Month: October 2015

Was the banana peel yellow or brown? That’s the first question I ask a new client who has been injured in a slip and fall case. Most people just laugh, but as strange as it sounds, it’s one of the best metaphors you can use to explain to a client the basics of...

You get into a car accident on your lunch break while driving to the local eatery, or while driving across town to drop off a report for work.  Many people work eight hours a day, five days a week.  That’s forty hours a week that a car accident can happen while you...

Under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, an injured employee has a right to seek medical treatment for a condition related to a workplace injury, at the employer’s expense. The Act has a “Two Doctor” Rule, allowing the injured employee to select two doctors with...

Anyone that has spent a winter in Illinois will tell you, Illinois has some of the harshest winters around.  Illinois often experiences long periods of below freezing temperatures, and significant snow and ice accumulation.  Slip and falls due to snow and ice...

Under common law, a civil action for a wrongful death did not exist.  In response, Illinois enacted the Wrongful Death Act, thus allowing the survivors, i.e. spouse and/ or next of kin, a means to bring an action for damages based upon the wrongful act, neglect, or...