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Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog

A legal blog that covers Illinois personal injury and accident topics including car accidents, medical malpractice, and nursing home abuse. Published by Injury Lawyers Levin & Perconti.

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7 People Including Four Children Personally Injured In Apartment Fire

Posted on November 08, 2008
Firefighters rescued a child hanging from his mother?s arms out of a third floor window after a ?suspicious? fire started on the Chicago?s northwest side. The fire started in an apartment people and seven people, including four children and a police officer were hospitalized with a variety of personal injuries...

Court to decide whether smokers must find safer cigarette for damages

Posted on November 07, 2008
The burden of proof for products liability lawsuit plaintiffs may increase in Florida based upon a decision facing the Florida Supreme Court. Justices were asked whether plaintiffs who sue companies in personal injury lawsuits over design defects in inherently dangerous products such as cigarettes have a duty to find a safer design option to prove liability...

FDA Faulted for Stance on Chemical in Plastics

Posted on November 06, 2008
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel agreed that the agency had erred when it said the chemical widely used in baby bottles and other plastic packaging for foods and beverages posed no health risks. A panel of toxicology expects said the FDA hadn?t properly assessed the potential health risks posed by the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which some studies have linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease and the development delays in children...

What do you do if you suffer a serious burn injury?

Posted on November 05, 2008
A great article was recently published addressing how to respond to serious burn injuries. On an annual basis, there are about 3,700 deaths and 19,400 fire-related personal injuries annually. Many burn accidents are preventable. Often, fires are caused by human error or negligence, defectively designed or manufactured products, or improper installation/maintenance of electrical or mechanical devices...

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Case Law Update: Discovery Violations in Personal Injury Case

Posted on November 04, 2008
Negrete v. National Railroad Passenger Corp, No. 07-3287 (10/27/08) held that the District Court did not abuse discretion in dismissing under Rule 37(b)(2)(A)(v) plaintiff's personal injury lawsuit as sanction for various discovery violations. Record showed that plaintiff attempted to hide extent of his income and withheld unfavorable portions of his medical records...

Man in Gary Coleman personal injury lawsuit says he is not Coleman?s bodyguard

Posted on November 03, 2008
As a follow-up to the personal injury lawsuit filed against Gary Coleman?s alleged bodyguard, the person alleged to have hurt the plaintiff made a claim of a crucial distinction. The distinction, he claims, is that he was just a buddy and not a bodyguard of Gary Coleman...

Can brand name drug makers be liable for generics?

Posted on November 02, 2008
Maybe. A California appeals court ruling in products liability put brand name drug makers on notice that they can be held liable not only for injuries caused by their own brand name medications, but also personal injuries caused by generic drug makers...

Several People Personally Injured When Chicago Ambulance Hits Cars

Posted on October 31, 2008
Several people, including two children, were personally injured in a traffic crash involving three cars and a Chicago fire department ambulance on the Northwest Side of Chicago. After assessing initial reports, none of the personal injuries seemed to be life threatening...

Two People Seriously Injured in Fire

Posted on October 29, 2008
Chicago suburban Wheeling firefighters found two seriously injured people lying in the grass outside their burning building when they responded to an apartment fire early in the morning. The first responders quickly tended to a man with second- and third-degree burns covering half of his body...

Case Law Update: Snow and Ice Removal Act Bars Plaintiff from Suit

Posted on October 29, 2008

Men Personally Injured After Chicago Scaffold Falls in Chicago

Posted on October 28, 2008
Two workers are in critical condition with personal injuries after scaffolding collapsed on the side of a Chicago River North building seven stories above the ground, which lead to a dramatic mid-day rescue. 50 firefighters worked to save the two men, one of whom was pinned against the building while the second managed to climb to the top of the building...

Family Sues Chicago Public School After Son Dies in Gym Class

Posted on October 24, 2008
The family of a boy who died after suffering a seizure in gym class is suing Chicago Public Schools and the Board of Education claiming the boy was not supposed to be participating in gym class in the first place. The young boy died after having a seizure and collapsing in gym class...

Cribs Across the Country are Being Recalled

Posted on October 22, 2008
Delta Enterprise Corp. will announce a recall Tuesday of 1.59 million cribs linked to two infant which continues a string of recent recalls of cribs and bassinets involving other manufactures. The spokesperson for the company said the recall stems from two different types of problematic hardware used on cribs sold from 1995 through 2005...

Chicago man dies after police taser him

Posted on October 19, 2008
A Chicago man died Saturday after police used a taser gum when he approached them with a homemade knife. No officers were hurt during the confrontation and the incident was being evaluated by the Independent Police Review Authority. For the full article...

Extra alarm fire damages Chicago Chinatown restaurant

Posted on October 19, 2008
A Chicago Chinatown neighborhood restaurant experienced severe damages after flames broke out in the eatery?s kitchen and spread through the building. Luckily, the Chicago restaurant was located right across the street from a fire station so they responded immediately...

Illinois car accident subject of personal injury lawsuit

Posted on October 18, 2008
A personal injury lawsuit has been filed in Illinois from a car accident that occurred on Interstate 270 in December 2006. The Illinois personal injury plaintiff was driving on I-270 when he was hit by a vehicle behind him. The Illinois lawsuit claims that the defendant failed to keep a proper lookout, failed to maintain a proper distance, failed to maintain a proper speed, and failed to stop his vehicle...

Woman who miscarried settles wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits with police

Posted on October 17, 2008
A woman who miscarried after two officers failed to get her medical treatment has reached a settlement in her wrongful death lawsuit and personal injury lawsuit filed against the police. The lawsuits claimed that the officers caused the death of her child when they denied her medical care during a traffic stop in 2006...

Ex-student who alleged rape against athletes files personal injury lawsuit against university

Posted on October 16, 2008
A former student who had alleged three former student athletes of sexual assault has now filed a personal injury lawsuit against the university. The personal injury lawsuit alleges that various administrators attempted to cover up the alleged assaults...

Woman jailed for $800K workers? comp fraud

Posted on October 16, 2008
A woman who defrauded the Workers? Compensation Board of nearly $800K while working there as a case manager has received a prison sentence. She was sentenced to three years in prison. The severe prison sentence was because this was a theft of a very large scale from an employer who trusted her...

Lincoln Park Soccer Field Alleged to Be Toxic

Posted on October 15, 2008
Protect Our Parks, a not-for-profit corporation just filed a three-count lawsuit claiming a soccer field in the Chicago area of Lincoln Park is toxic because the field?s artificial turf contains lead. The field is located at 1840 N. Cannon Dr. The lawsuit claims lead is a toxic metal...

Legal Malpractice Suit Goes to Deliberation

Posted on October 15, 2008
A man?s legal malpractice suit against a law firm and one of its former attorneys went to jury deliberation after a trial that has featured a parade of legal and medical experts that lasted over three weeks. The issue in the trial is whether the lawyer inappropriately accepted a $15,000 settlement offer from the University of Maryland Medical System on the patient?s behalf, three years after the man nearly drowned in a break boating accident on the Susquehanna River...

Driver in Speed Related Accident Charged With Negligence

Posted on October 13, 2008
A man has been charged with negligence after the car that he was driving flipped over multiple times as a result of his excessive speed while driving. The car had four passengers, two of which were ejected from the car in the crash. One of the two ejected was the driver, who was in the hospital for a week but is now out of the hospital...

Companies Will Disclose Physicians Fees

Posted on October 13, 2008
Eli Lilly and Company became the first major drug maker to commit to physician payment disclosure, representing the newest example of the pharmaceutical industry?s openness about its practices. Now Merck & Company announced it will be releasing such disclosures...

Drug makers say no cough or cold medicine for kids under 4 years old

Posted on October 11, 2008
In a concession to pediatricians, drug companies said today that children under four years old should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. Pediatricians have expressed doubt over whether the medicine works on kids and worry about potential product liability issues with the drugs being unsafe for kids...

Chicago Bar Louie Closes Due to Rat Droppings

Posted on October 11, 2008
Chicago city health inspectors are closing a West Loop Bar Louie restaurant. The restaurant was closed after inspectors found over 1,000 rat feces in a basement storage area. The restaurant was also cited for front and rear doors with gaps that allow access to rodents and insects, fruit flies in the kitchen, a poorly maintained outside garbage area, no sanitizing solution in the dishwashing machine and no hot water...

3 Children And Two Adults Killed in Fire

Posted on October 11, 2008
A family of five, including three children as young as 15 months, died in a blaze that filled an apartment with thick black smoke and kept the victims from escaping through the front door. One 10-year-old boy survived and is now in critical condition after the fire in a city?s public housing complex...

Zyprexa warning labels expanded

Posted on October 10, 2008
Eleven years after the drug hit the market and twelve years after a large study indicated that use of the drug increased risks for weight gain and diabetes, pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly has finally expanded its warning labels on its best selling product Zyprexa...

Supreme Court Set to Review Verdict Against Drug Maker

Posted on October 10, 2008
On November 3, the Supreme Court will review the case Wyeth v. Levine regarding whether FDA approval of prescription-drug label precludes any state FDA approved the Phenergan label, Levine sued the drug maker, Wyeth, in Vermont state court, alleging the company failed to provide adequate warnings on the label about the risks of push IV injections...

Illinois slip and fall lawsuit reaches settlement

Posted on October 09, 2008
An Illinois plaintiff who suffered a slip and fall at a Lowe?s has settled his Illinois personal injury lawsuit. The Illinois lawsuit claimed that the plaintiff was shopping for plumbing supplies just over a year ago when he tripped and fell on a piece of plywood that was lying on the floor...

States sue pharmaceutical company to recover money spent on Vioxx

Posted on October 08, 2008
Pharmaceutical company Merck is facing lawsuits by numerous states over what they allege was deceptive marketing of the painkiller Vioxx. One state is seeking restitution for all money spent by state health programs on Vioxx, plus interest. Merck was the subject of numerous product liability lawsuits after research showed that Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attack and stroke...

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