With the rash of recalls in recent years: eggs, peanut butter, even spinach, it is difficult to feel confident in our nation’s food supply. Our top Chicago injury attorneys understand that under the current food safety regime, there is good reason to be nervous. And although lawsuits are a useful and valid tool after an… Read More
Defensive Cycling Can Prevent Accidents With Negligent Drivers
Experts believe that the interactions between cars and bicycles are continually improving in the Chicago area. This is partly due to the construction of many new bike lanes around the city. It is also due to the fact that most Chicago bicyclists are also motorists, and vice versa. This gives each an understanding of the… Read More
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Make Intersections Safer
Cook County recently announced plans to install twenty new red-light cameras throughout the Chicago suburbs, in what the County Board describes as a one-year pilot program. The suburbs targeted to receive these new cameras, however, are protesting and considering legal action. Our Chicago car accident lawyers believe this chain of events engenders many questions: Why… Read More
Personal Injury Litigation Needed to Force Automobile Safety
Customers and citizens throughout the United States are in an uproar over the latest revelations about the abhorrent conduct of Toyota motor company. First, we learned that Toyota waited at least four months, after learning that its accelerators could become stuck, before informing U.S. authorities. Then, it came to light that Toyota waited at least… Read More
Medical Malpractice Tort Reform: Setting the Record Straight
Medical malpractice lawsuits enable patients, and their families, who have been suffered significant, permanent injuries or death as a result of preventable medical errors, to receive compensation. In 2008, more than 80 percent of malpractice payments went to victims who sustained quadriplegia, brain damage or death. Passen & Powell’s top-rated Chicago medical malpractice lawyers are… Read More
Hospitals Increasingly Fail to Report Medical Malpractice to National Data Bank
The Chicago medical malpractice attorneys at Passen & Powell understand that hospitals work hard to protect their reputation in their community and their bottom lines. However, when that effort comes at the expense of the public health and safety of patients, something is wrong. Twenty-four years ago, Congress became concerned that unethical or substandard doctors… Read More
“Fast Hug” Mnemonic Aims to Avoid Medical Malpractice in Intensive Care
While medical malpractice is always shocking, failing to meet a patient’s basic needs, such as feeding, sedation, and pain relief, is incomprehensible. Medical malpractice is also particularly troubling when in occurs in the intensive care unit (or ICU), where patients are at their most vulnerable and are often unable to assert themselves. In a continuing… Read More
New Guidelines for Treatment of Children with Cerebral Palsy
Passen & Powell’s premier Chicago personal injury lawyers represent individuals and families of those inflicted with cerebral palsy — often in the context of medical malpractice or birth injury negligence. More than 100,000 babies each year in this country will develop cerebral palsy, a complex neurologic disorder that affects body movement and posture. Our representation… Read More
On Brain Injury Issues, NFL Puts its Money Where its Mouthguard Isn’t
The Chicago personal injury attorneys of Passen & Powell were extremely heartened to see the news last Tuesday of the NFL’s generous donation to brain injury research. The NFL recently announced a $1 million donation to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at the Boston University School of Medicine. Encephalopathy, which includes traumatic… Read More
No ‘Relation Back’ in Personal Injury Complaint Adding Employer Defendant
People sometimes wonder why it is important to contact an experienced personal injury lawyer as soon as possible if you suspect an injury was caused by the carelessness or recklessness of another. One important reason is to identify all possible defendants before the statute of limitations (the time in which a lawsuit must be filed)… Read More