Chicago “true” weather is back again and makes for very difficult driving conditions. Be careful! If someone has rear-ended you or slid into you and you believe they were not careful, contact us here immediately to assess the situation. We take calls and contact 24/7/365. And a reminder to all that not only in “good…

The headlines in newspapers and websites across the country are often filled with troubling and heartbreaking stories of what can happen when under-staffed and under-funded nursing homes let resident safety and dignity fall by the wayside. In a shutter-inducing story out of Florida, the federal government is mulling a lawsuit against a Florida nursing home…

As recently reported, a county-run New York nursing home has agreed, along with several other companies, to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of a 90 year-old nun that died after a 200 pound dresser fell on top of her. As the article explains in detail, the nun, who was a resident in the…

As the recent news stories popping up around the state have made clear, the way in which nursing homes are customarily owned and operated has become an extremely contentious topic. We’ve discussed the way that nursing homes often set up different legal “entities” that shuffle around ownership of the physical building, while others, for instance,…

New traffic safety laws went into effect last year that had lawmakers turning their focus to those proposals. Many of those proposed regulations were discussed at a meeting of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, which outlined the general direction that the legislature sought to take. While we previously reported on several of these,…