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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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FDA cautions about heart risk with Parkinson?s drug

Posted on August 25, 2010
In the latest update regarding product liability and harmful pharmaceutical interactions, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that it is investigating the possibility that the combination Parkinson?s drug called Stalevo may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death in elderly patients who are taking the drug...

Illinois medical malpractice and conviction records taken offline

Posted on August 23, 2010
The State of Illinois formerly provided its state citizens with useful and valuable information and detailed histories of its state?s doctors, including vital information such as whether the Illinois physician was convicted of a crime, fired by a hospital, or forced to make Illinois medical malpractice payments within the previous five years...

To prevent Illinois traffic accidents, some south suburbs go ?hands free?

Posted on August 21, 2010
As most of the readers of our Illinois personal injury lawyer blog know, texting in Illinois while driving can get you pulled over and ticketed by police in Illinois. And, Chicago drivers have known that talking and driving on the cell phone can similarly result in such penalties...

Food and Drug Administration announces many product recalls in August 2010

Posted on August 19, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced several product recalls this month and the month is not even over. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products and frequently announces product recalls...

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Several Chicago-area motor vehicle accidents result in deaths, injuries

Posted on August 17, 2010
Over the past few days, several individuals received personal injuries and some unfortunately passed away after several individual Illinois motor vehicle accidents in the south suburban areas of Chicago. A teenager from a south suburb of Chicago died after he lost control of a sports utility vehicle that he was driving near the Illinois city of Country Club Hills...

8 dead and 10 injured after driver loses control in race

Posted on August 16, 2010
Local authorities reported that eight people were killed and ten people received personal injuries after a driver racing in a motor vehicle race lost control of his off-roader vehicle. The vehicle went airborne in the motor vehicle accident and landed on top of spectators...

Chinese drywall product liability complaints reach 6300

Posted on August 13, 2010
Recent reports from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are showing that the number of estimated reports of Chinese drywall product liability have reached 6300. This number is composed from homeowners across the nation who have complained of having defective Chinese drywall...

Pharmaceutical company reaches $198 million settlement of 17,500 Seroquel lawsuits

Posted on August 11, 2010
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca Plc is set to pay roughly $198 million dollars to settle about 17,500 product liability lawsuits. The product liability lawsuits alleged that AstraZeneca?s antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes some users to develop diabetes...

Construction set to improve safety at dangerous Chicago railroad crossing

Posted on August 09, 2010
A rail crossing that is infamous for Chicago railroad car crashes is set to be rebuilt this month in order to improve safety before high school classes resume for students who cross the path over the railroad to get to school. Additionally, the Illinois Commerce Commission has urged that the city of Chicago increase traffic enforcement to reduce Chicago train-vehicle crashes at the congested Nagle Avenue crossing on the Union Pacific Railroad corridor...

BP faces as much as $17.6 billion in civil fines for Gulf oil spill

Posted on August 07, 2010
Now that BP is finally on the verge of capping its well, the source of the largest oil spill in United States history, the oil company?s focus must now shift toward the cleanup of the Gulf and the expensive civil liability fines that it faces stemming from the disaster...

Toyota recalls 400,000 vehicles to fix steering faults

Posted on August 05, 2010
In the latest news of vehicle safety concerns, the Los Angeles Times reported that Toyota announced the recall of 412,000 Avalon and Lexus vehicles for steering problems. This means that since October, nearly 9 million cars have been subject to product recalls around the world...

Passage of Food Safety bill urged

Posted on August 03, 2010
The Food Safety Bill is currently bogged down in the United States Senate; however, advocates against unsafe food products are urging its quick passage. There is widespread knowledge and understanding that the Food Safety Bill is long overdue and common sense; moreover, it is needed to finally update our country?s horse-and-buggy-era food safety laws...

Injury lawsuits promote car safety and product safety

Posted on August 01, 2010
As the Chicago product liability lawyers at Levin & Perconti have mentioned before, personal injury lawsuits and other negligence lawsuits hold product makers accountable to their consumers. Through the civil justice system, consumers have a voice. The Filipino-American Community Newspaper has addressed these issues in a recent article...

Chicago nursing homes reprimanded for misleading its mentally ill patients

Posted on July 30, 2010
The Chicago nursing home lawyers at Levin & Perconti were happy to know that for-profit Chicago nursing home operators were finally issued a stinging reprimand from a federal judge this week. The judge called the misleading Chicago nursing homes out for using ?scare tactics? to persuade psychiatric patients to remain in nursing home facilities rather than moving to supportive community housing that specializes in serving the mentally ill...

Most employees from former State-run facility were not fired

Posted on July 28, 2010
Our Illinois readers may remember that the Howe Developmental Center in Tinley Park, Illinois was criticized for being the worst-run state facility for developmentally disabled adults in Illinois. It was a place where Illinois employee neglect and abuse was blamed for dozens of Illinois wrongful deaths...

Two killed in Chicago-area train accident

Posted on July 26, 2010
The Southtown Star reported that a Chicago South Shore commuter train collided with a car on Friday just east of Gary. The Illinois train accident resulted in the deaths of town women in the car after it drove around a crossing arm at a rail crossing...

University?s PET research halted after repeated violations of FDA regulations

Posted on July 24, 2010
The New York Times reported this week that a university has quietly stopped research at a well-known brain imaging center after federal investigators found that it had regularly injected mental patients with drugs that contained potentially dangerous impurities...

Chicago traffic deaths decline due to safer roads and safer vehicles

Posted on July 22, 2010
The numbers are shocking and eye-opening. Nearly 300,000 Chicago traffic accidents occur yearly and a Chicago deadly accident takes place every 21.5 hours. However, one study shows that some measures have resulted in about 200 lives being saved each year in Chicago...

Former pro football player files premises liability lawsuit over facility?s collapse

Posted on July 20, 2010
A former pro-football player from the Dallas Cowboys has filed a premises liability lawsuit against a facility builder and companies operated by the team owner. The former pro player was inside the team?s indoor practice facility when it collapsed last year and sustained a career-ending injury...

Illinois continues to press for license revocation of Southland nursing home

Posted on July 19, 2010
According to a recent Southtown Star article, Illinois state health officials announced last week that they are continuing to press ahead with a license revocation of a Southland nursing home based on the nursing home?s history of substandard nursing home care, including nursing home abuse and neglect...

Product liability complaints filed in Chicago against health products company

Posted on July 16, 2010
Several U.S. consumers have filed suit against Johnson & Johnson, the world?s largest health-products company in federal court in Chicago. The racketeering lawsuits stem from Johnson & Johnson?s product recalls from earlier this year and accuse the company of fraud and racketeering and demands cash refunds for recalled children?s cold and allergy medicines...

Senate faces pressure to pass food safety bill

Posted on July 14, 2010
It has been roughly a year since House Democrats and Republicans approved legislation aimed to improve food safety. Now, public health advocates concerned about recent food safety recalls are growing frustrated that the United States Senate has yet to take up the bill...

Illinois motorcycle accident and car crash over the weekend claim two young lives

Posted on July 12, 2010
An Illinois man, only twenty-five years of age, was pronounced dead early yesterday morning after the motorcycle he was driving crashed this morning in Park Forest, a suburb of Chicago. Officials say that the victim of the Illinois motorcycle crash was pronounced dead at 8:10 a...

FDA to review diabetes drug?s safety

Posted on July 11, 2010
Ten years after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was accused of downplaying the side effects from the popular diabetes drug Avandia, the agency reports that it will reveal the data it is reviewing ahead of an advisory panel meeting about the drug?s safety...

FDA sends warning letter to asthma drug maker

Posted on July 08, 2010
According to Business Week, the Food and Drug Administration (?FDA?) announced earlier this week that it has sent a warning letter to drugmaker Cornerstone Therapeutics Inc. The product liability warning letter alleges that the company?s promotional materials withheld information about the risks of its asthma drug Zyflo CR...

Governor signs Illinois bicycle safety law

Posted on July 06, 2010
Yesterday at Campbell Street Bicycle Shop in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed Illinois bicycle safety legislation into law designed to better protect bicyclists in the state. League of Illinois Bicyclists executive director says that the bills will help both motorists and bicyclists do their parts in sharing our roadways safely...

Fireworks accident critically injures Chicago man

Posted on July 05, 2010
Unfortunately, yearly on this holiday, stories hit the Chicago newspapers of Illinois residents injured by fireworks. And unfortunately again, this year is no different. A 28 year-old South Chicago man received severe personal injuries in a Chicago fireworks accident over the weekend...

Lawmaker divests troubled Illinois nursing home stake

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Illinois state Senator Heather Steans has divested her ownership interest in a southwest suburban nursing home that has faced repeated citations for serious patient neglect. Some of the citations for patient neglect include medical failures that allegedly contributed to the Illinois wrongful death of two patients...

Several Illinois personal injuries from salmonella food poisoning at Skokie Country Club

Posted on July 01, 2010
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that two people remain hospitalized and several more are recovering from Illinois personal injuries after a salmonella food poisoning outbreak at the Skokie Country Club in the suburb of Glencoe in Illinois. Cook County health officials are still investigating the nature and cause of the Illinois salmonella outbreak...

Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, House Judiciary Committee approves measure to repeal Limitation of Liability Act

Posted on June 28, 2010
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would repeal the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851, making it easier for families of those killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion through wrongful death lawsuits or personal injury lawsuits to sue for punitive damages...

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