Personal Injury News Blog

Paralysis, the inability to move muscles, is caused by injury or disease affecting the motor neurons, or nerves that send impulses to muscles. There are two kinds of motor neurons: upper and lower. The upper motor neurons send impulses from the brain to the lower motor neurons. The lower motor neurons send the impulses on [...]

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An Egyptian medical official says six Russian tourists died in a bus accident near a resort town in the Sinai peninsula.
Chief of emergency services of south Sinai, Ibrahim Ali, says five Russian men and one woman died when the bus flipped over late Monday night. There were 15 other foreigners of various nationalities wounded as [...]

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Rating systems help people decide which restaurants to go to or hotels to stay at. So why not something similar from the federal government for the nation’s 16,000 nursing homes?
Such a simple rating for so complex a task as caring for the elderly is leading to much anxiety in the nursing home industry. Home operators [...]

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Federal safety officials say auto fatalities dropped almost 10 percent in 2008 through October.
If the trend holds up for the last two months of the year, highway deaths could reach their lowest level since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says there were 31,110 auto fatalities in the first [...]

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When the Pinnick family of Joliet decided to take the case of their daughter’s death in a gruesome car crash to a “big league” law firm, they thought Corboy & Demetrio was a reasonable choice.
Corboy & Demetrio is “a premier national law firm (which) represents individuals and their families in serious personal injury and wrongful [...]

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Efforts to bring sanity to the civil justice system in Illinois are under serious attack. In 2005, the Illinois legislature enacted a progressive law aimed at creating a balance in medical malpractice claims. The law created a cap ($500,000 against a physician and $1 million against a hospital) on pain and suffering or non-economic damages.
But [...]

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A personal injury suit involving an Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) employee has settled for an undisclosed amount.
The settlement averts a Dec. 8 jury trial in Madison County.
Troy Turner filed the suit in August 2007 alleging he sustained “diverse and numerous injuries” on Oct. 18, 2005, when Jeongyun Huh collided with the rear of his [...]

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The bike chain on my child’s dirt bike stripped while riding, causing him to crash head-on into the ground. Is the manufacturer of the bike or the store where we bought the bike liable for damages?
Both the manufacturer and the seller of the bike may be liable for your child’s injuries. When a consumer product [...]

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Reasons for judgment were released today dealing with a fee dispute between a personal injury plaintiff and his lawfirm.
The Plaintiff was involved in a serious motor vehicle collision in 1995.  The Plaintiff hired a lawyer and ultimately a $860,000 settlement was reached.

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A sport utility vehicle has struck and injured several people - including at least two children - outside a suburban Los Angeles elementary school. One is listed as critically injured.
Los Angeles County fire Inspector Sam Padilla (puh-DEE’-uh) says firefighters have been called to Maple Hill Elementary School in the town of Diamond Bar, east of [...]

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