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• Slice of Humble Pie: Doctors may get Cash Bonus for an Apology

  Nick Avgerinos | May 27, 2008 2:52 PM | 3 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  Medical malpractice claims cause doctors far and wide to head for the hills. After all, nothing can put a dent in many years of hard work quite like a hard-wrought fight about who messed up what...

• Get Your Fix on the Internet: The New Drug Dealer

  Nick Avgerinos | May 22, 2008 5:43 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  These days you can find most anything online. It is becoming commonplace to wear a shirt and slacks purchased online from Brooks Brothers, while preparing your meal with food from Peapod, for...

• The safety of Illinois construction workers to be debated by the Illinois Legislature.

  Steve Smalling | April 19, 2008 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  One would assume that safe work practices on construction sites would be the top priority of everyone involved in the industry Few occupations pose the risks and hazards of those encountered by...

• Think Twice Before Firing An Employee For Filing A Workers' Compensation Claim - Local Governments Not Immune From Retaliatory Discharge Lawsuit in Illinois

  Nick Avgerinos | April 18, 2008 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  In a decision that is good news for governmental employees, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that local governments are not immune from lawsuits from employees claiming retaliatory discharge for...

• Chicagoans: How Safe Is Your Lake Michigan Drinking Water?

  Nick Avgerinos | April 17, 2008 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  Today Chicago area citizens have to be asking themselves, “Is our drinking water safe?” In today's Chicago Tribune it was reported that "Chicago officials have never tested the city and suburban...

• Lawsuit filed against Blue Man Group

  Tony Romanucci | February 04, 2008 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  Although wildly popular across the country, BMG carried one of its stunts too far. Romanucci & Blandin, LLC filed a lawsuit against BMG for its esphogeal camera stunt gone wrong. The Chicago Tribune reported yesterday as follows: If you haven't seen the act that's mentioned in the suit, it goes something like this: A rhythmic thump of rock music serves as the soundtrack to the commotion near...

• Illinois Hospital safety reports past due

  Tony Romanucci | January 08, 2008 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  Four years after Illinois passed two groundbreaking laws designed to shed light on hospital safety and performance, patients are still in the dark.The Illinois Hospital Report Card -- at the time, the nation's first effort to document hospital-acquired infections -- has not been published."It's disappointing because Illinois was the leader, the model state that everyone was looking to," said...

• Multi Million Dollar Jury Verdict Affirmed

  Tony Romanucci | January 03, 2008 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  A Cook County, Illinois Appellate Court decided that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it denied the City of Chicago's motion for new trial after a jury awarded $17.7 Million to a Romanucci & Blandin client who was severely injured when a police vehicle struck him from rear. There was sufficient evidence for jury to conclude that the officer, who testified that she entered...

• $12 Million Police Shooting Verdict Against Chicago Police department

  Tony Romanucci | December 17, 2007 9:09 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  In one of the largest awards ever in a Chicago Police shooting, a Cook County jury Thursday said the city must pay $12 million to the family of a 23-year-old unarmed man whose death was caught on a CTA station security video now heavily viewed on YouTube. That tops the 2003 award of $9.6 million in the police shooting of Northwestern University student Robert Russ, but is less than the 2001...

• Train Derails in Chicago's South Side

  Courtney Mills | November 30, 2007 3:25 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Grand Rapids struck the rear of a parked Norfolk Southern Freight train earlier this morning on Chicago's south side. As a result of the crash, some 45 passengers were taken to area hospitals, among whom six were seriously injured.According to media reports, there were 187 passengers on the train. The six passengers suffering from critical injuries...