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$2.5 MILLION VERDICT FOR A CONSTRUCTION SITE ACCIDENT

Wednesday, 9 December 2009 14:48 by Admin
$2,500,000 VERDICT MILLWRIGHT STUMBLES ON DEBRIS Trial counsel James J. Morici, Jr., obtained a jury verdict for a 29 year old millwright. The plaintiff stepped off of a sloped settling tank wall on... [More]

$1 MILLION VERDICT FOR AN INJURED PREGNANT MOTORIST

Tuesday, 8 December 2009 14:09 by Admin
Pregnant motorist recovers $982k for fractured neck in expressway rollover A Cook County jury returned a verdict in favor of a Berwyn couple totaling $982,000 for injuries sustained to a seven-mon... [More]

7 hurt, 3 seriously, in far North Side accident

Tuesday, 29 June 2010 14:15 by Admin
June 27, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE Seven people were injured in a Far North Side motor vehicle accident, according to the fire department. The accident happened near North Sheridan Road... [More]

Morici Figlioli Nominates Chief Ralph DeBartolo for Law Enforcement Award

Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:18 by Admin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chief Ralph DeBartolo receives the 2010 ISBA “Law Enforcement Man of the Year Award”  Rolling Meadows, Illinois- May 27th, 2010- Illinois State Bar Associatio... [More]

Evergreen Park teen killed in car crash

Friday, 7 May 2010 09:36 by Admin
May 7, 2010 6:30 AM  A 17-year-old girl died following a traffic crash Thursday night in southwest suburban Evergreen Park, authorities said. Danielle Sellers, of the 2900 block of... [More]

Robbery spawns chase that leads to deadly Eisenhower crash

Thursday, 6 May 2010 13:32 by Admin
May 5, 2010 9:02 PM The rolled-over car chased by robbery victims on the Eisenhower Expressway. (WGN-TV) A frantic, 10-mile car chase that ended in a deadly wreck on the Eisenhower Exp... [More]

One dead, three injured in Crystal Lake crash

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 12:31 by Admin
April 11, 2010 SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE A suburban woman was killed and three more people injured following a Saturday night crash in northwest suburban Crystal Lake that police suspect involved... [More]

Boy 12 killed riding bike on Southwest Side

Monday, 19 April 2010 11:11 by Admin
April 19, 2010 5:50 AM A 12-year-old boy riding his bicycle was killed Sunday night after he was struck by a pickup truck in Chicago's Clearing neighborhood. The driver was ticketed. Ryan... [More]

Man dies after falling on 'L' tracks

Friday, 9 April 2010 09:11 by Admin
April 9, 2010 5:46 AM | UPDATED STORY Authorities were investigating why a man died after falling on the tracks at a West Side "L" station late Thursday. Michael Williams, 56,  was ... [More]

4 hurt in South Side crash

Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:55 by Admin
March 29, 2010 2:46 PM |  Chicago Fire Department rescue crews tend to victims from a car crash at East 63rd Street and South Dr. Martin King Drive (Erick Clark/For the Tribune). Four p... [More]

$95,000 for auto accident injury

Tuesday, 16 March 2010 10:27 by Admin
Plaintiff was traveling north bound on Austin Avenue when the defendent ran a red light and hit the plaintiff causing her multiple injuries to her back including a herniated disc. Injuries needed surg... [More]

SUV driver in fatal crash

Monday, 15 March 2010 14:57 by Admin
Route 59 in southwest suburban Plainfield has been reopened following a three-vehicle crash in which four people were injured Saturday night.The crash happened at Illinois Route 59 and Wedgewood Court... [More]

$100,000 Settlement in Premises Liablity case

Monday, 15 March 2010 09:15 by Admin
$100,000 settlement for an injured patron at a flee market.  Plaintiff was walking thorugh a crowd into a flee market and stepped into a huge pot hole and fell on to his right shoulder tearing hi... [More]

Plane crash in Iran, 46 injured

Tuesday, 9 March 2010 15:09 by Admin
Plane crash in Iran, 46 injured Sunday, January 24, 2010 TEHRAN, Iran – A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash landed in northeastern Iran on Sunday i... [More]

Gas leak sickens many at Hanover Central High

Friday, 5 March 2010 16:25 by Admin
47 students, teachers sent to hospitals with nose bleeds, vomiting, nausea February 27, 2010 BY JANE HUH CEDAR LAKE -- A natural gas leak that smelled like "car exhaust" sent 47 Hanover Ce... [More]

Worker injured in fire in John Hancock restaurant

Tuesday, 9 February 2010 14:42 by Admin
February 9, 2010 12:30 PM A 50-year-old worker sustained second-degree burns this morning when a flash fire occurred in a restaurant at the John Hancock building on the Magnificent Mile, off... [More]

2 Chicago police officers hurt in West Side crash

Friday, 5 February 2010 12:13 by Admin
February 5, 2010 6:14 AM A Chicago police squad car sits in the eastbound lanes of Grand Avenue near Sacramento Avenue after a crash with another vehicle. (Tribune / Andrew L. Wang) Two C... [More]

Toyota Recalls over 1 million vehicles

Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:29 by Admin
Chicago Suntimes TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will recall an additional 1.09 million vehicles in the United States over problems with gas pedals and floor mats -- a fresh blow to the ... [More]

Girls eye punctured while being Immunized

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:51 by Admin
Lawsuit: Girl stuck in eye during immunization January 11, 2010 5:15 PM  A girl taken to a West Side health clinic to be immunized in 2007 instead ended up with the needle in her left... [More]

Chicago man, 89, dies after I-55 crash

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 15:43 by Admin
An 89-year-old Chicago man died following a one-vehicle crash on Interstate Highway 55 near Bolingbrook Monday morning, police said. James Santore, 89, of Chicago, was killed when his Ford auto s... [More]

9 Injured in single vehicle car crash

Monday, 28 December 2009 16:05 by Admin
Chicago authorities say nine people were injured -- four seriously -- in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 290 near the city. Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis says all nine, incl... [More]

Injured flight attendants file legal claim of negligence

Wednesday, 23 December 2009 14:00 by Admin
Injured flight attendants file legal claim of negligence By The Associated Press SEATTLE — A pair of Alaska Airlines flight attendants injured when a 2007 flight hit air turbulence are filin... [More]

Woman killed in I-57 crash identified

Wednesday, 23 December 2009 09:49 by Admin
December 23, 2009 5:40 AM  The 27-year-old woman killed in a traffic crash Tuesday evening on Interstate Highway 57 in south suburban Calumet Park was identified this morning as Lat... [More]

Women killed, son hurt in hit and run

Tuesday, 22 December 2009 14:10 by Admin
December 22, 2009 5:38 AM  A woman was killed and her 6-year-old son was seriously hurt when they were struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Rogers Park neighborhood Monday night, Chic... [More]

$180,000 for an Injured Construction Worker

Wednesday, 16 December 2009 14:25 by Admin
Attorney Robert Butzow, obtained a favorable award of $180,000 for a man injured on a construction site.  The petitioner sustained injury to his left knee while pushing loads of building material... [More]

Bicyclist injured in Jefferson Park

Monday, 14 December 2009 13:29 by Admin
Bicyclist hit, critically injured in Jefferson Park December 14, 2009 12:04 PM A man riding a bicycle was struck by a car and critically injured Sunday night in Chicago's Jefferson Park nei... [More]

Injured Bicyclist in Jefferson Park

Monday, 14 December 2009 12:53 by Admin
Bicyclist hit, critically injured in Jefferson Park December 14, 2009 12:04 PM A man riding a bicycle was struck by a car and critically injured Sunday night in Chicago's Jefferson Park ne... [More]

Woman struck, killed by Amtrak train identified

Friday, 11 December 2009 12:37 by Admin
December 11, 2009 9:48 AM  The person hit and killed last night by a Seattle and Portland-bound Amtrak train has been identified as a 43-year-old Grayslake woman. Teresa Spradlin, o... [More]

Wife injured, husband killed in Metra accident

Friday, 11 December 2009 11:51 by Admin
December 11, 2009 Bensenville and Metra police are still investigating a crash Thursday night involving a Metra train in which a Franklin Park man was killed. Andres Martinez, 63, was killed w... [More]

Teen fatally struck by a car in Niles

Friday, 4 December 2009 15:59 by Admin
Death of teen fatally struck by car in Niles a homicide December 4, 2009 3:37 PM | An autopsy performed today ruled the death of a teenage boy who was run down by a car last week in a Nile... [More]