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• Woman Neglected at Illinois Nursing Home

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 31, 2007 11:53 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  An 81 year old woman recently filed a lawsuit in Illinois claiming that she was neglected while she was staying at the Prairie Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Chicago Heights, Illinois. The woman alleges that the abuse and neglect she suffered from caused her bed sores and caused her to fall and hit her head.Some time after the fall occurred she may have sustained a second stroke. ...

• Stairway Collapse in Chicago Residence

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 30, 2007 11:30 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  A part of a second floor stairway collapsed while a man and his child were walking up the stairs of their home on Monday afternoon. The man was holding his child when he stepped on a concrete landing that collapsed.The concrete landing collapse caused the two to fall approximately ten to twelve feet. Luckily, the father and son had only minor injuries. Unfortunately, problems with building...

• Are Medical Malpractice Awards Really Out Of Control?

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 26, 2007 4:01 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Politicians and lobbyists are calling for tort reform and implementation of caps in medical malpractice cases because of skyrocketing malpractice insurance for doctors caused by outrageous awards. However, the truth is there is no crisis due to large awards. In fact over a 14 year period from 1991 - 2005, malpractice payments made as the result of judgments and settlements declined 15.4...

• MRSA Infections Increase, Hospitals Not Doing Enough

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 26, 2007 9:00 AM | 1 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  One of the top infections patients in hospitals die from each year is MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Stayphylococcus Aureus). Even though the infection is becoming more deadly because the bacteria is becoming more resistant to antibiotics, hospitals are not doing enough to combat the infection.MRSA has become resistant to antibiotics because of the overuse of antibiotic medications. The bacteria...

• Fight Over Medical Malpractice Caps in Illinois Heats Up

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 24, 2007 1:28 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  The fight over whether medical malpractice caps in Illinois are legal has recently heated up as Illinois doctors have brought Theodore Olson aboard. Olson was the solicitor general of the United States from 2001 - 2004. The medical malpractice caps in Illinois limit the amount a person can recover in a lawsuit for non-economic damages. The law was passed in 2005. There have been no cases to...

• Hit and Run Kills Pedestrian in Chicago(2)

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 22, 2007 10:45 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A man walking across the street in Forest Park was the victim of a hit and run. The man was crossing the street Sunday evening and was hit by a car that fled the scene. The man was brought to the hospital but did not survive.Another tragedy in the Chicagoland area where a car hit a pedestrian walking across the street. Just last week there were three pedestrians hit, two were killed, when...

• Child and Grandmother Hit by Car and Killed

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 21, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  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...

• Truck Accident Kills Woman on Chicago Expressway

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 19, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents

  A woman was killed when her car was coming off the entrance ramp on the Edens expressway and was struck by a semi-truck. The accident happend near the Foster Avenue exit in the morning of January 17, 2007. The woman was in her 30s and was taken to Stein Institute. She was pronounced dead approximately four hours after the accident occurred.There has been no information as to who was at fault...

• Car Accident - One Child Killed

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 18, 2007 1:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A car struck three people and another car on January 17, 2007 in the South Side's Back of the Yards neighborhood. The three people that were struck appeared to be entering a crosswalk when they were hit by the offending car.The car hit two children and one elderly woman and then struck another car. One child was killed and another was reported in very serious condition. The drive of the...

• Nursing Home Death Oak Lawn Illinois

  Jamie G. Goldstein | January 09, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

  Neglect possibly plays a role in a recent nursing home death in Oak Law, Illinois. This is not the first incident that has arisen at the Regal Health and Rehabilitation Center.In 2004 Regal Health was fined $10,000 for its failure to report that a resident was sexually abused by a nurse's aide. That aide later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison.In this current incident an...