Interesting lawsuit filed in Chicago this week.  McDonald’s is being sued after a young girl suffered 3rd degree burns when her hot chocolate spilled all over her.  After the famous “McDonald’s Coffee” lawsuit in which a women was awarded $2.86 million after she burned herself with hot coffee she purchased from McDonald’s, you’d think that [...]

Our Chicago Personal Injury Attorneys caught this lawsuit filed the other day by a man against a Segway Tour operator for injuries sustained when he was thrown off his Segway. Suit: Injured Segway Rider Told to ‘Slalom’ Between Trees Sun-Times Media Wire Chicago – About a week after the Chicago Park District sent an e-mail to [...]

More Lawsuits in the news.  Our Chicago injury Lawyers highlight the lawsuit filed a CSX worker who claims that his degenerative spinal condition was the result of his 42 year career at CSX.  This suit is noteworthy in that, if successful, could open up a Pandora’s box of similar lawsuits for all kinds of labor [...]

Our Chicago Lawyers are often asked about some of the stranger DUI arrests that we have heard of, or some of the craziest personal injury lawsuits that we have seen. Well, here’s the best example of both: a crazy personal injury lawsuit that also involved DUI. In 1992, Karen Norman, after a night of drinking, accidentally [...]

Another odd personal injury lawsuit – this time from a New York Mets’ fan who claims it is Major League Baseball and baseball players’ fault for the shattered bat that hit him in the face. Sox’s Castro named in fan’s broken-bat lawsuit August 9, 2010 Tribune News Services A New York Mets [...]

Our Chicago Personal Injury Attorneys ran across an interesting story the other day regarding the use of Facebook as an investigative tool in certain types of personal injury lawsuits. How Facebook Can Make or Break Your Case Eric B. Meyer – The Legal Intelligencer Facebook has over 500 million active users. Twitter users are recording [...]

Our Chicago Injury Attorneys were shocked to hear of the 9 year old boy who was stranded at O’Hare for 8 hours due to a United Airlines employee oversight. Boy, 9, Left Stranded At O’Hare For 8 Hours CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) A 9-year-old boy, traveling alone and heading home to Canada, ended up stranded for eight hours [...]

The “naked cowboy lawsuit”, as reported by the New York Post has even some of the best lawyers in Chicago shaking their heads. Naked Cowboy Sues Naked Cowgirl Hide ‘em, cowgirl! The Naked Cowboy wants a judge to force the Naked Cowgirl to cover up. The Times Square legend, whose real name is Robert John Burck, said comedian [...]

Once again, another tragic story involving a motorcycle accident.  Our personal injury attorney, Chicago update: Cicero man dies after motorcycle crash SUN-TIMES A man died Saturday afternoon following a motorcycle accident in west suburban Cicero. Jessie Vesuntia, 22, died after a collision between a motorcycle and a fixed object at Cicero Avenue and 14th Street, according [...]

Our personal injury attorney/Chicago Alert notes this latest auto accident: 6 children hurt in crash on Eisenhower Six children suffered minor injuries after a motor vehicle accident on the Eisenhower Expressway early Friday in west suburban Oak Park. At 12:30 a.m., a crash occurred on I-290 near Lombard Avenue that resulted in minor injuries, Illinois State Trooper [...]