Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog

While many large-scale publications such as the Huffington Post have dubbed the opportunity a “coveted spotlight” for the City of Chicago, our Chicago personal injury lawyers are concerned for the safety of residents during the upcoming interlude when the NATO Summit graces our town.

A NATO summit, such as this one, is a meeting in which the Heads of State of the NATO member countries evaluate & plan Alliance activities. NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an international, intergovernmental military allegiance based on the North Atlantic Treaty, in which all member states agree to defend one another: an attack on one is considered an attack on all. NATO Summits are not regularly scheduled meetings, but are instead timetabled based on important international events or circumstances.

According to a report this week from CBS Chicago, officials are concerned that reactions from local citizens may cause fallout in the way of dangerous circumstances across the city. At this point it’s impossible to predict what sorts of situations may arise, but both city officials and Red Cross workers are putting plans in place for a mass evacuation of Chicago in the event of riots this upcoming weekend.

CBS Chicago also reports that a heavily armed security team will start making a very public appearance around federal buildings in the Loop this week, and that “the American Red Cross in southeastern Wisconsin has been asked to place a number of shelters on standby in the event of evacuation of Chicago.” As is consistent with Illinois law, the plans to protect citizens have come from the City of Chicago itself.

Under Illinois law, premises liability law is a significant branch of Illinois personal injury law that allows victims to recover after they have been injured on another person’s property, and the negligence of the property owner was the cause of that harm; here the ‘property’ would be the entire city of Chicago for which city officials have assumed care.

In order to apply to a set of circumstances, Illinois premises liability law requires a number of factors to be satisfied: the defendant must be the manager or possessor of the land, or “premises” – in this case, if injuries were to occur as a result of a lack of protection provided by the City of Chicago, the defendant would be the city itself and the person or persons responsible for organizing necessary safeguards. Additionally, the person or persons on the land of another must be injured by negligence or a different wrongful act; in this particular situation, the city officials have a duty to ensure that situations don’t get out of control.

Again, no one can know for certain what the future will hold. With any amount of luck, the weekend will come and go without incident, and any Chicago personal injury attorney would hope that no injuries actually occur. Nevertheless, if the City of Chicago does not provide sufficient protection and citizens are harmed, an Illinois personal injury lawsuit may arise. Our attorneys have taken on the City in a number of other cases in which Chicago was negligent, and even won a $10 million settlement for a 5-year-old boy who was run over by a City of Chicago Fire Department truck while playing in an open fire hydrant on the Fourth of July, resulting in the loss of his leg and half of his pelvis.

A devastating accident occurred last week on Chicago’s far South Side when a piece of debris fell from a construction site; tragically, the rubble hit a 37 year old-Chicago man and killed him instantly. According to the Chicago Sun Times, the man was struck by the falling debris late in the afternoon, and was taken to MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island where he was pronounced dead.

Though police officers investigating the man’s death don’t yet know what the man was doing at the construction site, this type of situation may trigger a Chicago wrongful death lawsuit based on landowner liability.

Illinois land owner liability, otherwise known as Illinois premises liability law, is a significant branch of Illinois personal injury law that allows victims to recover after they have been injured on another person’s property, and the negligence of the property owner was the cause of that harm. In order to apply to a set of circumstances, premises liability law requires a number of factors to be satisfied: the defendant must be the owner or possessor of the land, or “premises” – in this case, the defendants are the company responsible for maintaining the construction site. Additionally, the person or persons on the land of another must be injured by negligence or a different wrongful act; in this particular situation, the corporation had a duty to maintain the site.

Illinois premises liability law may be triggered if it can be shown that the property owners or managers either failed to maintain the property, created unsafe conditions that caused the injury, or knew about the unsafe hazard but didn't alert visitors or tenants to this fact. Illinois law holds construction companies and their managing corporations liable for injuries that result because of unsafe conditions at construction sites. Whether the injured victims are workers or not, the companies responsible for construction on the property are tasked with keeping the site free from hazard, and can be made to pay for damages that occur as a result of injuries that occur on that land.

Under Illinois law, wrongful death is the legal concept that arises when a person’s death has been caused by the fault or negligence of another person or business. In cases of wrongful death, such as this one, family members and loved ones of the decedent can file a claim to potentially make the wrongdoer pay damages for things such as the loss of companionship, monetary damages to cover the earnings the deceased person would have provided, and expenses associated with the death such as funeral and burial costs. Because the man was only 37, damages will likely be incurred for future lost wages, and his family may be entitled to compensation for having lost time with him, as well as having to experience grief and sorrow.

Our Illinois personal injury lawyers have handled numerous cases and recovered millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for the families of victims who were wrongfully injured or killed because of someone else's negligence. In fact, our attorneys obtained a $5.7 million settlement for a 27-year-old Joliet, IL roofer in a workplace injury case who was paralyzed when he fell from a roof as a result of the general contractor's failure to provide appropriate safety devices, and an $850,000 settlement for the family of an 88-year-old man Chicago man who died after suffering serious injuries in a fall at a Jiffy Lube service center.

If you or a loved one have been injured on the land of another because of the landowner’s negligence, contact an attorney to discuss your rights under the law. You may be entitled to compensation for your suffering.

Camping is a popular leisure activity for many Illinoisans; but when campgrounds are not well-maintained, things can get dangerous. Tragically, that’s exactly what happened to a family whose two youngest children were killed when a tree fell on their tent while camping at an Illinois campground.

The family was camping out at a popular resort campground; when they became aware of an impending thunderstorm, the father asked the property managers whether the family would be able to stay overnight in one of the log cabins on the property. Nevertheless, the owners of the campground refused, saying the cabin needed cleaning. As the storm worsened, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning and alerted people to potentially destructive winds. Still the family was not permitted to use the log cabin for shelter.

At some point during the overnight hours, a tree that was suffering from trunk rot was knocked down by the storm. Trunk rot is a fungal disease that causes wood at the center of trees to decay, causing the wood to soften and become structurally weaker. As a result, the tree was too feeble to withstand the storm, and fell on the family’s tent; the two youngest children were killed by the impact.

Illinois premises liability law is a significant branch of Illinois personal injury law that allows victims to recover after they have been injured on another person’s property, and the negligence of the property owner was the cause of that harm. In order to apply to a set of circumstances, Illinois premises liability law requires a number of factors to be satisfied: the defendant must be the owner or possessor of the land, or “premises” – in this case, the defendants were the campground owners. Additionally, the person or persons on the land of another must be injured by negligence or a different wrongful act; in this particular situation, the campground owners had a duty to maintain the grounds and ensure that they were safe for campers.

In cases such as this, Illinois premises liability law may be triggered if it can be shown that the property owners or managers either failed to maintain the property, created unsafe conditions that caused the injury, or knew about the unsafe hazard but didn't alert visitors or tenants to this fact.

Following the tragic series of events, the family filed suit against the owners of the recreational campground: The lawsuit accused the campground of being negligent in two ways: not removing the tree suffering from trunk rot and not evacuating campers.

Just this week, a settlement was reached in the case. The owners of the premises were made to pay the family $1.25 million dollars for the wrongful deaths of the two children.

In Illinois wrongful death cases, relatives and loved ones may be able to receive compensation for their loss; this often comes in the form of damages for loss of companionship, or damages for lost wages that the individual would have otherwise contributed to supporting his or her family. In this case, the parents would have recovered for the loss of the companionship and love from their two children.

Though a lawsuit can never bring a loved one back to life, it is a step in the right direction, both for achieving justice, and making those at fault pay for their careless actions. If you or a loved one have been injured on the premises of another, contact an attorney to better understand your rights under the law.

Illinois premises liability law is a significant branch of Illinois personal injury law that allows victims to recover after they have been injured on another person’s property and the negligence of the property owner was the cause of that harm.

That’s exactly what’s being alleged in a recently filed Chicago wrongful death lawsuit. The mother of a woman who was killed in a fire in high-rise apartment building on Lake Shore Drive earlier this month brought the claim. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the lawsuit alleges that the companies responsible for managing the building, 3130 N. Lake Shore LLC and Planned Property Management Inc., are legally liable, and that the 32 year-old woman would otherwise be alive, had there been a sprinkler system in place to put out the fire.

Additionally, the claim asserts that that the two management companies failed to warn the woman of the fire in the building, and permitted her to use the elevators when they "should have known if was not safe to do so."

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the woman died from carbon monoxide intoxication, and inhalation of smoke and soot after she took the elevator to the 12th floor of the building. The tenants of the apartment in which the fire started had left their door open so a pet could escape; nevertheless, the toxic fumes seeped out as well, leading to the woman’s death.

When an accident or injury occurs to a an individual who – at the time of the injury – is on another person's property, the owner or manager of the property may be liable if it can be proved that their negligence led to the injury.

In cases such as this, Illinois premises liability law may be triggered if it can be shown that the property owners or managers either failed to maintain the property, created unsafe conditions that caused the injury, or knew about the unsafe hazard but didn't alert visitors or tenants to this fact.

In this particular situation, legal responsibility could potentially arise from two issues: initially, the fact that the building owners failed to install sufficient sprinklers to extinguish a fire is a prime example of failing to maintain the property, and even created a situation where a potentially dangerous set of circumstances could arise. Moreover, the fact that the woman was allowed to use the elevator and was never warned of the fire in the building is epitomical of failing to alert individuals of dangerous circumstances.

If the property managers are indeed held liable for having been negligent, and it can be shown that their negligence caused or contributed to cause the woman’s death, they may be on the hook for a lot of money.

In Illinois wrongful death cases, relatives and loved ones may be able to receive compensation for their loss; this often comes in the form of damages for loss of companionship, or damages for lost wages that the individual would have otherwise contributed to supporting his or her family. Though a lawsuit can never bring a loved one back to life, it is a step in the right direction, both for achieving justice, and making those at fault pay for their careless actions.

A wrongful death lawsuit has just been filed on behalf of the family of a 19-year-old man who died during a shooting that broke out after a concert by rapper Big Tone; the victim’s mother brought the suit against the business hosting the event where the tragedy occurred.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the wrongful death lawsuit against SJS Limited Partnership, owners of the Arbat Reception Hall, alleges that the defendant company was "negligent by not providing supervision and adequate security to insure the safety of the patrons." The victim died after taking a bullet to the chest.

When an accident or injury occurs to a visitor on another person's property, the owner of the property may be legally responsible if it can be proved that their negligence led to the injury. When injuries do arise in these situations, Illinois premises liability lawsuits occur.

Illinois premises liability law requires a number of things, in order to apply to a set of circumstances: the defendant must be the owner or possessor of the land, or “premises.” Additionally, the person on the land of another must be injured by negligence or a different wrongful act. A number of recent cases have interpreted this to include injuries that occur because of a third person’s wrongful act, which would hold the property owner responsible for having invited the harm-causer on to the land.

Although this construal arguably holds landowners liable for harm they technically didn’t cause, the liability stems from not having been more careful with regard to being discerning about who may enter onto the land. Holding property owners liable in these cases protects the innocent invitees, and sends a message to landowners to be more circumspect about screening their patrons.

The Salt Lake Tribune’s report states that this particular lawsuit alleges that, just as the concert was concluding, a dispute broke out among the guests and gunshots were fired randomly into the crowd. The victim was the last injured person to be taken to the hospital, where he later died from the gunshot wounds.

The claim is that the "defendant’s duties were foreseeable in that the event and the rapper’s audience required that due care and security be maintained to avoid injury and loss of life that occurred." Certainly the shooter was the person immediately responsible for the victim’s death, but the reception hall had a responsibility to ensure the safety of their patrons, which, in this case, meant excluding other dangerous persons.

If you've suffered an injury of this type which you believe may be a result the negligence of another person, you may be able to file a lawsuit to recover the costs involved to pay for your medical bills, any lost earnings or other pain, disfigurement, emotional distress or permanent physical disability you have suffered. A personal injury attorney will be able to advise you of your rights under the law.

Our Chicago wrongful death attorneys have handled a number of these types of cases, including having won a $6.0 million settlement for the families of 6 children who died in a tragic apartment fire on Chicago's north side, where landlords of the building failed to have proper and working smoke detectors in violation of the Chicago Municipal Code, and the children were not able to escape the building in time.

Recently, The Madison Record published an article detailing a pending Illinois personal injury lawsuit. According to the report, in the complaint filed with the court by her personal injury attorney, the woman alleges that she incurred severe injuries upon entering a Highland, Illinois retirement community. Due to a gaping four foot hole located in the floor, the plaintiff sustained injuries to both of her legs when she fell into the unmarked opening.

In addition to the physical injuries she sustained, the plaintiff is also seeking relief for the lost wages she incurred from her inability to work, medical costs, mental and physical pain, as well as, disfigurement that resulted from the injury. The woman states that the retirement community and the mechanical crew who created the hole both acted negligently in their failure to provide proper warning signs, in addition to, failure to prevent entry into the location of the hole. The plaintiff is seeking a $250,000 judgment for the total damages.

Unfortunately, these types of Illinois premises liability are extremely common. Last year, our Illinois injury attorneys settled a similar case in which a 91 year old woman sustained debilitating injuries from a fall as a result of a large parking lot hole. The woman required extensive surgery and rehabilitation for her broken hip that resulted from the fall. In both of these cases the property owners acted negligently by failing to maintain property conditions, in addition to, failure to provide proper warnings of hazardous conditions.

Property owners are responsible for maintaining a safe environment, or warning people when an unsafe area exists. When they fail to do so and someone is seriously injured or killed, victims have the right to seek justice, as well as fair and reasonable compensation for lost wages, medical expenses, as well as, physical and emotion suffering. Lawsuits also send a message to property owners that unsafe conditions will not be tolerated, thereby helping to make businesses, residential communities, and other public places much safer for others.

Every so often, a serious carbon monoxide poisoning makes the national news. This week, fifty four individuals received personal injuries after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning during a youth hockey tournament. Several teens, children, and adults were treated for varying degrees of severity of carbon monoxide poisoning. Luckily, none of the patients faced life-threatening injuries. Several individuals were released, but a couple of people were held for further treatment.

In situations like this, when an accident or injury occurs to a visitor on another person’s property, the property owner may be held legally responsible, or liable, if the victim can prove that the owner’s negligence led to the personal injury. Injuries on properties can include those from exposure to toxic or hazardous substances such as lead or mold, slip and fall accidents, dog bites or maulings, or drownings. Premises liability plantiffs must prove that the property owners either failed to maintain the property or created unsafe conditions which caused the personal injury, knew about the unsafe hazard but did not alert visitors or tenants to this fact, was not careful concerning unsafe conditions which might attract children, or took actions or neglected conditions that caused damage to a neighboring property.

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A former pro-football player from the Dallas Cowboys has filed a premises liability lawsuit against a facility builder and companies operated by the team owner. The former pro player was inside the team’s indoor practice facility when it collapsed last year and sustained a career-ending injury. Like other injury lawsuits filed after the premises accident, the personal injury lawsuit filed claims that the injury plaintiff suffered serious, disabling, and permanent injuries when the structure fell last year.

According to the plaintiff’s injury lawyer, the former football player suffered a herniated disk in his neck after a steel support landed on him during the accident at the practice facility. The injury attorney explained that the injured player faces a “double edged sword” because he is unable to be cleared to play without surgery, but having the surgery will brand him a “damaged” player to the NFL teams. Though veteran players have bounced back to successful careers after having this surgery, the player was a rookie so the injury has cost him his dream to play in the NFL.

A special teams coach has also filed a personal injury lawsuit stemming from the premises accident when he suffered broken vertebrae. Additionally, a team scout, who was left paralyzed from the waste down during the accident, has also filed an injury lawsuit. The premises liability lawsuits allege that the company who built the facility was negligent in its building and also allege that repairs that were being done on the facility were improperly supervised.

More information about the injury lawsuits is available by clicking the hyperlink.

A Cook County injured plaintiff has filed a Cook County premises liability lawsuit against NBC Universal, Inc., PE Productions LLC and Universal City Studios LLLP, and other unknown defendants. According to the Illinois injury lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court, the Chicago injured pedestrian tripped and fell on fake trolley tracks.

As background, movie crews for the 2009 movie Public Enemies transformed Chicago city streets to look like the 1930s. Movie crews installed rubber cobblestones and trolley tracks around the history Biograph Theater in Chicago, where Dillinger was gunned down in July 1934. The Chicago injury plaintiff was crossing Lincoln Avenue at the Fullerton and Halsted intersection in May 2008, when he walked over the fake rubber cobblestones and received injuries. The Chicago injury lawsuit claims that the plaintiff’s feet sank into the rubber and his left foot got caught underneath metal trolley tracks. The Illinois man fell and received severe and serious personal injuries, according to the Cook County lawsuit.

The Cook County premises lawsuit does not detail the extent of the Chicago man’s injuries. However, it states that no signs, barriers, or other warnings existed to alert the plaintiff to the fake stone and tracks. The Chicago personal injury lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $50,000 for the plaintiff’s permanent physical injuries.

Premises liability law is the law that makes the individual in possession of land or premises responsible for certain injuries suffered by persons who are present on the premises. As for public roads and sidewalks, premises owners are typically charged with clearing public sidewalks in front of their premises. Further, they are responsible for maintaining their premises so as not to pose a danger to members of the public who are passing by on a public street or sidewalk.

Click here to read more about the Chicago personal injury lawsuit.

Chicago injury lawyer Susan L. Novosad recently obtained a $1.2 million Illinois premises liability settlement on behalf of an Illinois injured victim. In 2002, the plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a general handyman on the estate. The injured plaintiff was gardening on the property near a greenhouse when a large selection of the façade of the greenhouse fell onto the plaintiff, causing him to suffer severe and permanent injuries. He suffered crush injury, lumbar plexopathy, radiculopathy, hip and back pain, sensory numbness, impairment, weakness, concussion, and depression.

Third party defendants were hired by the defendant to evaluate the greenhouse structure and found that the greenhouse was structurally unsound and in an unstable condition. However, the third party defendants failed to notify the city in which the defendant’s estate was located of the greenhouse’s inhabitable condition. The third party defendants also failed to secure the site around the structure to prevent personal injuries to people lawfully on the premises, like the personal injury plaintiff. The defendant estate owner was aware that the greenhouse structure was unsafe and unfit, but failed to fix the condition of the greenhouse and failed to take appropriate measures to prohibit the Illinois premises liability plaintiff from accessing the area near the greenhouse. But, the defendant chose to make no repairs to ensure the safety of others due to the costly nature.

The St. Clair Record is reporting that an Illinois plaintiff has filed an Illinois personal injury lawsuit against a St. Clair County nursing home. The premises liability lawsuit alleges that the female victim sustained injuries to multiple body parts – her shoulder, neck, back, and coccyx- after falling at the St. Clair County nursing home. The slip-and-fall occurred in April 2008, when the Illinois plaintiff encountered a wet, slippery floor that had been recently mopped, which caused her to fall. In addition to the woman’s injuries, the personal injury plaintiff incurred medical costs and lost money because of her fall at the Illinois nursing home.

The plaintiff of the personal injury lawsuit alleges that the nursing home was negligent for failing to warn its customers and visitors of a recently mopped floor and for allowing a wet floor to exist in an area where it could expect its customers would traffic and for failing to barricade a passageway where the wet floor existed. The personal injury lawsuit seeks a judgment of greater than $50,000 plus costs.

Illinois slip-and-fall accidents are unfortunately not infrequent and people can sustain serious injuries in them. When an accident or injury occurs to a person visiting another person’s property, the owner of the property owes a duty of care to the visitor and may be legally responsible if an individual or his/her personal injury attorney can prove that the owner’s negligence or recklessness led to the injury. The injured party may be able to recover the costs to pay for medical bills, lost earnings, and other pain, disfigurement, emotional distress, or permanent physical disability they have suffered.

For more about the Illinois slip-and-fall lawsuit.

An Illinois negligence lawsuit against an Illinois strip club can proceed after a decision issued by the Illinois Supreme Court. Chicagobreakingnews.com reported that the Illinois Supreme Court decided that DuPage County Diamond’s Gentlemen’s Club near West Chicago had a duty to prevent two intoxicated patrons from driving away. The Illinois Supreme Court ruling has made way for an Illinois negligence lawsuit filed by the families of one of the patrons and a woman who were killed in a subsequent alcohol-related accident. The drunk driver was convicted in 2007 of aggravated DUI and reckless homicide and is serving a 12-year prison sentence; however, the negligence lawsuit against him and the operating company of Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club is still pending.

While the DuPage County strip club does not have a liquor license, strip club patrons are allowed to bring their own liquor and the club sells them mixers. The drunk driver and his passenger had been drinking heavily at the club and were ordered to leave after the drunk driver was witnessed vomiting in the bathroom. In its opinion, the Illinois Supreme Court stated that the operating company “knew that the [drunk driver] was intoxicated and clearly knew he was driving from the premises.” Of the premises liability lawsuit, the victim’s attorney stated that it was a perfect storm of bad conduct.

The St. Charles Sun also reported that the owners of Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club could be held liable. The drunk driving accident involved an SUV traveling on Route 25 when it crossed the center line and slammed head-on into an SUV driven by a 27 year-old Yorkville woman who was two weeks away from giving birth.

The Chicagobreakingnews.com article about the premises liability lawsuit is available here.

The Chicago attorneys at Levin & Perconti recently read an article about an Illinois lawsuit that promises to be interesting. As our blog readers know, the attorneys at Levin & Perconti specialize in Illinois injury lawsuits, so this injury ruling peaked our interest. The Chicago Tribune reported that a DuPage, Illinois County judge recently issued a ruling that an Illinois jury should consider if a golfer was negligent in a golf accident where his golf ball hit a woman who was working in her yard next to the golf course. The Illinois judge said that laws in some states say that people who purchase their homes near a golf course assume the risk of being hit by the ball. Assumption of risk is a defense in tort law which stops an injury plaintiff from being able to recover damages against a negligent party if the negligent party can show that the plaintiff voluntarily and knowingly assumed the risks at issue. However, Illinois does not have such a law in regards to homes near golf courses.

This golf accident occurred in August 2005 when a Naperville man hit a West Chicago woman on the head. The Naperville Illinois man was participating in an annual DuPage, Illinois County Republican Day. The golf injury lawsuit was filed in 2007 and alleged that the Naperville man was negligent. The injury plaintiff contends that she continues to suffer migraine headaches as a result of the golf accident. The Illinois Golf & Country Club is also a part of the golf lawsuit, which is seeking more than $50,000 in damages.

To read more about the golf injury lawsuit ruling, click here.

An injury lawsuit is set for trial this week regarding a boy who fractured his skull after a 13-foot fall at a museum. The injury accident occurred in 2006 when the personal injury victim was in fifth grade. He fell from a museum’s outdoor jungle gym. The personal injury victim’s mother says that Multi-Resonance Imaging (MRIs) show that the injury victim suffered traumatic brain injury and has struggled since to keep up in school.

His mother stated that it is devastating as a mother to know that her son’s trip to an outdoor jungle gym changed her son’s whole life. The child was climbing a stacked metal structure when he fell onto a walkway. His mother recalls that she heard sirens and all of a sudden she saw everyone was looking down over a railing, which is when she panicked. Experts have determined that the injury victim will suffer a lifetime of economic loss in excess of $400,000. Through her injury lawsuit, the injury victim’s mother says that she wants to make the museum a safer place. The museum has filed a countersuit against the injury victim’s parents, claiming that they failed to adequately supervise their son.

To read more about the museum injury trial set for this week, click here.

A restaurant patron has filed a personal injury lawsuit and premises liability lawsuit against an establishment where she claims that she was clobbered by a fallen stuffed moose head. The personal injury lawsuit alleges that while the personal injury victim was dining and drinking at a restaurant late one night, a giant moose head had become dislodged from the wall and struck her on the head.

According to court documents, the moose head weighed approximately 150 pounds, with antlers spanning over three feet. The stuffed head contributed to the restaurant’s Scandinavian theme and the blow resulted in personal injuries such as a concussion, chronic neck pain, fatigue, dizziness, embarrassment, and anxiety. The personal injury lawsuit seeks unspecified damages from the eatery for failing to ensure that the plaintiff and other patrons would not be struck by loosely affixed moose head.

For more information on the restaurant moose head lawsuit.

According to the Chicago Tribune, last week, a 57 year old Illinois man died at the Fox River Pavilion nursing home in Aurora. A Saturday autopsy was inconclusive, so authorities say that they will have to wait for toxicology results. Illinois police said over the weekend that the 57 year old man had no signs or personal injuries that would explain his death at the time. The nursing home death occurred Thursday evening after getting into a physical altercation with his Illinois nursing home roommate. Police have described the Illinois nursing home death as “suspicious.” The man who was involved in the physical altercation with the 57 year old victim was questioned by police and subsequently released. The results of the toxicology tests will take three to four weeks. The Kane County coroner must wait for those results to determine a cause of death for the Illinois man. Prosecutors will also wait for toxicology results to decide whether or not charges against anyone should be pursued.

Click here to read more about the Illinois man’s nursing home death.

A chairlift broke Thursday night at a popular ski resort in Wisconsin that Chicago-area skiers like to frequent. The frightening malfunction resulted in personal injuries to at least fourteen people. There were at least three serious injuries and seven non-serious injuries. Thankfully, none of the personal injuries were considered life-threatening.

Watch the video report of the ski malfunction below.

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Jiffy Lube has agreed to settle a personal injury lawsuit with the family of an 88 year-old Illinois injury victim who was hurt due to a fall at a Chicago Jiffy Lube. The personal injuries resulted in the victim’s untimely death four weeks after the fall. Susan Novosad of Levin & Perconti represented the victim’s family in the wrongful death lawsuit.

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A death investigation is being conducted after a 56 year-old Chicago man fell three stories to his death from his porch. The man was deceased by the time the paramedics responded.

To read more about the Chicago man’s death.

The Law Bulletin reports that the plaintiff has settled her premises liability lawsuit for $500,000. The plaintiff was a social guest of the defendant’s third floor tenant. She suffered multiple fractures and blunt head trauma when the porch railing gave way as she leaned against it. The victim fell three stories.

To read more about the premises liability settlement.