Category: Premises Liability Blog

WASHINGTON D.C. (September 18, 2020) – The Uber test driver who was responsible for monitoring one of the company’s self-driving cars that hit and killed a pedestrian in 2018 was charged with negligent homicide this week. According to a National Transportation Safety Board investigation, Rafaela Vasquez was watching TV on her smartphone…

CHICAGO (March 30, 2020) – The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted the every day lives of Americans from coast to coast. Many people have had to cancel weddings, vacations, and other large gatherings to comply with local shelter in place orders. One group of people who have been seriously impacted by…

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (March 19, 2020) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Illinois has 128 newly confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, including 24 new infections at a Willowbrook nursing home that already reported nearly two dozen cases. DuPage County Health Department officials said that as of Wednesday, all residents and staff at…

CAROL STREAM, Ill. (January 21, 2020) – Officials are investigating three cases of Legionnaires’ disease — two of them fatal — at a retirement home in Carol Stream, Illinois. The DuPage County Health Department says two residents of the Covenant Living of Windsor Park retirement home have died “from a…

By: Casey Clark CHICAGO (July 17, 2019) – A new theory suggests alcohol may be to blame for the 11 mysterious tourist deaths in the Dominican Republic. At least nine of the deaths involve very similar circumstances. Similarities between the recent deaths include three of the Americans died at the…

SAN JUAN (July 9, 2019) – An 18-month-old baby died over the weekend after she slipped from her grandfather’s hands and fell from the eleventh story of a docked cruise ship. Media outlets report the child was being carried by her grandfather when he slipped and dropped her overboard from…

CHICAGO (June 21, 2019) – At least ten American citizens have died in the Dominican Republic over the past year. Officials have not said the deaths are connected, but there are several similarities between them. Three of the Americans died at the Bahia Principe resort in La Romana within days…

CHICAGO (June 13, 2019) – As the weather heats up in the Chicago area, more people will be flocking to pools and water parks to beat the heat and keep the kids busy this summer. While water parks and pools are great places for family fun during the summer months,…

CHICAGO (June 10, 2019) – Another American tourist has died while vacationing in the Dominican Republic, bringing the total of mysterious deaths to six and prompting an investigation by the FBI. According to a report from the New York Post, 67-year-old Robert Bell Wallace died after drinking a scotch from the minibar…

CHICAGO (April 24, 2019) – With prom season in full swing in Chicago, police are on heightened alert for underage drinking. Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard P.C. attorney Brian L. Salvi is sharing some important reminders to keep teens safe, and parents and guardians out of legal trouble this prom and…