication: Junk Science Causing Devastating Harm

Posted on November 16, 2012
A family in the United Kingdom has been torn apart by the irresponsible practice of facilitated communication. Facilitated communication is a controversial quasi-psychiatric practice in which a ?facilitator? supports the hand or arm of a disabled, nonspeaking patient, supposedly to help the patient communicate, while the patient uses a keyboard...

Chicago Man Gets His Hand Stuck in Meat Grinder

Posted on November 11, 2012
Last week, an employee of a Chicago-area supermarket got his hand caught in a meat grinder while processing meat. Firefighters were called to the supermarket and attempted to take apart the meat grinder in order to the free the man?s hand but were unsuccessful...

Chicago School Bus Driver Charged with DUI

Posted on November 11, 2012
A Chicago school bus driver was arrested for driving under the influence while taking children to school last Tuesday. The arrest occurred when a good samaritan waved down a police officer after nearly being rear-ended by the school bus multiple times...

Pharmacy Linked to Meningitis Outbreak Recalls All Drugs

Posted on November 02, 2012
Ameridose, a company with the same founders as the pharmacy responsible for the deadly meningitis outbreak across the country, announced this week that it is recalling all of its products. According to reports, federal inspectors are requiring that Ameridose improve its sterility testing...

Clergy Sex Abuse Article Published in Illinois Bar Journal

Posted on November 01, 2012
An article entitled, Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy: Statute of Limitations and Repose Challenges, written by Christopher T. Hurley and Mark R. McKenna, was recently published in the November 2012 issue of the Illinois Bar Journal. The article discusses a recent Illinois Appellate Court decision in a clergy sex abuse case and its implications for attorneys of child sex abuse victims...

Second Fatal Bicyclist Accident in Chicago

Posted on November 01, 2012
A bicyclist died yesterday after being struck by a semi truck in the Noble Square neighborhood of Chicago. The accident marks the second time this fall that a bicyclist has died after being struck by a semi truck in the City of Chicago. In early October, a bicyclist swerved to avoid an open car door and was struck and killed by a semi truck on the Near North Side...

Tragic Death Shows the Danger of ?Huffing? and Driving

Posted on October 26, 2012
Last week, a Highland Park teenager pleaded not guilty to charges of reckless homicide and aggravated DUI. According to police, the teen was inhaling fumes from a computer cleaning product while driving when she careened onto the sidewalk and struck and killed a five year old girl...

Missouri Woman Successfully Challenges Unfair Tort Reform Law

Posted on October 26, 2012
A Missouri woman sued a hospital and her doctors after her son was born in 2006 with catastrophic brain injuries. She argued that her son?s injuries were the result of medical negligence on the part of the hospital and her doctors. A jury found that the defendants were negligence and awarded $1...

Boy Scouts Release ?Perversion Files?

Posted on October 23, 2012
Last week, Boy Scouts of America released a portion of what are known as the ?perversion files? by order of an Oregon court. The perversion files were created for adult volunteers accused of sexually abusing minors in Boy Scouts. These files clearly show that Boy Scouts of America has been covering up child sex abuse and shielding pedophiles from criminal prosecution for decades...

High School Students Hospitalized from Food Contaminated by Mouse Droppings

Posted on October 12, 2012
This past week, two students at Hirsch Metropolitan High School on the South Side of Chicago were hospitalized after eating nachos in school lunches that had been contaminated by mouse droppings. According to the school district, the students had eaten most of the nachos before discovering the droppings in the bags...

Hurley McKenna & Mertz wins $14 million verdict for boy who suffered a brain injury at birth

Posted on September 27, 2012
On Monday, the law firm of Hurley McKenna & Mertz won a $14 million jury verdict against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Dr. Elias Sabbagha for the family of a boy who suffered a brain injury at birth. Over the course of a 3 � week trial, Christopher T...

Can Genetically Modified Foods Cause Health Problems?

Posted on September 20, 2012
Scientists in France recently published a controversial study that raises concerns about the safety of foods with genetically modified ingredients. In the study, rats were fed corn that was genetically engineered to withstand spraying with the herbicide Roundup...

Is the FDA Approving New Drugs Too Quickly?

Posted on September 07, 2012
Two drug-safety experts recently criticized the FDA?s speedy approval of new medicines. The criticism centered around the approval of three drugs: cancer drug Caprelsa, multiple sclerois drug Gilenya, and stroke prevention drug Pradaxa. The experts argued that the FDA allowed these drugs onto the market without proper safety analysis...

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