Personal Injury
The Personal Injury Attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins were contacted by A.H., a 76 year old man who tripped and fell on a broken curb/sidewalk at a suburban movie theater. A.H. had parked his car in the lot in front of the theater and was walking to the ticket window when he tripped.
The car accident attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins were contacted by a 48 year old man with the following case:
Many towns and cities have ordinances prohibiting people from riding their bicycles on sidewalks. Instead, bicycle riders are supposed to ride on the streets, and “share the road” with the regular traffic. It depends on whether there are signs in the area designating that the road is a “bike path” if so, then a bicyclist should not be riding on a sidewalk.
The personal injury attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins were contacted by E. B. with the following case: during Memorial Day Weekend of 2008, E.B. was walking on the back porch deck of a friend’s house headed towards the steps leading to the back yard. Her friend owned a short, muscular, 60-pound pit bull that had been described like a “bowling ball with legs”. As she reached the top step and prepared to step down, the pit bull charged out the back door of the house, raced across the deck and ran directly into E.B.
The personal injury attorneys at Lipkin & Higgins recently represented a 50-year-old deliveryman, L. N., who was making a delivery through an alley into the back door of a Chinese Restaurant in Chicago. L.N.
You’re in a store, you slip and fall and break your ankle. You have surgery. While recuperating, you replay the accident over many times in your mind. You begin to wonder, is the store owner somehow responsible for my fall? Should I contact a lawyer to see if I have a case? The legal doctrine to which your case applies is known as “Premises Liability”.
Unfortunately, crime is everywhere. And when a crime occurs on a rental property, it raises some unique issues for landlords and tenants. Generally, under Illinois Law, a landlord has no duty to protect a tenant from the criminal actions of third parties (i.e. strangers.) The landlord is responsible for controlling his building and the condition of it, not the conduct of strangers and the public at large.
On a hot summer morning in August 2007, our client was riding her bicycle to work going southbound on Halsted. When she passed the intersection of Chicago Avenue, she sensed the presence of a CTA bus coming up from behind her in her left-side peripheral vision. The next thing she knew, the bus was “squeezing” her off the road as it was merging to its right to pull into a bus stop. The right side of the bus clipped our client’s left handlebar, which caused her to fly forward, over her handlebars and slam down onto the roadway. She ended up fracturing
“What is the value of my case?” is the question we are frequently asked when meeting a client for the first time. The short answer is “it depends.” We'll focus only on that question as it relates to the difference between a workers compensation and personal injury case.
