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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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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:59:47

Product safety takes a big step forward

Posted on December 07, 2010
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently approved a Final Rule that will establish a publicly accessible consumer product safety complaint database. Manufacturers will no longer control the flow of information about their products; consumers will now be able to report their own complaints and research others via a web interface for the first time since the commission?s creation...

Cook County medical malpractice lawsuit OK?d for negligence in DuPage

Posted on December 06, 2010
An interesting Chicago Daily Law Bulletin article addressed a recent First District Appellate Court affirmation regarding a denied motion to transfer an Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit. Justice Robert E. Gordon explained in the opinion that the interest in deciding controversies locally may not be as strong in a medical malpractice lawsuit as in other litigation because the jury pool in DuPage County may include people familiar with the physicians and hospitals in their small county...

Unforeseen hazards add to toy-related injuries

Posted on December 03, 2010
The American Association for Justice reported that unforeseen hazards continue to be present in toys despite recently improved safety standards, demonstrated the necessity for a strong civil justice system that protects children who may be personally injured from such toys...

A look into the new version of Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 3.7

Posted on December 01, 2010
A recent Illinois Bar Journal article regarding New Ethics Rules by Donald E. Weihl looks into the new version of Rule 3.7 and provides explanations for Chicago-area and all Illinois attorneys. Though the new version of Rule 3.7 does not change the law, it expresses more clearly the circumstances under which lawyers must refute a case because they might be called to the witness stand...

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Steven Levin elected to the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care Leadership Council

Posted on November 29, 2010
The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care recently announced the results of its 2010 election at the 35th Annual Meeting and Conference. The new leadership elected to the Leadership Council included Chicago injury attorney Steven Levin of Levin & Perconti...

Chicago injury attorneys obtain $6.5 million birth injury settlement

Posted on November 28, 2010
An Illinois hospital and physician have agreed to a $6.5 million present cash value settlement for a young girl who suffered a brain injury during birth. The brain injury resulted in debilitating cerebral palsy with mild to moderate mental retardation and occurred when the Illinois hospital physicians failed to timely perform a Cesarean section...

Company issues product recall for window blinds after child?s death

Posted on November 20, 2010
A company seller of housewares over the Internet has issued a product recall of 523,500 window blinds after a child was strangled by a pull-cord, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The product recall covers both Roman shades and roll-up blinds sold by Hanover Direct through its Domestications, Company Store and Company Kids brands...

$16.2 Million Malpractice Settlement Approved By UIC Board

Posted on November 19, 2010
Two of our Chicago injury attorneys, Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby, recently reached a $17.7 million settlement agreement with the UIC Medical Center and a nursing agency on behalf of a victim of medical malpractice. In February of 2005 the victim was brought to the Neurosurgical Intensive Care unit at the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center after suffering a stroke...

Taser injury lawsuits against police officers allowed to proceed

Posted on November 18, 2010
Recent reports have indicated that Tasers have resulted in personal injuries and even wrongful death. Now, two Taser personal injury lawsuits against police officers have been allowed to proceed, including one in the Midwest. One legal case against the Frederick County Sheriff?s Office that has been brought by the family of a 20 year-old Frederick man who died after being Tasered in 2007 has been allowed to proceed as a result of a federal appeals court ruling last week...

$34 million awarded to nursing homes and other settings to fight healthcare associated infections

Posted on November 16, 2010
The U.S. Health and Human Service?s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced that it will be giving $34 million doctors to projects working to prevent healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities, hospitals, ambulatory care settings, and end-stage renal disease facilities...

Chinese drywall deal with Lowe?s is dropped

Posted on November 14, 2010
Product liability lawyers representing thousands of homeowners in a federal corrosive drywall case have dropped their opposition to a proposed settlement that Lowe?s Home Centers reached. The apparently turning point happened after a change in the settlement terms that increased the maximum payment from $4500 to $100,000...

Warnings on cigarette packs to be replaced with graphic images depicting smoking?s consequences

Posted on November 13, 2010
The United States is planning to join the ranks of more than 30 countries that require cigarette packages to carry large graphic photographs depicting the consequences of smoking. Studies consistently show that these disturbing images are effective at exposing the health risks, discouraging individuals from starting to smoke, and getting current smokers to quit smoking...

SCOTUS may pave way for corporations to cheat consumers

Posted on November 11, 2010
A recent article written by Gibson Vance, President of the American Association for Justice, in the Huffington Post addressed the possibilities that consumers may face if Supreme Court decides in favor of AT&T in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion. An eample posed by Mr...

Advice for individuals with DePuy hip implants

Posted on November 10, 2010
As our readers are aware, DePuy Orthopedics issued a product recall for two of its metal-on-metal hip implant devices due to a device malfunction causing a high rate of revision surgeries and metal debris from the devices? components spreading throughout a patient?s body...

How corporate money failed to deter the retention of Illinois Justice Kilbride

Posted on November 08, 2010
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride was recently retained after a heavy corporate press to vote ?no? during Justice Kilbride?s election for retention. The judge?s only ?sin? was siding with the Illinois court?s majority in striking down an unconstitutional ?cap? on compensation for victims of Illinois medical malpractice...

Notre Dame could face multimillion dollar negligence lawsuit

Posted on November 06, 2010
A recent article highlighted the damages that Notre Dame may face in negligence lawsuits flowing the tragic death of student Declan Sullivan. The 20 year-old Notre Dame victim passed away while he was videotaping the football practice during 50-mph winds when the lift he was standing on collapsed to the ground...

51 year-old woman files DePuy hip implant lawsuit

Posted on November 05, 2010
The Chicago product liability lawyers are very familiar with the faulty DePuy hip implants and found it interesting to learn that the first DePuy hip implant lawsuit was filed in Hawaii this week. A 51 year-old woman has filed a DePuy product liability lawsuit over problems she is having with the recalled DePuy implant...

Studies show that cell phones and driving do not mix; they may cost employers

Posted on November 02, 2010
Recent reports from the National Safety Council estimate that 200,000 crashes yearly are caused by drivers who are texting while driving. Further, a recent study conducted by Car and Driver Magazine concluded that texting and driving was more hazardous than drinking and driving ? with texting drivers having three to four times slower in their response rates than drivers under the influence! More than ever, Americans are using their cell phones to conduct business while driving ? receiving and sending documents, e-mailing, text messaging, even researching! But, this convenience and always ?on the clock? mentality comes with a price to all business owners ? distracted drivers who hurt or cause the wrongful death of another expose their employer to possible personal injury liabilities for their mistake...

$6.5 million settlement approved in Illinois truck accident lawsuit

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Circuit Court of Kane County approved a $6.5 million settlement in an Illinois trucking accident/Illinois wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a 32 year-old Illinois woman. The woman died exactly two years ago when a tractor-trailer owned by Geils Farms rear-ended the pick-up truck that the Illinois wrongful death victim was riding in with her husband and three year old son...

The hypocritical agenda of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Posted on October 29, 2010
A new report released by the American Association for Justice announced that the United States Chamber of Commerce (?Chamber?) enters two lawsuits weekly to advance its own agenda while blocking justice for everyday Americans. Earlier this month, the U...

Do you have a DePuy Hip Implant?

Posted on October 27, 2010
After the DePuy hip implant news, people with the recalled hip product are concerned about what they should do now. Whenever any dangerous product is recalled, people are concerned about how the product recall affects them. A whole new level of dangerousness and concern is added to the situation when the actual recalled product is implanted in the patient...

Support Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride

Posted on October 26, 2010
Last week, the Illinois Judges Association condemned the smear campaign that is aimed at Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride. The Illinois Judges Association stated that the attacks pose a ?direct threat to fairness and impartiality of all Illinois judges...

Illinois State Bar condemns attack on Justice Kilbride

Posted on October 24, 2010
CBS Chicago News reports that Illinois lawyers forming the Illinois State Bar Association has condemned an advertising campaign that a pro-business ?tort reform? group is running against Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride. The group is called JUSTPAC and has began to run radio ads in markets throughout Illinois in areas such as the Quad Cities, Will County, and Kankakee...

Editorial address the Supreme Court?s pre-emption test

Posted on October 23, 2010
Oral arguments were held last week in Bruesewitz vs. Wyeth and much of the argument turned on the meaning of the word ?unavoidable.? The editorial in The New York Times by the American Association for Justice addressed that the real issue was much bigger ? the case of whether the family of a girl who was badly injured by a vaccine can sue the manufacturer in state court...

2 million strollers recalled after four infant deaths

Posted on October 21, 2010
Earlier this week, Graco Children?s Products, Inc. in collaboration with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary product recall of approximately 2 million Quattro and MetroLife strollers after receiving reports of fourt infant strangulation deaths that occurred while infants were in the strollers between 2003 and 2005...

Change of heart for Chicago Tribune?s view on medical malpractice

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Center for Justice & Democracy?s Pop Tort blog is questioning whether the Chicago Tribune is taking a new stance regarding Illinois medical malpractice. ThePopTort.com pointed out that historically, the Chicago Tribune?s editorials have repeatedly endorsed draconian caps on compensation for patients...

Chicago bus crash under investigation

Posted on October 18, 2010
Over the weekend, a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus crash caused almost forty people personal injuries. The Chicago bus accident occurred after the bus ran off of Lake Shore Drive just south of Interstate Highway 55. CTA officials announced on Sunday that they continue to investigate a Chicago bus crash that caused nearly forty individuals Chicago personal injuries...

Illinois woman receives personal injuries in ATV accident

Posted on October 17, 2010
An Illinois woman received personal injuries in an ATV accident in McHenry County, Illinois over the weekend. Rescuers took the Chicago woman by helicopter to a hospital after she was injured in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) collision near Wonder Lake in McHenry County...

Concerns expressed over metal on metal hip implants

Posted on October 15, 2010
With the recent blogs about the DuPuy hip implant recalls, the Chicago product liability lawyers at Levin & Perconti found some pertinent articles on other hip implant concerns. Earlier this year, in March 2010, The New York Times addressed metal on metal hip implants...

Product liability lawsuit filed over faulty DePuy hip implant

Posted on October 14, 2010
Another DuPuy hip implant product liability lawsuit has been filed in federal court. According to the NBALaw Blog, a DePuy hip implant lawyer filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court on behalf of an elderly woman who was implanted with a recalled DePuy hip replacement system...

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