Get on This Right Away The easiest way to mess up a meritorious personal injury case is often by not retaining counsel immediately. As we have seen in past blogs, failing to document your injuries, reporting the crash or incident, or talking to the insurance company can be injurious or even fatal to…

The Adjuster Wants to Talk to You He or she seems nice, what is the harm in talking to him or her? The best way to ruin a perfectly good case is by talking to an adjuster. Why? Because we like to talk, and adjusters are trained to get you to talk. Their goal is to get you to admit to things that wil…

At some point, almost all of us will be involved in a car crash. The likelihood is great, despite our best attempts at avoiding crashes and driving safely. There are simply too many vehicles on the roads, too many inattentive drivers, too many distractions, for crashes not to be inevitable. In fact,…

If you live in, work in, or visit the Chicago area with any regularity, you’ve notice the explosion of protected bike lanes, as well as “traditional” bike lanes. There are more and more cyclists on the road than ever. In fact, within the last year, Bicycling Magazine called Chicago the…

A young woman arrives at her friend’s wedding at the beautiful Lincoln Park restaurant anticipating seeing her friends, having fun, and celebrating the bride and groom as a couple. Instead, she left bloody, sliced open, and in need of surgery. How could this happen? The Excitement and Anticipation…

Statements in Personal Injury Cases The old standby of criminal defense attorneys that you should never talk to the police applies similarly to personal injury cases and your communication with the insurance carrier. Just don’t do it! Why is it a bad idea to talk to the insurance carrier? Every th…

Prove pain and suffering and loss of a normal life to a jury, so that it resonates and turns into compensation. Believe it or not, keeping a diary following a personal injury is a key way to do this.

The old saw that computers are only as good as the information humans put into them applies to autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles. What decisions are autonomous vehicles programmed to make and who decides what is right and what is wrong?