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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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Train Crash Involving 25 Deaths Believed to be Result of Engineer Text Messaging

Posted on September 22, 2008
It has been found that the engineer of a deadly train crash, that led to the wrongful deaths of 25 people and causing personal injuries to 130 more, was text messaging while on duty and is believed to have been text messaging at the time of the crash...

Nine Passengers Injured in CTA Bus Crash

Posted on September 22, 2008
Nine people were personally injured when in a Chicago Transit Authority bus crashed into two vehicles. The bus crash happened near 63rd and South Artesian Avenue on the South Side of Chicago. Eight of the injured were to taken to local hospitals with personal injuries...

Toddler home after brain injury from drowning

Posted on September 21, 2008
A Midwestern child recently returned home after suffering brain injury after he was found face-down in the family?s swimming pool. The 22-month-old was admitted into a hospital after the drowning. The child was put on a respirator and was in a comatose state with severe brain injury...

Pit Bull Attacks Six Year Old

Posted on September 21, 2008
A Chicago Boy was hospitalized after undergoing plastic surgery after a neighbor?s dogs attacked the 6-year old. The boy doesn?t play with the dogs, yet they see him every day. The incident began when the boy was retrieving a ball that had gone across a fence in the neighbor?s yard...

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Families file products liability lawsuit against drug maker over baby death

Posted on September 20, 2008
The families of two newborns who died after inadvertently receiving massive doses of heparin have filed a products liability lawsuit against the Illinois-based company that makes the blood thinner. The lawsuit does not specify damages. The error occurred in part because of a mix up regarding the labeling of the pharmaceutical...

Personal injury lawsuit against Isuzu reaches settlement

Posted on September 19, 2008
Two teenagers who filed a personal injury lawsuit after a car accident have recently settled their lawsuit against the manufacturer of the vehicle they were driving. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but were quoted to be satisfactory to both parties...

Parents file personal injury lawsuit following son?s death

Posted on September 18, 2008
The parents of a 13 year-old boy who died after being hit by a jet ski have filed a personal injury lawsuit against an outdoor recreation program. The personal injury lawsuit seeks $5 million in damages. For the full article.

Birth injury spotlight: what are symptoms of Erb?s palsy

Posted on September 18, 2008
In general, there are four types of nerve injuries common in birth injuries. 1. A stretch injury that ?shocks? but does not tear the nerve. Normally, these heal on their own. 2. A stretch injury that damages some of the nerve fibers may result in scar tissue...

Family of boy scout settles personal injury lawsuit

Posted on September 17, 2008
Last summer, a nine-year old boy was killed at a boy scout camp by a falling totem pole. The family reached a $1.38 million dollar agreement, settling the personal injury lawsuit filed against two scouting organizations and an insurance company. For the full article...

Police Investigate Death of 92-year-old Woman

Posted on September 17, 2008
Detectives in the Chicago suburb of Riverdale are investigating after authorities said a 92-year-old woman who died their recently may have been abused. The woman was pronounced dead in a Harvey Hospital. The spokesperson for the Cook County Medical Examiner?s Office stated that the woman possibly suffered elderly abuse...

Personal injury victim now victim of embezzlement

Posted on September 17, 2008
A victim who filed a personal injury lawsuit could not figure out why he had gotten so little money in the judgment from a personal injury lawsuit. His attorney worked out a settlement for about $3,000 with the restaurant, but the check that the personal injury victim received only amounted to about $370...

Birth injury spotlight: how does Erb?s palsy occur?

Posted on September 17, 2008
Brachial plexus stretch injuries in newborns usually occurs during a difficult delivery. This birth injury can occur with a large baby, a breech presentation, or a prolonged labor. It may also occur when the person assisting the delivery delivers the baby quickly and uses force to pull the baby from the birth canal...

Assault can be linked to brain injury increase

Posted on September 17, 2008
A new report found that assaults could lead to a rise in the number of traumatic brain injuries. A recent report found that young people, infants, and women are the most likely to be brain injury victims. Brain injury is ten times more common than spinal injury and on average three times as disabling...

Birth injury spotlight: more information about Erb?s palsy

Posted on September 17, 2008
Erb?s palsy is a birth injury that one or two of every 1,000 have. Most infants with brachial plexus birth palsy will recover movement and feeling in the affected arm. However, parents have to be watchful and participate in the treatment process to ensure maximum functional recovery...

Nationwide study to examine posttraumatic stress and brain injury

Posted on September 16, 2008
A nationwide study to understand the nature behind post-traumatic stress disorder has been launched in the U.S. Funded by the Department of Defense Psychological Health/Traumatic Brain Injury Research Program, the study will be a $60 million, five-year, 10-site Clinic consortium...

3 Injured in Another Crane Accident

Posted on June 13, 2008
Construction at the new Cowboys stadium hit a bump on Thursday when three workers were injured in a construction accident. The workers were on a crane when cables and equipment fell from another crane, forcing them to jump off the one they were standing on...

Motorbike Accident Kills One Chicago Teen and Leaves Another in Critical Condition

Posted on June 13, 2008
A fatal motorbike accident left one youth dead and another critically injured after an accident on Chicago, Illinois? northwest side. The motorbike crash involved a Suzuki Burgman bike and another car. An unknown citation was given to the driver of the car who claims that she was not a reckless negligent driver and was not at fault...

Train Derailment Leaves Investigators Stumped...Literally

Posted on June 13, 2008
A multi car train derailment leaves investigators baffled. A train accident involving four locomotive cars and sixteen freight train cars where derailed off the tracks due to an obstruction placed on the train tracks. Investigators said that two large tree stumps were placed on the train track in an attempt to have a train accident occur...

Chicago Fire Injures Two, One Critically

Posted on June 13, 2008
A fire on Chicago?s South Side resulted in two serious personal injuries. The potentially deadly fire occurred early Friday morning in the 1800 block of South Troy Street. By the time the Chicago Fire Department had arrived, the fire was at full force and an 88-year old woman had already escaped and collapsed outside the building, where firefighters found her in stable condition...

Metra Train Strikes (A Car!) Again

Posted on June 12, 2008
The Chicago, Illinois suburb of Palatine became the sight of the most recent train accident involving a Metra train and a car. The car?s negligent driver was given a citation for failing to move from the train tracks. Luckily the mixture of the location of the car on train tracks did not result in any fatal car crash or any serious personal injuries...

IDOT Workers Killed in Separate Accidents: Brings Total Up To 3 Deaths

Posted on June 12, 2008
Wednesday morning 2 Illinois Department of Transportation workers died while painting a bridge in Elgin. The workers? truck came into contact with a power-line and by the time firefighters arrived on the scene the truck was encased in flames. Both men were so severely burned that they were pronounced dead on the scene...

Former Tort Reform Advocate Realizes the Harm from Damage Caps

Posted on June 12, 2008
A former tort reform advocate recently discovered the degree of harm tort reform measures can cause on wronged patients. The advocate, a medical oncologist and an original force behind his state?s tort reform movement, admitted that tort reform has had the unintended consequence of juries denying admittedly wronged patients any recovery...

IDOT Worker Killed in Interstate Car Accident

Posted on June 12, 2008
A fatal car accident left an Illinois Department of Transportation worker killed yesterday. A deadly interstate accident on a Chicago, Illinois interstate left the road worker dead and another individual with car accident injuries. The injured interstate worker suffered from a head injury and a brain injury but was released from the hospital...

55 Million Dollar Verdict for Car Accident Victim

Posted on June 11, 2008
A four year old car crash victim finally received civil court justice after reaching receiving a nearly 55 million dollar jury verdict. The four year old, was a car accident passenger who faced nearly life threatening injuries. Five years after the crash the youth remains a quadriplegic suffering brain injuries and placed on a ventilator...

Boeing 737 Crashes, One Lucky Toddler Found Alive

Posted on June 10, 2008
An accidental airplane crash occurred just minutes ago. The large airliner crash held nearly 115 passengers. It is unlikely that any passengers will survive the plane accident. If any passenger is lucky to do so they will most likely suffer burn injuries or personal injuries to a drastic extent given observations of a plane in flames...

Second Incident at Bloomer?s; No Deaths or Injuries Reported Yet

Posted on June 10, 2008
For the second time in three days, paramedics and firefighters rushed to the Bloomer?s Chocolate factory near the Loop to put out a small fire. While the fire did not cause any injuries, officials were concerned that it might be related to a chemical reaction that led to the death of a worker on Sunday after he inhaled hazardous toxins...

Wandering Nursing Home Resident Found Brutally Murdered

Posted on June 10, 2008
A nursing home lawsuit is to be filed by the family of a woman who was prone to nursing home wandering. The woman, a 46 year old, with a history of seizures and brain injuries was found naked in a motel in Chicago, Illinois after wandering off from an alleged negligent nursing home...

Levin & Perconti Will Sponsor the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy

Posted on June 09, 2008
Levin & Perconti will sponsor the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy?s Chicago Lawyer Chapter this coming year. ACS is a national organization of lawyers, judges, law professors, law students, and policymakers that seek to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, and equality and justice continue to hold their central place in American law...

Infamous CTA Third Rail Electrifies Again

Posted on June 09, 2008
Chicago, Illinois death occurs after a man is found injured and dead on the CTA brown line. The Cook County death of the man thought to be in his early 20s is currently under investigation. The CTA?s ?L? line has been the subject of many notorious CTA accidents, injuries and death over the past few weeks...

Chicago Police Department Paying Heavily for Negligent Shooting of Grandmother

Posted on June 09, 2008
Negligent Chicago police are held liable for the shooting of a personal injury lawsuit and a gun shot injury left the Chicago family with a half a million dollar wrongful death settlement, a sum that does little to heal the emotional wounds of the shooting...

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