Chicago Personal Injury Law Blog

Medical malpractice resources serve as an important protection for victims. Greater than 4,000 preventable medical errors occur in surgery every year. These are referred to as never events because they should not take place. Fortunately, medical malpractice legal resources are available to help victims and their families with the aftermath of medical negligence and a medical error.

Medical errors result in injuries 59% of the time, deaths 6.6% of the time and permanent injuries 33% of the time. These types of errors include leaving a foreign object in a patient's body; performing the wrong procedure on a patient; or operating on the wrong site of the patient's body. Researchers estimated that on a weekly basis foreign objects were left in a patient 39 times, that the wrong procedure was performed on a patient 20 times and patients were operated on in the wrong area of their body 20 times.

Injuries sustained from a dangerous or defective product can have a dramatic impact on the lives of victims. It is important for victims to be familiar with legal resources protecting them when they have been harmed by a dangerous or defective product and the parties that may be liable to help them with their damages.

Products liability law protects victims injured by dangerous or defective products. Victims can bring a products liability claim for damages to help them with their physical, financial and emotional damages. Victims may be able to recover compensation for medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering damages, as well as other types of damages depending on the circumstances. There are different theories upon which liability may be based which is why it is helpful for victims to be familiar with how products liability law works.

Truck accidents can sometimes leave victims facing a lifetime of unexpected challenges and damages that range from medical expenses to lost wages and emotional damages associated with the trauma victims have suffered. Personal injury legal protections are an available resource to help truck accident victims with the physical, financial and emotional damages suffered in an unexpected truck accident.

Many victims are killed and injured in truck accidents each year because of poorly-maintained trucks and the unsafe operation of trucks. When sharing the roadway with passenger vehicles, it is important that large trucks follow certain rules and take care to help ensure the safety of those they are sharing the roadways with. When truck drivers and trucking companies are negligent, and victims suffer harm as a result, they may be liable to compensate victims for the harm they have suffered.

Since summers are most commonly associated with barbeques and white pants, Chicago residents may be surprised to hear that the time between Memorial Day and Labor Day is commonly referred to as the 100 deadliest days because of the number of car accidents that take place in them. These months are dangerous for all drivers, but more so for teens.

With more teens on the roads, it is more likely that they would become involved in a crash. At the same time, their inexperience is also a contributing factor to accidents. Their lack of driving experience means they are slower to recognize a potential risk and respond to it accordingly.