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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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Illinois-based company pulls weight loss drug from market

Posted on October 13, 2010
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week that Illinois-based pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories has agreed to remove its obesity drug Meridia off of the market. The Illinois company voluntarily withdrew the drug because trial studies showed an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes in individuals who used the drug...

New study addresses undiagnosed brain injuries in high school players

Posted on October 12, 2010
A new study of an Indiana high school football team shows that athletes are suffering brain injuries that go undiagnosed and allow the players to continue getting battered. Of the 21 high school players monitored for the season, 4 individuals who had never been diagnosed with concussions were found to have suffered brain impairment that was at least as bad as that of other players who had been determined to have concussions and then removed from play...

DePuy Hip Implant Lawsuits on the Rise

Posted on October 11, 2010
The Wisconsin Law Journal reports today that the number of class-action and individual civil lawsuits over DePuy Orthopaedics hip implants are on the rise. One DePuy hip recall lawyer estimates that there will be over 4,000 lawsuits filed against the negligent manufacturer whose faulty medical devices have failed at a very high rate...

Cook County personal injury lawsuit filed after injuries sustained in Transformers filming

Posted on October 10, 2010
We all remember the Transformers 3 filming that took over the Chicagoland this summer. In early September, when the film was shooting in northwest Indiana, a young movie extra suffered a severe head injury during a stunt when an object went through the windshield of her 2006 car on Cline Avenue in Hammond, Indiana, just northeast of Chicago...

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Chicago teenager in critical condition after sustaining train accident injuries

Posted on October 09, 2010
It has not even been a week since the Cook County accident attorneys blogged about the dangers of Chicago-area train crossings. Unfortunately, such accidents were in the news again recently after a Chicago teenage boy received serious personal injuries after being hit by a Metra commuter train on Chicago?s Northwest Side on Tuesday afternoon...

The real danger of medical errors going unreported

Posted on October 07, 2010
Yesterday, the Chicago medical malpractice lawyers discussed one state?s medical error reporting program and its flaws. These flaws have real, human, personal effects that the Chicago personal injury attorneys wanted to address. Numerous real people with real families are harmed on a yearly basis by faulty medical care...

Medical errors often go unreported

Posted on October 06, 2010
Although many of these statistics are from a state many miles away, the Illinois medical malpractice lawyers at Levin & Perconti find it important to highlight SeattlePI.com?s look at Washington?s medical error reporting program, which still allows medical errors to fall through the cracks...

Car clips Chicago Brown Line train

Posted on October 04, 2010
A car clipped the back of a CTA Brown Line train on Saturday afternoon after unsafely reportedly going around a grade-crossing gate outside of a North Side train station, according to police and CTA officials. Luckily, no people were injured. Like the car-train accident this weekend, Chicago train safety has been an issue that has repeatedly gathered media attention in the recent months...

Two Chicago-area men die after motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents

Posted on October 03, 2010
The Chicago personal injury attorneys at Levin & Perconti are sad to report on recent deaths related to motorcycle accidents and motor vehicle accidents. In situations where victims are killed due to the negligence of another party, a Chicago wrongful death lawsuit may be filed...

Saying goodbye to forced consumer arbitration?

Posted on October 01, 2010
Fighting forced consumer arbitration has been a long fight, but consumer groups are saying that they have never been closer to victory. Whether you know it or not, forced arbitration is a topic that affects all of us. Whenever you buy a car, get a new cell phone plan, or open a new credit card, there is a good chance that you are signing away your right to seek immediate justice in court when you are signing those lengthy contracts...

DePuy Hip Implant Sufferers- When to Seek Legal Help

Posted on October 01, 2010
As we have reported, a number of patients who received DePuy Orthopaedics ASR Hip implants are now coming forward to seek justice for the pain, suffering and expenses they experienced due to faulty artificial hips. According to a report by Bloomberg News, by the end of 2008, DePuy and its parent company Johnson & Johnson had received 300 complaints of implant failure, however the company did not recall the ASR XL Acetabular or ASR Hip Resurfacing systems until August 26, 2010...

Baseball prospect?s family wins $131 SUV rollover lawsuit

Posted on September 29, 2010
ESPN reported that the family of a major league baseball prospect who was killed in 2001 in an SUV rollover accident after leaving spring training won a multi-million judgment against the Ford Motor Company. The baseball prospect died from personal injuries sustained when his Ford Explorer SUV veered off of the highway and rolled over...

Meat farmers prepare for limits on antibiotics

Posted on September 28, 2010
The New York Times addressed that the United States government is now focusing on the use of antibiotics in farm animals. The use of antibiotics to health animals is routine on large, concentrated farms that dominate American agriculture. However, the practice is now increasingly condemned by medical experts who state that there is food safety issues with the use of antibiotics with farm animals...

Illinois Patients Sue DePuy Orthopaedics Over Defective Hip Implants

Posted on September 28, 2010
In the wake of a voluntary product recall on August 26, DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of health care giant Johnson & Johnson, is now facing a number of class action and individual lawsuits surrounding the ASR XL Acetabular System for hip replacements...

Hip replacement products recalled

Posted on September 27, 2010
The USA Today recently revealed a hip replacement product recall that may affect many consumers. Johnson & Johnson?s artificial joint business issued a product recall of two hip replacement products only two days after a government warning was issued...

Texting bus driver found guilty of reckless driving

Posted on September 24, 2010
It only took jurors about 10 minutes to return the misdemeanor guilty verdict for reckless driving because the defendant was texting. The Chicago car accident lawyers at Levin & Perconti think that is a very fast verdict ? usually jurors take a bit longer to review the law and deliberate...

FDA warns five e-cigarette distributors of product safety violations

Posted on September 22, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings to five individual e-cigarette distributors, stating that it intends to regulate electronic cigarettes and related products, since they are considered both a drug and a device under federal law...

Naperville wrongful death lawsuit filed after pool death

Posted on September 20, 2010
A Naperville wrongful death lawsuit has been filed following a pool death in Crete, Illinois. The mother of the Naperville victim filed an Illinois wrongful death lawsuit against the owner of the Crete property. The 23 year-old wrongful death victim was killed when he dove into a 4-foot-deep pool in June at a home in Crete...

Illinois wrongful death lawsuit filed after casino golf-cart accident

Posted on September 19, 2010
The executors of the estate of an 88 year-old wrongful death victim killed after a gold-cart accident at an Illinois casino are suing the casino company. The 88 year-old Illinois woman passed away after a Rock Island casino employee hit her with a golf cart last June in 2009...

Chicago porch railing safety could be a matter of life and death

Posted on September 16, 2010
Chicago CBS2 investigators have recently talked to a mother of a young man who died after falling off of a Lincoln Park deck in 2007. Chicago personal injury lawyer Steven M. Levin was also interviewed during the report. The mother of the Chicago wrongful death victim highlighted the importance of the height of porch railings...

A dangerous mix: jurors and social networking sites

Posted on September 14, 2010
Lawyers and courts throughout America are becoming more tech-savvy. The Chicago personal injury lawyers at Levin & Perconti are blogging, as our readers are well-aware. Cook County judges are strict about the use of cell phones in the courtroom and judges around the country are beginning to confiscate smart phones during court...

Illinois car accident deaths and personal injuries plummet in 2009

Posted on September 12, 2010
The Chicago personal injury lawyers at Levin & Perconti are happy to report good news: recent reports show that fatalities have dropped almost 10% from 2008 as the number of traffic-related deaths dip to their lowest point since 1950. Although Americans drove slightly more in 2009 than 2008, traffic-related deaths were down 9...

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against kickboxing school

Posted on September 10, 2010
The family of a man who died after a kickboxing match has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the gym and trainer who managed the match. The wrongful death victim was only 27 years of age and had fought in a competition featured by the gym. The victim?s family alleges that the owner of the gym is at fault for the victim?s death because he should not have been allowed to fight in the match...

CPSC issues product recall for crib tents

Posted on September 08, 2010
During the winter of 2008, tragically after Christmas, the strangulation death of a child by a Tots in Mind crib tent became the first to be investigated by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to the CPSC, the child ? who was two years of age ? was found hanging with his neck entrapped between the play yard frame and the metal base rod of the tent that had been partially tied by pieces of nylon rope and partially attached by clips...

Levin & Perconti files Illinois wrongful death lawsuit against Manorcare in Hinsdale

Posted on September 06, 2010
Illinois nursing home abuse lawyers Steven M. Levin and Scott J. Richard of Chicago personal injury firm Levin & Perconti filed an Illinois wrongful death lawsuit against Hinsdale nursing home ManorCare Health Services in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Wednesday...

Transformers extra seriously hurt in Chicago-area filming

Posted on September 04, 2010
As those of us in Chicago are well aware, Transformers 3 has been forming in the Chicagoland area for the past month. Unfortunately, the filming brought tragic news earlier this week when a movie extra was hospitalized after suffering a serious head injury during a stunt...

Personal injury plaintiff files wrongful death lawsuit after infant death

Posted on September 02, 2010
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed after an infant son died because he was exposed to deadly chemicals escaping from the BP refinery after the oil spill. The wrongful death lawsuit seeks $10 billion from BP. The mother of the infant victim states the six-month-old son died in June from symptoms connected with pneumonia, which the wrongful death lawsuit alleges were worsened by lengthy exposure to the more than 500,000 pounds of chemicals released at the refinery between April 6 and May 16...

CDC reports car accidents cost $99 billion yearly

Posted on August 31, 2010
A new report issued by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) researchers found that in a one year period, the costs associated with personal injuries from car crashes exceeded $99 billion. The cost of direct medical care accounts for $17 billion. The total annual cost amounts to almost $500 for every licensed driver in the United States...

Two families agree to settle wrongful death lawsuits

Posted on August 30, 2010
Two families have agreed to settle their wrongful death lawsuits stemming from the crash of the February 2009 Continental Airlines crash that killed all 49 individuals on board the plane and one on the ground. According to a statement released by the family of the wrongful death victim?s plaintiff?s attorney, ?Some families, when they receive a significant offer, would choose to take it and move on...

Tasered Illinois man files lawsuit against Zion for personal injuries

Posted on August 28, 2010
An Illinois man is seeking a cash settlement from the suburban city of Zion and five Zion police officers for Illinois personal injuries sustained in addition to alleged violations of his civil rights. The plaintiff, a forty one year old man, claims that Illinois police officers in the city of Zion injured him near his residence when they Tasered him and allegedly manufactured evidence against him in relation a fight near his house...

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