Illinois Injury Law Blog


This blawg features coverage, news and information about car accidents, wrongful death, workers' compensation, nursing home abuse and medical malpractice.

Author: Kris Briggs practices at VanPopering Law Offices in Chicago.

Blawg Related Categories: Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Medical Malpractice • States • Illinois • Solo / Small Firm • Workers Compensation

Recent Posts from Illinois Injury Law Blog


  • Five people hurt in Chicago Crash With CTA Bus

    Four Chicago Transit Authority passengers and the bus operator were among those who sought medical attention after a CTA bus was rear-ended by a car outside Douglas Park on Chicago’s West Side. Two of the…

  • Chicago Woman Injured in Accident After Crash in South Loop

    A car crashed into a pole on Roosevelt Rd near Canal St in Chicago’s South Loop, then flipped over. The female driver was transported in serious to critical condition after the crash to Northwestern Memorial…

  • Chicago Teens with Cars Are At Greater Risk for Accidents

    Teens with their own cars or free use of a car are much more likely to get in crashes than those who share a car. And crashes are much less common among teens whose parents…

  • Chicago Hit and Run Accident Charged to Waukegan Driver

    A Waukegan, IL driver has been charged in connection with a deadly hit and run crash that killed Patty Kuntz, 45, of Aurora. Frederick Washington, 24, is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal…

  • Police Looking Into Fatal Car Accident in South Shore

    Chicago police are looking into an overnight fatal car accident in the South Shore neighborhood that may have involved a stolen vehicle. On August 17, 2009, at about 12:30 a.m., a Chevrolet SUV with four…

  • Chicago Car Accident Result of Elderly Driver

    An elderly Chicago man was cited for failing to yield and failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident August 25, after a Cadillac struck his Toyota Camry at the intersection of Harlem Avenue and…

  • Chicago Woman Crashes Car Into Health Club, Injuring 2

    Police say a 65-year-old woman crashed her car through glass windows and into a suburban Chicago health and fitness club this past weekend. The crash happened July 18, 2009 at a Chicago-area Curves club in…

  • Five Hurt in Chicago Southwest Side Two-Car Crash

    One person was rushed to Loyala University Health System in Chicago, Illinois, with a severed arm in the wake of a car accident the morning of July 19, 2009 in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on…

  • Chicago Officer Injured in Car Accident

    A Chicago Police officer on his way to work landed in the hospital as a result of a traffic accident in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. Photo by jonjon_01 About 8:45 a.m.…

  • Driver Cited for I-290 Car, Train Collision

    Service along the CTA’s Blue Line came back on schedule after an accident between a car and a train the early morning of June 11, 2009. Police suspect that wet and slick conditions on the…