by jamesbizzieri | Jul 31, 2023 | Defective Products Claims, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation
If you’ve been injured while in the course of your work and you’ve filed a workers compensation claim, you should understand that you may be eligible to receive personal injury damages to compensate for a variety of costs and losses also. With the myriad of...
by jamesbizzieri | Jul 28, 2023 | Personal Injury
When plaintiffs seek personal injury damages after an accident, it’s often that those damages are compensatory in nature. Compensatory damages redress losses resulting from their accident and injuries. But the fact is in some cases where a judge determines the actions...
by jamesbizzieri | Jul 28, 2023 | Nursing Home Abuse, Personal Injury
In a 2021 study of more than 2000 nursing home residents conducted by the National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), 44% of respondents reported that they had themselves suffered abuse and 95% reported that they had been neglected or witnessed neglect of other residents...
by jamesbizzieri | Jul 26, 2023 | Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
In most cases, when a patient enlists the services of a physician or medical facility, one can assume that some level of risk will be involved. It’s therefore prudent that a physician or other medical professional inform the patient about whatever procedure or test...
by jamesbizzieri | Jul 26, 2023 | Nursing Malpractice, Personal Injury
As with doctors, nurses have a legal responsibility to maintain standards of quality in patient care. As such, states recognize when a nurse’s failure to live up to those responsibilities, and patient harm results. We lay out several instances where Illinois...
by jamesbizzieri | Jul 25, 2023 | Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation
Some professions, by their very nature, create conditions for illness or injury. There are many occupations that often bring about injuries directly related to the work they involve. Those conditions are called occupational illnesses and are often covered by workers’...
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