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  • Chicago Personal Injury Blog Posts: Car Accident

    Chicago Personal Injury News Brief 3/19/2013

    [ March 19, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Car Accident, Catastrophic Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Chicago Personal Injury News Brief, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Mass Transit Injury, Negligence, Personal Injury, Train Accident, Workplace Injury, Wrongful Death ]

    March 19, 2013 Ex-Youth Pastor Accused Of Assaulting Teen From Church For Nearly 7 Years: The former youth pastor of a suburban Chicago church has been accused of sexually assaulting a teen girl from his own congregation, starting when he was the girl’s counselor, according to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office. Darin Evans, 41, the [...]

    Chicago Personal Injury News Brief 3/18/2013

    [ March 18, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Bus Accident, Car Accident, Catastrophic Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Chicago Personal Injury News Brief, Head Injury, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Mass Transit Injury, Motor Vehicle Defects, Motorcycle Accident, Negligence, Personal Injury, Police Brutality, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Subway Accident, Train Accident, Wrongful Death ]

    March 18, 2013 Plane Crash Kills Two: The flight crew of a jet that crashed into a South Bend, Indiana home yesterday did not survive. Former Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis and and friend Wes Caves, a Tulsa, Okla., businessman perished in the fiery crash. Suburban Cop Bail Set At $500,000 Bond In Deadly Collision: A judge set [...]

    Six Teenagers killed in Fatal Car Accident

    [ March 11, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Car Accident, Catastrophic Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Motor Vehicle Defects, Motorcycle Accident, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death ]

    Investigators were determining if excessive speed played a roll in yesterdays fatal crash in rural Ohio. The SUV carrying eight people smashed into a guardrail and flipped over into a pond, killing five boys and the young female driver. The crash occurred around 7 a.m. Sunday on a two-lane road just south of this industrial [...]

    Chicago Personal Injury News Brief 3/11/2013

    [ March 11, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Car Accident, Catastrophic Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Chicago Personal Injury News Brief, Motor Vehicle Defects, Negligence, Personal Injury, Police Brutality, Wrongful Death ]

    March 11, 2013 City Council Approves 3 Police Misconduct Settlements: Settlements have been approved by a city council committee in three more cases of Chicago police misconduct. Settlements have been approved by a city council committee in three more cases of Chicago police misconduct. The family of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd, who was fatally shot by a police [...]

    Chicago Personal Injury News Brief 3/6/2013

    [ March 6, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Car Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Chicago Personal Injury News Brief, Mass Transit Injury, Negligence, Personal Injury, Subway Accident, Train Accident, Workplace Injury, Wrongful Death ]

    March 6, 2013 CTA Blue Line Reopens after Track Fire: CTA Blue Line trains were delayed at the Belmont station Tuesday evening. Service resumed soon after with some delays, according to the CTA’s Twitter account. There were reports of smoke from a track fire at the Belmont Blue Line station, according to a CTA spokesperson. [...]

    Chicago Personal Injury News Brief 2/28/2013

    [ February 28, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Bicycle Injury, Bus Accident, Car Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Chicago Personal Injury News Brief, Mass Transit Injury, Motor Vehicle Defects, Motorcycle Accident, Negligence, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Product Liability ]

    February 28, 2013 Auto Fatalities on the Rise for  the first time in 7 years: Deaths from auto accidents have risen more than 7 percent. The hike in fatalities in blamed on more Americans driving and an older average car age. Read the full report here. 

    Why Auto Accident Fatalities are on the Rise

    [ February 28, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Bicycle Injury, Bus Accident, Car Accident, Catastrophic Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Head Injury, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Mass Transit Injury, Motor Vehicle Defects, Motorcycle Accident, Negligence, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Wrongful Death ]

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its preliminary statistics for car crash fatalities in the first 9 months of 2012. The results are quite shocking, the rate of car crash fatalities has increased more than 7 percent, the highest increase since 1975. In fact what is even more striking is that deaths related [...]

    4 Things you Should Know About Mass Transit Accidents & Safety

    [ February 28, 2013 | Jay Paul Deratany | Posted in Airplane Accident, Bus Accident, Car Accident, Catastrophic Accident, Chicago, Chicago Personal Injury Attorney, Featured, Head Injury, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Mass Transit Injury, Motor Vehicle Defects, Negligence, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Subway Accident, Train Accident, Wrongful Death ]

    As more and more people take mass transit the safety and reliability of its many aspects is always in focus. From airplanes, to trains, to bus service here are 4 things you may not have known: 1: Statistics According to the annual report by The American Public Transportation Association, “Public transportation was provided in the United States [...]

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    Case results in Chicago ILA Lake County jury awarded the parents of a brain injured child $23.3 million due to the negligence of the hospital employees responsible for monitoring his fetal heart rate prior to birth.

    The Deratany Firm was able to prove that had the baby been delivered just 15 minutes earlier, he would not have...

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