Blogs
Trial Location: An Important Factor in a Lawsuit
A “jury of one’s peers” as the Constitution provides, does not mean all jurors receive the same evidence in the same way.
Can Repetitive Trauma Result in a Successful Workers’ Compensation Claim?
Answer: “Yes”.
Personal Injury Legal Advice: Which Facts Wins the Case?
Short answer: those “facts” which the jury believes. Some evidence has so tenuous a relationship to objective reality that you might think to yourself that one side or another “has to win” its case. Not so.
Why Personal Injury Attorneys Reject Cases
From the initial client contact to the end of a case, personal injury lawyers continuously reassess 2 factors:
Bicycle-car accidents
As an “approved” attorney on the Active Transportation Alliance’s (“ATA”) referral list, I get phone calls all the time from people who were involved in “minor” bicycle vs. car accidents asking me what they should do.
Stat
A “stat” order means that the medical test ordered by your doctor- eg. an MRI, complete blood count, angiogram- should occur immediately. It also means your doctor should learn the results of the test as soon as they’re available. A “stat” order suggests a possible emergency condition, one where treatment must immediately be undertaken.
Independent Contractor or Employee?
Even though you may have been paid in cash by the hour to perform maintenance, carpentry, home repair--whatever your trade may be--you may very well have the right to file a Workers Compensation claim if you get hurt at work.
"Independent" Medical Exams of Illinois Workmans Comp Suits
The Illinois Workers Compensation Act (820 ILCS 305, et. seq.) allows an employer to demand an “independent medical exam” of an employee claiming to be injured. The purpose of the exam is to protect the employer by making sure the employee is really injured, needs time off or needs additional medical treatment.
Train Wreck
The Amtrak train crash in Nevada on June 24, 2011 generated a lot of national attention. This was the crash where six people were killed and many more seriously injured when a semi tractor-trailer going over 70 mph slammed into an Amtrak train going close to 80 mph in an open stretch of desert just east of Reno obliterating several cars of the train and causing them to burst into flames.
Horrible Bed Sores at Nursing Home
Lipkin & Higgins is involve in nursing home litigation and some of it isn't pretty.
We represent a man who spent his lifetime suffering from an inability to speak, hear and work due to childhood meningitis. As he aged, he became debilitated to a point where he could no longer get himself to the kitchen table, the toilet or to the shower. Grocery shopping and doing laundry were out of the question. He admitted himself into a nursing home.
