Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Article Highlights Pros and Cons of Long-Term Care Insurance

As previously discussed, Governor Quinn’s proposed $2.7 billion Medicaid cut has many that follow nursing home care — both patients and facilities alike — rightly concerned. It’s certainly reasonable to worry how many of us will pay for our necessary care once we can no longer care for ourselves. With this in mind, a Chicago…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Illinois Legislature to Consider Tightening Teen Driving Restrictions

We’ve spent time examining several potential new auto safety laws that took shape throughout last year. While most, if not all, of these are still in their initial phases, some of them (such as Chicago’s speeding camera proposal) made headlines. One that was flying a bit under the radar was a proposal that would raise the age…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Icy and Snow Roads and Car Crashes and Auto Accidents

Chicago “true” weather is back again and makes for very difficult driving conditions. Be careful! If someone has rear-ended you or slid into you and you believe they were not careful, contact us here immediately to assess the situation. We take calls and contact 24/7/365. And a reminder to all that not only in “good…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Former Nursing Home Employee Files Suit for Wrongful Termination After Reporting Neglect

As if the nursing home industry needed any more negative publicity, a story recently broke regarding a former employee of an Edwardsville nursing home. While on its face, the article appears to detail a lawsuit filed by a former nursing home employee that alleges she was fired after filing a workers’ compensation claim, there is…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Federal Government Considering Lawsuit Against Florida Nursing Home

The headlines in newspapers and websites across the country are often filled with troubling and heartbreaking stories of what can happen when under-staffed and under-funded nursing homes let resident safety and dignity fall by the wayside. In a shutter-inducing story out of Florida, the federal government is mulling a lawsuit against a Florida nursing home…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — More Details Emerge on Nursing Home Legislation’s Bad Bargain

Last year, we spent some time discussing the haggling back and forth in the Illinois General Assembly about what to do about a provision in the Nursing Home Care Act that mandated increased staffing levels for skilled nursing personnel, but held off setting the threshold levels for a later date. Last spring, there was much…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Illinois Company to Pay Portion of Settlement in New York Nursing Home Lawsuit

As recently reported, a county-run New York nursing home has agreed, along with several other companies, to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of a 90 year-old nun that died after a 200 pound dresser fell on top of her. As the article explains in detail, the nun, who was a resident in the…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Nursing Home Management Company Added to Governor’s Project to Control Healthcare Spending on Medicaid Recipients

Medicare and Medicaid funding (or potential lack thereof) has been one of the more prominent topics this election season on both national and local levels. In Illinois, and many other states, advocates on behalf of nursing homes and management companies have cited to dwindling Medicare and Medicaid funding as justification for their inability (or perhaps…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Liability for Owners and Operators

As the recent news stories popping up around the state have made clear, the way in which nursing homes are customarily owned and operated has become an extremely contentious topic. We’ve discussed the way that nursing homes often set up different legal “entities” that shuffle around ownership of the physical building, while others, for instance,…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Public Opinion puts Chicago Speed Camera Bill on the Ropes (and Why it Matters)

In the past we’ve discussed proposed auto safety measures, such as Chicago’s proposed speeding camera bill, which would post cameras in designated “safety zones,” track speeding cars and issue automated tickets similar to those by red light cameras. An earlier report, however, indicates that this particular proposal may wind up dying on the vine for one…