Category Archives: Automobile & Trucking Accidents

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Personal Injury and Trucking Accident Law — New Study Attempts to Link Obesity With Trucking Accidents

As a recent article in Science Now details a new study that is almost certain to stoke a good deal of controversy has put forth a new factor that researchers believe contributes to an increased likelihood of trucking accidents — obesity. The study followed 744 newly-licensed truck drivers and categorized them by height and weight. The results suggested…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Are Red Light Cameras Becoming a Thing of the Past?

With the rash of new laws and procedures that took place this year intended to improve safety for drivers on the road, it is interesting to keep in mind — and take some perspective on — some of the passing trends in automobile safety. Interestingly, the city of Naperville voted to let contracts expire on…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — New Laws in Effect Require All Passengers to Wear Seatbelts

This year has brought into effect a flurry of new laws passed the previous year, many of which are intended to affect the safety of drivers on the road. One such candidate is the requirement that all occupants of cars, trucks, and vans must wear seatbelts. While it may come as a surprise to many that this is…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Study Shows Interesting Data on Repeat Drunk Driving

This year has brought many interesting developments in technology easing its way into lawmakers’ attempts to increase safety on the roads — and the news, unfortunately, forcing their hand. With the rash of prominent stories regarding drunk driving accidents, wrong way driving accidents, and the like, no matter how much lawmakers try to curb the…

As various local news outlets have reported, an off-duty Chicago Police Officer was recently charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries and disorderly conduct for filing a false police report after a rather interesting turn of events stemming from allegations that the officer ran into a pedestrian on a bicycle and is alleged to have…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident and Personal Injury Law — A Brief Introduction to the Intersection between Personal Injury and Bankruptcy

One of the most discouraging things to encounter in personal injury law is where you endure a lengthy litigation process and even obtain a successful verdict at trial, only for the defendant to turn around and declare bankruptcy in an attempt to discharge your judgment and force you to walk away with nothing. In situations…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Personal Injury and Negligence Law — New Lawsuit Alleges Airline Worker “Dumped” Paralyzed War Veteran From Wheelchair

One of the oldest maxims in American civil litigation — a concept usually introduced on literally the first day of an aspiring law student’s first year tort class — is that a defendant takes a plaintiff as he or she finds them. This has otherwise come to be known as the “eggshell plaintiff rule,” where…

Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident Law — Another New Direction for Drunk Driving Offenses?

As we recently discussed, studies on the rates of repeat offenders in drunk driving incidents are leading many states to consider mandating interlock devices that, in theory, prevent drunk drivers from being able to operate their vehicles. Behind these reports, however, is the unfortunate admission that those inclined to make destructive decisions will do so…