The Pokémon Go craze has seen thousands of gamers hit the streets all across the nation. But can this augmented reality phone app actually cause harm? Apparently it can. There have already been a number of cases in the U.S. where Pokemon fans have been playing the game while driving, leading to accidents and injury.
Read More About Chicago Area Pokémon Go Gamers and Car AccidentsThe mother of a Logan Square gunshot victim is suing a Chicago-area hospital and an emergency room nurse that works there claiming that the ER nurse shared inappropriate information on Twitter when the victim was brought in to the hospital for treatment. Some of the content tweeted included pictures of the room where medical personnel...
Read More About ER Nurse Tweets Bloody PhotosIn Chicago, a federal jury decided in favor of a woman recently. They found that two doctors from Illinois botched her gastric bypass surgery which left her brain damaged. The jury awarded the woman $9.4 million dollars, and found that the two Chicago-area doctors were guilty of negligence. The hospital where the surgery was performed...
Read More About $14.4 Million Dollars Awarded in Federal Medical Malpractice LawsuitA boy and his mother were awarded a $53 million verdict by a jury in Cook County in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against The University of Chicago Hospital. This verdict is the largest of its kind in Cook County. The boy, born with a brain injury, will receive the award which includes a large...
Read More About $53 Million Dollar Medical Malpractice Verdict for Baby Brain DamageThe plaintiff, Lorraine Patullo-Banks, was walking from the Park Ridge Train Station in February 2008. As she traveled on the sidewalk near the intersection of Touhy Ave and 3rd Street, she encountered an obstruction of snow and ice that had accumulated, resulting from the city snow plow that had cleared the street. The plaintiff chose...
Read More About Park Ridge Sued For Negligence In Pedestrian Injury CaseWhat are Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs)? A large motor vehicle for the transportation of people or property and either having 2 axles and exceeding a certain gross total weight or registered gross weight or having 3 or more axles. Commercial motor vehicles are a critical part of the state economy, as they transport large quantities...
Read More About FAQs About Illinois Truck AccidentsEach year, millions of drivers traverse America’s roadways. Unfortunately, more than 30,000 of these individuals lose their lives in tragic and preventable accidents. Many of these vehicular accidents involve trucks, such as tractor trailers and semi-trucks. One of the leading causes of truck accidents is driver fatigue. Truck drivers who are required to make long...
Read More About Federal Laws About Fatigued Truck DriversWhile working construction on a bridge along the I-90 highway in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, a worker was recently killed and three others were injured. The worker killed was a forty-eight year old man from Berwyn, who had a wife and four children. Federal investigators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)...
Read More About Construction Worker Killed On-The-Job in Chicago SuburbsThe family of a child left injured after a surgery has agreed to a $30 million settlement from the doctor and the hospital. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Court, detailed that the six-year-old boy suffered from brain damage and cerebral palsy due to a surgery at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center in 2011. This...
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