April 26, 2010UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Fifteen men filed a lawsuit Wednesday charging the Boy Scouts allowed a Chicago teacher to serve as a leader while he was molesting children. The plaintiffs say they were in Thomas Hacker’s troop in Oak Lawn, Ill.,...
Read More April 18, 2010A Georgia woman currently in graduate school is in critical condition fighting a rare flesh-eating infection that she contracted after cutting her leg in a zip-line accident. The accident happened when the zip-line snapped, plunging the woman into the rocky...
Read More April 11, 2010As a personal injury lawyer in Chicago, I am both saddened and disappointed in the West Virginia Mine explosion that caused 25 needless deaths. Quickly after the explosion, news surfaced that the Massey Energy coal mine had a less than...
Read More April 11, 2010Defective Takata airbags, which caused one of the biggest automotive recalls in history, were linked to 10 deaths and more than 100 injuries. Exploding on impact, the defective airbags sent metal shrapnel flying throughout the car and at its occupants....
Read More April 4, 2010Federal health experts are now saying that additional restrictions are needed” to protect teenagers from the cancer risks of tanning beds, including a potential ban for people under 18. ” (Gaithersburg, MD, AP, 3/25). As a personal injury and products...
Read More March 21, 2010As a products liability and personal injury attorney in Chicago, I urge parents to pay attention to recalls affecting products they may be using for their children and replace the recalled products as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary injuries....
Read More March 7, 2010The Food and Drug Administration is “cracking down on baby food manufacturers and other companies for misleading nutrition labeling on their products, the beginning of a larger effort to set stricter standards for the labels” (M. Jalonick, AP Washington, 3/5)....
Read More February 28, 2010The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has reported more than 285,000 hip replacements are performed each year in the U.S. Stryker, a medical device manufacturer, marketed metal-on-metal artificial hips as having the capability to last longer in patients and provide...
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