In a very bizarre and tragic story out of California 2 nursing home residents have died and 4 others have been hospitalized from alleged food poisoning after a caregiver placed what turned out to be poisonous wild mushrooms into a soup that was then served to residents. As the article suggests, an initial investigation into the situation has concluded that no foul play was involved and that the caregiver didn't know Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Nursing Home Workers Stage Candlelight Vigil in Protest of Nursing Home Conditions
As we've recently discussed, there seems to be a growing dissent amongst the ranks of nursing home employees about the conditions in many local nursing homes, and many groups of nurses, caretakers, and other employees have begun to vent their frustrations with the very facilities they work for (and the ownership groups behind them) in increasingly public displays. This has included several of the visible protests Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident and Class Action Law — Toyota Settlement Has Consumers Asking Questions
Yesterday, we discussed early reports of the landmark proposed settlement of a class action brought against Toyota stemming from the widely-reported 2010 alleged defect that caused vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate. The problem with the early reports, however, is that some of them painted the story with too broad of strokes, and now, as subsequent articles suggest, many Toyota owners aren't quite sure what this Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Auto Accident and Class Action Law — Toyota Agrees to “Landmark” Settlement Relating to Acceleration Cases
As multiple news outlets are reporting, Toyota has agreed, in principal, to settle a class action lawsuit in California stemming from the highly-publicized dispute that arose in early 2010 after a number of complaints were logged that the auto giant's vehicles were accelerating unintendedly. It should be noted that there have been several different "groups" of litigation that have arisen from this dispute and, as the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law – Watchdog Agency Warns Families of Nursing Home Patients to Look Out for Sepsis
We’ve spent a good deal of time discussing the persistent problem of nursing home under-staffing and the wide range of effects it has on all aspects of a nursing home. Decreased attentiveness, and under-qualified (and over-worked) staffing has a pretty straightforward effect on the health and safety of residents. Now even the nursing home employees themselves are starting to raise their voices for patients’ Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Law — Home Healthcare Industry Screening Process Highlights Gap In Nursing Home Screening
As we've discussed several times recently, the problem with training nursing home caregivers and keeping up with proper staffing requirements has been one of the most prominent topics in the ongoing debate about the care and services your loved ones receive in nursing homes. These topics come to mind when reading a recentpress release from a company that focuses on background screening of home healthcare Read More
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 that those with a body mass index of 35 or greater (fitting the Read More
Chicago Trial Attorney: Personal Injury & Business Litigation: Commercial Litigation Issues — Fraud and Heightened Pleading Requirements
As we've previously discussed, fraud is one of the most contentious causes of action that arises in business litigation. What many aggrieved parties don't understand when they first seek out an attorney is that it is so difficult to even plead a proper complaint for fraud that a good deal of cases never even make it off the ground and get past the initial pleadings stage. As a matter of background, filing a complaint Read More
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 their existing red light cameras. While there are certainly a number of reasons that this, and other, Read More
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 a "new" development, prior to January 1st of this year, passengers in the back seats of cars were not required Read More
