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• Chicago Bicycle Accident Highlights Importance of City Bike Safety

  Kristina Labanauskas | June 26, 2008 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  On any given day, you will see dozens of bicyclists navigating through the busy City streets. Yet, statistics show that biking during the summer in urban traffic can be downright deadly. In fact,...

• Fatal scaffolding collapse

  Barry Doyle | June 14, 2007 7:30 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Two Indiana construction workers fell 40 feet to the ground when the scaffold they were working on collapsed. The scaffold had a loose pin holding in one of the members of the scaffold and when the workers went to repair the scaffold, their weight caused the scaffold to collapse.One worker survived the fall suffering chest and head injuries; the other workers suffered fatal injuries.Federal...

• Rockord Canadian National train derailment kills one, injures three

  Barry Doyle | June 20, 2009 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Yesterday, in Rockford, a Canadian National train derailed. The freight train had several tank cars which were carrying ethanol, a highly flammable and highly explosive substance. When the Canadian...

• Local Nursing Homes Fall Short in Government Ratings

  Kristina Labanauskas | February 10, 2009 2:19 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created a Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, families and caregivers to compare nursing homes with greater ease. Nursing homes...

• Buyer Beware: Dangerous Toys for Children

  Kristina Labanauskas | November 24, 2008 4:13 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  It’s officially the holiday shopping season, and Black Friday is just around the corner. If you have any intention of shopping for children’s toys this year, however, you should read the...

• Class Action Lawsuits

  Kristina Labanauskas | May 21, 2009 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  We hear about class action lawsuits all the time. Victoria’s Secret. Vioxx. The list goes on… Most recently in Illinois, a class action lawsuit has been filed against the Village of...

• Safety Issues Lead CTA to Sideline Accordion-Style Buses

  Kristina Labanauskas | February 20, 2009 5:38 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The CTA removed nearly 200 of the 60-foot-long buses from service on Thursday as a precaution after serious cracks were found in one vehicle’s chassis. The articulated buses can carry up to...

• Three-vehicle Auto Accident in Sugar Grove

  Kristina Labanauskas | February 09, 2009 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Just before 7 a.m. this morning, three vehicles were involved in an automobile accident that left three people, all drivers, seriously hurt. The accident took place along Illinois 47 just north of...

• Peanut Butter Recall List Expands

  Kristina Labanauskas | January 21, 2009 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  More than 125 products have been recalled in the recent salmonella/peanuts investigation. All products were made with peanut butter or paste at a Peanut Corp. of America plant. The Blakely, Ga.,...

• Video of Chicago Amtrak crash shows train speeding

  Barry Doyle | December 04, 2007 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  One of the unusual features of the recent Chicago Amtrak crash is that the event was captured on video. In most personal injury cases, descriptions of the events come entirely from eyewitnesses who may describe the same event in very different ways.IThe Norfolk Southern security shows the violence of the train crash as the Amtrak train smashes into the back of the stopped freight train.Other...