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• Illinois Medical Malpractice Caps Soon To Be Challenged

  Jamie G. Goldstein | September 04, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Illinois passed medical malpractice legislation two years ago that limited the amount a person could recover for pain and suffering in a medical malpractice lawsuit. There have been no challenges to date because only cases filed since the change would be affected and most of these lawsuits have not gone to trial, but this is about to change. A lawsuit filed in Cook County by Jeffrey Goldberg...

• Family Sues Car Manufacturer for Defective Tire Resulting in Death

  Jamie G. Goldstein | October 21, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The family of an 18 year old man filed a lawsuit against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company after the man was killed when a tire blew out of the vehicle he was a passenger in and caused the vehicle to...

• Amtrak-Freight Train Collision in Chicago Being Investigated

  Jenny Albano | December 02, 2007 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of an Amtrak train and a freight train collision that injured dozens of people on Friday, November 30 in the south side of Chicago. The investigators are trying to figure out how both trains ended up on the same track at the same time.Out of the 187 passengers on the Amtrak train, 71 were sent to hospitals in the area. When...

• Family Files Lawsuit After Summer Camp Drowning

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 20, 2007 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The Gottsman family has filed a lawsuit against the summer camp where their son Yoni drowned in 2005. Yoni Gottsman was only four years old when he drowned at the Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club. He was attending summer camp in August 2005 when it is alleged that he was unsupervised at the club's pool. A surveillance video reveals Yoni was found floating face down in the water with no...

• Chicago Car Crash Injures 5

  Jamie G. Goldstein | October 20, 2008 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Two vehicles collided Saturday in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. The collision between the Cadillac and mini-van was severe enough to cause the mini-van to roll over. The victims...

• Truck Kills Two At Chinatown CTA Stop, Injures Others

  Jamie G. Goldstein | April 29, 2008 4:56 PM | 1 CommentChicago, IL

  Friday evening a truck drove into the CTA red line stop at Cermak-Chinatown. Two women, Elosia Guerrero 47 and Delisia Brown, 18 were killed at the scene of the collision. Another 21 people,...

• Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal Prompts Lawmakers to Act

  Jamie G. Goldstein | July 15, 2009 4:26 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  As the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal grows bigger, lawmakers are moving to enact tougher regulations to ensure buried family members bodies are properly taken care of and respected. The Illinois Senate...

• Northwestern Doctor Exposes Patients and Visitors to TB

  Jamie G. Goldstein | April 21, 2009 6:44 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Over the past ten months, a doctor at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago has potentially exposed hundreds of patients and visitors, including infants and children to tuberculosis or TB. The...

• Latest Toy Recall Linked To Date Rape Drug

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 08, 2007 9:28 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The latest toy recall was announced today. A very popular toy, Aqua Dots, was recalled after it was found that the chemical in the toy when ingested turns into the date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate or ghb. There have been reports of children ingesting parts from the toy and becoming lethargic, vomiting and even lapsing into a coma. If ingested, the toy can also cause seizures or...

• Chicago Area Man Killed by Freight Train

  Jamie G. Goldstein | August 21, 2007 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Thomas Bujnowski was only 47 years old when he died Friday morning. Bujnowski's body was found near the train tracks at Route 14 and Lincoln Street in Fox River Grove, Illinois. It is believed Bujnowski was hit by a Union Pacific freight train. His death has been ruled an accident but there is an ongoing investigation. Police hope to find additional answers to how Thomas Bujnowski was killed...