If your parent has become the resident of an Illinois nursing home, you likely spend a fair amount of time worrying about whether or not (s)he is getting the care (s)he needs and deserves. Unfortunately, sometimes you have cause for concern. While most nursing homes...
One of the hardest decisions made by adult children is to place a beloved parent in a care facility. Those who have Alzheimer's or dementia will need the addition of security features to prevent them from wandering away from the property. Assisted living facilities,...
Parents in Illinois probably realize that driving with kids in the car can be a big distraction. To keep everyone safe and prevent avoidable accidents, parents should recognize some of the main issues and know how to deal with them so they do not become a problem....
Student Ethan Roser, only 19 years old, was tragically killed in April 2017 while volunteering at a college track and field meet. He was struck in the head by a 16 pound hammer thrown during a practice exercise. When he was struck, Ethan was standing in an area...
After approximately 5 years of litigation, the case involving a 10 year old girl who fell 18 feet when an inflatable slide that was not secured inside the school gym tipped over has resolved for $1,945,000.00. The supplier of the slide and the school PTO which was...
Though the majority of births occur without incident, each year over 50,000 women are severely inured and approx. 700 die. As shown in the article by Alison Young that appeared today in USA Today, more than a half-million pages of internal hospital quality records...
By a vote of 218 to 210, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed HR 1215 entitled “Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017” but it does not actually protect access to care. This bill establishes provisions governing health care lawsuits where coverage for the...
House GOP quietly advances key elements of tort reform House Republicans are advancing a series of bills that would make changes to the civil justice system long sought by doctors and U.S. corporations, including a cap on some medical malpractice awards and new...
There have been recent, unbelievable changes in trucking safety rules that jeopardize our collective safety. As reported in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and US News and World Report on December 8, 2016, the trucking industry scored a victory that week when...
For years, the nursing home industry has attempted to evade responsibility for injuries to their residents by including forced arbitration clauses in their contracts (typically in fine print) which remove the right to file a lawsuit to recover for injuries and,...