NBC 5 NEWS A man with a hip implant who made national news for climbing the stairs of the Willis Tower is facing another health crisis — a defective artificial hip. Mark Stephan wasn’t even expected to walk again after...
Read MoreUNITED 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 MoreA 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 MoreAs 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 MoreDefective 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 MoreFederal 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 MoreAs 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 MoreThe 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)....
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