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• Car Accident on Chicago's West Side

  Jamie G. Goldstein | April 03, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Sunday evening a car was traveling on Homan Avenue on the West Side of Chicago when it was involved in a motor vehicle accident. Initial reports indicate that the car was hit head on by another car that had crossed into oncoming traffic. The car that left its lane was apparently traveling between 80-100 miles per hour.Four of the people in the car were very seriously injured. Two of them were...

• The Truth About Medical Malpractice Claims

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 27, 2007 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Complaints continue to flow from doctors about out of control insurance premiums for medical malpractice insurance. The doctors continue to blame the cost of their premiums on frivolous lawsuits and outrageous awards. The facts though tell a different story. In Illinois most medical malpractice lawsuits never go to trial, which means they are settling for a reasonable, agreed upon amount...

• Fire Truck Collides With School Bus on Chicago's South Side

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 23, 2007 10:11 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A fire truck was found turned over on its side this morning and looked to have possibly collided with a school bus. The accident occurred on Chicago's South Side near 59th Street and Princeton Avenue. There were injuries to some of the firefighters on the fire truck and to the bus driver, but luckily there were no children on the bus at the time of the accident.The injured were taken to local...

• Five Year Old Dies of Suspicious Head Trauma

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 16, 2007 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  As previously reported, a five year old girl from the Maine Township area was removed from her home Tuesday evening after police found her suffering from serious head trauma. The girl has since died from her injuries, but the investigation is ongoing as to what caused her head trauma.The child was with her parents and six other children when she was removed from her home Tuesday evening. The...

• Leg Amputated Due To Nursing Home Neglect

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 12, 2007 3:30 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A woman that was being cared for in a nursing home in Boston was forced to have her foot amputated after the nursing home failed to properly care for her. The woman had an infection in her foot that was caused by the nursing home's failure to attend to a large gaping wound. The wound was so big that the woman's ankle bone and ligaments were exposed.The cause of the wound is believed to be from...

• Four Die In Helicopter Crash

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 11, 2007 5:15 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Four people were killed Thursday afternoon while on a helicopter tour in Hawaii. The helicopter reported problems only two miles after it had taken off. The helicopter crash is one of many that have occurred in Hawaii and in Alaska and are the reason for a recent push on new helicopter safety regulations.The National Transportation Safety Board issued a request for tougher regulations on tour...

• Special Health Courts for Medical Malpractice Cases?

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 08, 2007 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  The latest new tactic in tort reform is coming out of Maryland with the help of Robert Wood Johnson. Johnson is funding the tort reform group Common Good with $1 million to allow them to try and establish "Health" courts. These courts would be used to only hear medical malpractice cases and instead of a jury the case would be heard by an expert judge. Again, let's try and look at the real...

• A New Way to Avoid a Medical Malpractice Suit?

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 07, 2007 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  In Florida, doctors are unhappy with the high malpractice premiums they are paying. Florida legislature passed caps on damages four years ago, but not surprisingly, the premiums are still high. Again, doctors are looking to the wrong answers on how to decrease their premiums. But it appears now that they may have a new idea, probably not a good one, but still a new one.Some doctors in Florida...

• $4.1 Million Verdict Against Nursing Home

  Jamie G. Goldstein | February 26, 2007 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  A jury awarded a family $4.1 million and found against a Tennessee nursing home that was caring for the patient. The lawsuit alleged that the nursing home was understaffed, which resulted in the man being improperly attended to and as a result he suffered from bedsores, an undiagnosed hip fracture and other medical problems.A proposed law in Tennessee, however, would severely limit the award. ...

• Child and Grandmother Hit by Car and Killed

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 21, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  It was originally reported that the only fatality to this Chicago car accident was that of a young child. It is now being reported that not only did a child tragically die after being struck by a car as she was entering a crosswalk, but her grandmother has also died. Police are also now reporting that the driver of the car was not intoxicated, however, he did try to flee the scene on foot but...