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“Soccer moms.” We hear the term all the time and it conjures images of Lululemon-wearing SUV driving women in their 30s and 40s shuffling their children all over creation. But what happens when a “soccer mom” gets involved in a car crash? How does it affect her, her kids, and…

Submit Your Medical Bills to Your Insurance One thing people are usually surprised at is that in a car accident, the “responsible party’s insurance company” does not pay the medical bills! Granted, if the case is successful and liability established and medical documentation connects the injur…

Retain a Lawyer We live in a DIY (do it yourself) age. You can simply go to YouTube and find dozens of videos explaining how to change a tire, stain your deck, replace a toilet, or get better abs, so why not how to handle your own personal injury or workers’ compensation case? The problem is that,…

Plan Now Winter is coming soon. Sure, we have climate change making it arrive a bit later than it used to, but computer models are already predicting an extremely snowy and cold winter all across the Midwest. Almost 50 million people (yes, about one-sixth of the entire country!) traveled during the…

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…