Injured in an Uber accident in Chicago? Learn what steps to take after a rideshare crash and how a Chicago Uber accident lawyer can help you recover compensation for medical bills, lost wages, and damages.
Cook County sonar mapping reportedly identified about 270 underwater “anomalies,” many resembling submerged cars. That matters because it suggests a recurring public safety risk, not isolated tragedy. When vehicles enter the Chicago River or Lake Michigan from public roadways, the legal focus often turns to barriers, warnings, lighting, and maintenance. Illinois tort immunity rules shape these claims, but they do not eliminate accountability when safety measures are not maintained.
Differential diagnosis is the backbone of safe and competent medical practice. It is not merely a clinical formality. It is a structured, legally significant process that requires physicians to consider, prioritize, and rule out potential causes of a patient’s symptoms. When a life threatening condition appears on a differential diagnosis, the standard of care requires that it be affirmatively ruled out within a reasonable time frame. Failure to do so may constitute medical negligence.
This white paper examines the legal and medical intersection of differential diagnosis, index of suspicion, and malpractice exposure. It explains how breakdowns in clinical reasoning lead to preventable harm and why such failures frequently form the basis of claims handled by a misdiagnosis lawyer or failure to diagnose lawyer. It also highlights the role of experienced counsel such as Goldberg & Goldberg LLC and trial attorney Ian Alexander in litigating these complex cases.
Birth asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy represent two of the most serious medical conditions associated with preventable birth injury. In Cook County Illinois and throughout Chicago Illinois, these conditions continue to raise both medical and legal concerns when failures in obstetric care contribute to long term neurological damage.
This white paper examines the medical relationship between birth asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, outlines risk factors and standards of care, and discusses how families in Cook County Illinois can seek accountability through experienced legal representation such as Goldberg & Goldberg, LLC. The goal is to provide a clear, evidence based framework for healthcare professionals, legal practitioners, and affected families.
Corporate defendants often rely on a familiar playbook: rotate employees, claim ignorance, and hope the passage of time erases responsibility. But in Illinois, the law does not allow corporations to wipe the slate clean simply by losing or replacing the people who once knew the truth. This is the concept of corporate memory, and it […]
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SEXUAL ABUSE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT Sexual abuse and assault has become an epidemic in Illinois, and nationwide. At Goldberg & Goldberg, LLC, we have vast experience representing the victims of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault, as well other victims of predatory behavior. Our lawyers have represented victims of sexual abuse and assault at the hands […]
In the City of Chicago, there are very few lawyers that have the competency and financial resources to handle a birth injury case. Internet lawyers advertise for birth injury cases in the hopes of referring them to a lawyer that knows what he/she is doing and getting a percentage of the fee. These lawyers do not actually handle their own cases. How do you avoid these lawyers? Ask the right questions.
The Atlantic published an article today in the wake of the accident that caused a pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona. A link to that article can be found here. This is hardly the first incident involving a wrongful death at the hand of a self driving vehicle. In 2016 in Florida, a Tesla operating is auto-pilot mode struck another vehicle and killed the driver. The article asks the question, "What are the legal implications in accidents involving self driving car?" While the answer might seem obvious, there are quite a few factors that will impact the answer.
On May 12, 2011, Irma Sabanovic was on her way to pick up her boyfriend from his job as a DJ at the popular Chicago nightclub, Exit. Somehow she became lost and wound up on Goose Island, an artificial island located in the Chicago River. Goose Island is a heavy industrial area that is […]
