Year: 2021

CHICAGO (July 15, 2021) – Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard is proud to announce attorney Heidi L. Wickstrom has been elected Chair of the American Association for Justice’s Professional Negligence section. As chair, Ms. Wickstrom will oversee the Professional Negligence newsletter and online content, plan the group’s CLE for the next…

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations recently reported that clinical alarm response issues are among the top so-called “never” events. This is the case despite the fact that the Joint Commission explained years earlier the need to develop a National Patient Safety Goal for physiologic monitors and alarm…

By: Sofia Hasty LOS ANGELES – At least 17 people, including police officers, were hit by a massive explosion of illegal fireworks Wednesday evening. That night, bomb squad officers had been in the area of 27th Street and San Pedro seizing over 5,000 pounds of explosives planned to be illegally…

Fourteen people recently died on a crash in a sightseeing cable car in Italy, according to news reports. Police arrested three people after learning the tragedy occurred after workers placed a clamp on the emergency brake to deactivate it as part of a patchwork repair. The brake was engaging when…

ROCKTON, Ill. – A massive explosion at a Winnebago County chemical plant ignited a fire and prompted hundreds of evacuations Monday, less than a month after the plant was inspected by a federal agency. Around 7:30 a.m., emergency crews rushed to the scene of a fire at the Chemtool Inc., a…

CHICAGO – Kevin Clark, a Chicago musician famous for playing the drummer Freddy “Spazzy McGee” Jones in the 2003 film “School of Rock,” was struck and killed by a driver early Wednesday while he biked in the Logan Square neighborhood. Clark, 32, was riding westbound in the 2600 block of North…

POSEN, Ill. (May 10, 2021) – A 62-year-old grandmother was killed in a Mother’s Day hit-and-run while leaving church in south suburban Posen Sunday. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of 147th Street and Mozart Avenue. Family said 62-year-old Annette Odneal was leaving church in her SUV…

CHICAGO – This spring has seen a rise in wrong way driving incidents, resulting in numerous injuries and deaths. The trend reflects an overall increase over the last several years, according to AAA. In March of 2021, Chicago’s Eisenhower Expressway experienced two such incidents within thirty minutes of each other….

CHICAGO – The Chicago Park District is conducting a “broad investigation” into complaints that dozens of workers at the city’s pools and beaches regularly committed “sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, workplace violence, and other criminal acts, according confidential reports obtained by WBEZ.  The alleged assaults sometimes involved minors. According to WBEZ,…

NEW YORK – An alleged teenage drunk driver crashed his car in Rockland County, New York early Saturday, killing a 16-year-old passenger and injuring himself and three other passengers. The driver was allegedly speeding on Route 202 in Montebello in a 2003 Jaguar sedan when he lost control and struck a…