Category: Personal Injury Blog

HONOLULU (April 16, 2024) – One person was killed and many others were injured when a bus crashed into two concrete barriers and pinned pedestrians against a wall at a cruise ship terminal in Honolulu. The 57-year-old bus driver was dropping off customers off at the cruise terminal in Honolulu…

Concern increases as reported cancer cases among North Carolina State University alumni have risen to 150 due to potential exposure to a carcinogen while studying in the university’s Poe Hall. Of the former NC State students diagnosed with cancer, approximately 3 out of every 4 are female. Poe Hall is…

BALTIMORE (March 26, 2024) – A container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, causing it to fall into the Patapsco River below. Search and rescue teams immediately launched efforts to locate survivors who may have plunged into the water during the collapse, with several…

CHICAGO (January 9) – An Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Ore. to Ontario, Calif. was only minutes into its journey when a door plug unexpectedly blew off leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. The door plug malfunctioned when the aircraft reached approximately 16,000 feet, an NTSB…

Updated on Friday, November 17 CHICAGO (November 17, 2023) – After a CTA Yellow Line train collided with a train snowplow on the tracks Thursday morning, 38 people were left injured at the Howard Street Switching Station NBC reported. This is the largest CTA train crash in decades. The fire…

Affidavit – A written statement made under oath, punishable by penalty of perjury. To be valid in court, it must be signed in the presence of a notary public or another official taker of an oath. If anything in it is found to be untrue, the witness can be charged…

BEDFORD PARK, Ill. (September 15, 2023) – After a tent collapsed in Bedford Park, Illinois, 26 people were taken to a nearby hospital, according to Chicago’s WGN News Of those 26 people, 5 remain in serious condition as of Friday morning. The tent collapse happened during an “employee appreciation event” luncheon…

DECATUR, Ill. (September 12, 2023) – An explosion occurred just after 7 p.m. Sunday in Decatur, Illinois, a large city about 180 miles southwest of Chicago. The explosion happened at the east plant of the Archer Daniels Midland Company facility and injured at least eight people with six of them…

While jet skiing and other boating activities signal the start of summer, a recent Hudson River jet ski accident demonstrates just how tragic jet skis can be. After two jet skis collided, all emergency service providers responded, including the Newburgh Fire Department, State Police, city police, and Orange County Sheriff…

As we approach prom, graduation, and the summer season, it’s important to recognize that while these are generally happy occasions, they also signify an increasingly dangerous time of year for teen drivers. According to a recent survey by AAA, 41 percent of teens between the ages of 16 and 19…