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Category: Illinois Personal Injury Lawyers
Improved Protections for All Investors: It’s About Time
Improved Protections for All Investors Changes target financial adviser conflicts of interest and require all advisors to adhere to a “fiduciary standard,” the legal term for putting customers’ interests first and above all else. Brokers and other professionals had previously had to make sure that their recommendations were “suitable,” a much …
Category: Nursing Home Abuse
New Laws Protect Older Residents
New Laws Protect Older Residents A law that went into effect in January, 2016 allows surveillance cameras to be installed in the rooms of long-term care facilities’ residents, making Illinois only the fifth state in the country to offer seniors and disabled adults this added protection against neglect and abuse. Under the law, residents (and their …
Category: Fatal Work Incidents
Workers Killed on the Job Honored Today for International Workers’ Memorial Day [Infographic]
Working people should not have to risk their lives to make a living and support their families… Yet every day, millions of Americans are forced to work with little to no safety protections while big businesses and corporations profit off our lives. - AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka1 On a weekly basis, at least 1,000 Americans are killed on the job. T …
Category: Insurance Claims
Whose Side is Your Auto Insurance Carrier Really On?
The risks of relying on insurers when pursuing financial recovery following auto crashes We receive calls on a near daily basis to our law office with questions from drivers or passengers of cars who have been negligently injured by other drivers. As strange as it may seem, some of the largest auto insurance carriers (and most commonly on the TV and …