An recent Illinois medical malpractice jury verdict was affirmed by the Illinois Fifth District Appellate in favor of an injured plaintiff in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The appellate court’s decision effectively denied a physician’s claims that the plaintiff had failed to effectively prove the defendant had breached the standard of…
Yesterday the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) sponsored its thirteenth year of its Principal for a Day (PFAD) program. celebrated its 13th year in Principal for a Day. Chicago personal injury attorney Robert Kreisman participated in the program at Bowen Environmental Studies Team (B.E.S.T.) on Chicago’s south side. Attorney Kreisman and…
Leading heart valve manufacturers Edwards Lifesciences and Medtronic are racing each other to perfect new heart valves that could revolutionize heart valve replacement surgery. The new heart valves would result in a less-invasive surgery because they can be inserted via catheters without the requirement for an open heart procedure. And…
A recently settled Illinois wrongful death case presented a unique theory of liability that targeted the owner of a restaurant more so than the driver who caused the Illinois car accident. The decedent was tragically killed when an 85 year-old man mistakenly accelerated instead of braking, crashing his Chrysler Sebring…
An Illinois Appellate Court held that a suburban Chicago park district has been ordered to pay an Illinois worker’s compensation claim to an employee that got hurt playing a sport during his work shift because the activity didn’t technically qualify as “recreational”. Elmhurst Park District v. Industrial Commission of Illinois,…
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, Evanston/North Shore Branch of the NAACP celebrated its 100th year with pride. Several hundred friends and supporters were in attendance at the Chicago North Shore Holiday Inn in Skokie, Illinois. Chicago personal injury attorney Robert Kreisman attended the event as a member of the NAACP.…
Using actual transcripts from the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals, The Response provides a window into the tribunals and allows the general public a glimpse of what takes place at Guantanamo Bay. The film’s writer/producer, Sig Libowitz, has had first hand experience at Guantanamo Bay, participating as a legal observer to…
In a case before the Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals in Chicago, it was held that a general contractor can be held liable for injuries to an employee of a sub-contractor where it is shown that the general contractor has assumed a degree of the responsibility for his…
A woman brought an Cook County medical malpractice lawsuit against her gynecologist for a failure to diagnose her breast cancer in a timely manner. The woman had been seeing the defendant gynecologist regularly since the mid-1980s, but the diagnosis was not made until May 2000, at which point the woman…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a strict local and state gun control law violates the Second Amendment when it reviews a lower court’s decision to uphold Chicago’s handgun ban. The Chicago case was filed following the Supreme Court’s June 2008 decision in the District of Columbia…