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March 17, 2017

How Arbitration Clauses Protect Abusers And Keep Victims Quiet

Sexual Harassment in the workplace is unequivocally common. So when it happens, the victim should seek justice in court. That is every citizen’s right according to the Seventh Amendment. However, countless employers include an “Arbitration Clause” in employee contracts. It’s...

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December 19, 2016

Eroding workers’ rights

The following letter to the editor by ITLA President Christopher T. Hurley appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business on December 5, 2016. Leave it to the Illinois Policy Institute to promote the fiction that the loss of manufacturing jobs has been...

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December 8, 2016

Beyond Court: Lawyer Helps Train ER Docs

By Emily Spectre, Daily North Shore When trial attorney Christopher Hurley successfully tried a case on a behalf of a family whose wife and mother had died from sustained hypoxia in a hospital emergency room, he could have stored the...

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April 30, 2016

A License to Kill: State Medical Boards and Their Role in Medical Malpractice

As trial lawyers one of our duties is to investigate hospitals when patients are neglected or abused, since our government has neither the resources nor the political will to do so. As described in a Chicago Tribunue investigation: The Illinois...

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April 23, 2016

Insurance Companies Denying and Delaying Justice for Victims While Reaping in Billions

Insurance companies spend billions of advertising dollars on television ads, radio commercials, and print advertising to convince you that they are trustworthy, that they will be there when you need them. Unfortunately, their marketing tactics are nothing short of deceptive;...

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April 15, 2016

Litigation and the Lies Tort Reformers Tell: Why Lawsuits Are Actually a Good Thing for America

For decades, Americans have been told that the sky is falling, that the economy is on the verge of crashing because of their frivolous claims against large corporations. But, like most carefully crafted lies, these claims are nothing more than...

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April 13, 2016

Lumber Liquidators Laminate Flooring Carries High Risk of Cancer, CDC Says

Although there are regulations and protections in place to protect Americans from dangerous products, many still slip through the cracks. One such example is the laminate flooring from Lumber Liquidators which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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April 4, 2016

The Civil Justice System’s Role in Concussion Prevention

Contact sports are exciting for both the athletes and the fans, but they are also violent and competitive sports that cause millions of concussion injuries per year. While this is known and understood by the medical community, fans, and even...

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