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Personal Injury Law

Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog

A legal blog that covers Illinois personal injury and accident topics including car accidents, medical malpractice, and nursing home abuse. Published by Injury Lawyers Levin & Perconti.

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:59:47

Levin & Perconti tops the list of 2008 Super Injury Lawyers

Posted on January 18, 2008
Levin and Perconti has been honored in Chicago Magazine's 2008 Illinois Super Lawyers Edition. Both John Perconti and Steve Levin were named Super Lawyers as Plaintiff's Personal Injury Lawyers. The pair have been honored for the last four years as two of Chicago's best Injury Lawyers.

$110 million personal injury lawsuit filed after human tissue transplant surgery

Posted on January 16, 2008
Attorneys recently filed a $110 million personal injury lawsuit on behalf of an Illinois farm worker injured by a meniscal transplant surgery. CryoLife Inc., a major corporation that supplies human tissue for transplants, is being accused of providing contaminated cadaver material for the operation...

$110 million Illinois personal injury lawsuit filed after human tissue transplant surgery

Posted on January 16, 2008
Personal injury attorneys recently filed a $110 million personal injury lawsuit on behalf of an Illinois farm worker injured by a meniscal transplant surgery. CryoLife Inc., a major corporation that supplies human tissue for transplants, is being accused of providing contaminated cadaver material for the operation...

Lawsuits question who is to blame for fatal train accident

Posted on January 15, 2008
Four teens were injured and one killed when a train crashed into their vehicle in 2006. Since then, investigations of the train accident have led to lawsuits filed by and against many different parties. The teens and their families are suing the city in which the accident happened and the company that owned the train and the tracks under the allegations that the tracks were unsafe...

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Slip and fall accidents cause 16,000 deaths each year, many instances involving premises liability

Posted on January 15, 2008
Slip and fall accidents kill over 16,000 Americans each year, 11,000 of which are elderly people 75-years and older. Falls involving elderly people are much more dangerous. There are many ways to minimize the risks of serious slips and falls. Individuals must consider the materials and textures of their shoe bottoms as well as pedestrian walking gait...

Illinois worst Midwest state in monitoring construction sites and construction accidents

Posted on January 14, 2008
Accidents at construction sites are dangerous and can often be fatal. The Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) is designed to inspect construction sites in order to ensure safety for employees and reduce construction site injuries...

Drunk driver kills elderly Brookfield, Illinois couple in car accident; daughter settles lawsuit for $500,000

Posted on January 11, 2008
In February 2007, an elderly couple from Brookfield, Illinois was struck by a drunk driver while crossing the street. The woman was killed at the time of the pedestrian accident and her husband died days later from injuries sustained in the crash. The couple's daughter sued the driver in a civil wrongful death lawsuit which recently settled for $500,000...

Mother from Fairview Heights, Illinois sues herself for son's head injuries in automobile accident

Posted on January 10, 2008
A woman from Fairview Heights, Illinois collided with a Madison County ambulance in a 2005 automobile accident during which her one-month-old son sustained permanent head injuries. The woman has filed a lawsuit in which she is listed as a plaintiff acting on behalf of her infant son as well as an individual plaintiff...

Lawsuit brought against three parties by family of a mand killed in bus accident

Posted on January 09, 2008
The family of a man killed in a bus accident involving a collision with a pickup truck is suing the driver of the bus, along with the operator and owner. The lawsuit alleges that the three defendants were negligent. The incident was blamed on driver fatigue; the bus veered off the road, colliding with the truck...

Lawsuit brought against three parties by family of a man killed in bus accident

Posted on January 09, 2008
The family of a man killed in a bus accident involving a collision with a pickup truck is suing the driver of the bus, along with the operator and owner. The personal injury attorney filed a lawsuit alleging that the three defendants were negligent. The incident was blamed on driver fatigue; the bus veered off the road, colliding with the truck...

HSN faces product liability charges; failed to report serious injuries

Posted on January 08, 2008
The Home Shopping Network (HSN) ignored allegations of product liability when burn injuries resulted from the sale of pressure cookers on the channel. The cable shopping network, received at least 25 reports of a malfunctioning pressure cooker sold on the channel beginning in 2001...

Anemia drugs may have dangerous side effects

Posted on January 08, 2008
Recently, news regarding anemia drugs such as Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit has caused concern among patients and their families. Patients have learned that the drugs could increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes as well as increasing the progression rate of tumors in certain cancers...

Southern Illinois automobile accident lead to $10 million wrongful death ruling

Posted on January 06, 2008
The wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a 15-year-old in Southern Illinois has resulted in a $10 million ruling in Saline County Circuit Court. The teen was killed in an automobile accident after the car he was in was struck by a farm truck...

Annual tort reform report falls flat

Posted on January 05, 2008
The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) puts out an annual report. In 2007, the American Tort Reform Association's (ATRA) report called "Judicial Hellholes" cost $1.5 million to produce and distribute. However, no more than 10 newspapers referenced the report and those that did pointed out the report's flaws...

The Doctors' Apology

Posted on January 02, 2008
Recently a colleague referred a case to me involving blatant medical negligence. The referring attorney explained the series of events involving a misdiagnosis, a failure to diagnose, and a relatively simple procedure essentially done backwards causing material to be pumped out of the patient?s stomach of pumped into the patient?s stomach...

The Doctors' Apology - an Illinois lawyer's perspective

$2.5 million awarded in a nursing home wrongful death lawsuit

Posted on December 21, 2007
One of the highest awards in Connecticut history was recently awarded to the family of a nursing home resident who died ten days after choking at the facility. The jury verdict in the wrongful death lawsuit amounted to $2.5 million. The victim, age 93, was supposed to be on a soft food diet; however, a nursing home employee gave him regular food...

Illinois wrongful death lawsuit filed against nursing home

Posted on December 19, 2007
An Illinois wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against an Illinois nursing home. The lawsuit, filed by the victim?s daughter, alleges that the resident entered the nursing home for rehabilitation and soon thereafter died of acute toxicity from oxycodone and opiates...

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against nursing home in resident?s death from acute dehydration

Posted on December 18, 2007
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed over the death of a nursing home resident. The complaint alleges that the nursing home did not provide enough food or drink for the resident, which led to the resident?s acute dehydration. The victim died shortly thereafter...

Cook County hospitals face wrongful death lawsuits over faulty mammograms

Posted on December 16, 2007
Cook County medical clinics, including Stroger Hospital, face Illinois wrongful death lawsuits over faulty mammograms. One of the lawsuits was recently filed on behalf of a woman who passed away from breast cancer. The Illinois wrongful death lawsuit claims that the Chicago Clinic should have diagnosed the cancer sooner and the death could have been prevented...

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against the makers of Avandia

Posted on December 15, 2007
A wrongful death lawsuit was filed against GSK, the maker of Avandia, accusing GSK of causing the wrongful death of a San Diego nurse due to its negligence. The wrongful death lawsuit alleges that the victim over the course of one year was hospitalized three different times for heart problems, classified as myocardial ischemic events and ultimately suffered a fatal stroke, caused by the Avandia she was taking for her type 2 diabetes...

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