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La ciudad de Chicago ha realizado un esfuerzo concertado en los últimos años para hacer más seguro el cruce de calles para los peatones. La ciudad ha añadido extensiones de acera en los cruces peatonales, más señalización, ha pintado franjas tipo “cebra” en la calle y, en algunos casos, ha…
The city of Chicago has made a concerted effort in recent year to make it safer for pedestrians to cross the street. The City has added pedestrian bump outs at crosswalks, more signage, painted zebras across the street and in some cases flashing lights. The Chicago personal injury lawyers of…
Chicago winters are notorious for snow and ice and with them comes a sharp rise in slip-and-fall injuries. While many people assume that any fall on ice automatically creates a lawsuit, Illinois law draws important distinctions about who may be liable, where the fall occurred, and whether the accumulation was…
Chicago has been investing heavily in pedestrian safety by installing newly built medians and pedestrian refuge islands across busy roadways. These changes are designed to slow traffic and give pedestrians a safer place to cross and in many ways, they do exactly that. But there’s an unintended consequence many drivers…
The polar vortex has arrived in Chicago. When temperatures plunge to around zero, driving conditions can become dangerous fast, even on roads that look clear. Extreme cold creates unique hazards that increase the risk of serious crashes, injuries, and multi-vehicle accidents across the city and surrounding suburbs. The personal injury…
Recently, I was driving home at night in a heavy rain storm. I was driving under the speed limit and keeping sharp attention to the road way because visibility was was a problem with the heavy rain, wind shield wipers furiously clearing the windshield and the glare of the on…
By Zneimer & Zneimer P.C., Chicago Pedestrian Injury Lawyers Chicago has invested heavily in pedestrian safety in recent years. You see it everywhere: curb bump-outs, high-visibility crosswalks, pedestrian refuge islands, and redesigned intersections meant to slow cars and protect people on foot. People are encouraged to cross at crosswalks but…
Trucking cases turn on paper, data, and the consistent systems that a motor carrier must run every day and then produce when something goes wrong. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations require carriers to preserve and produce safety-related records, and they also require cooperation during investigations. A carrier must make accident records…
When a commercial truck is involved in an accident, the collision happens in seconds. The accountability fight may last months or years. One regulation often decides whether the injured person can identify the right defendants quickly enough to preserve evidence and build a clean liability story. 49 CFR 390.21T requires…
In trucking cases physics matters, but evidence often decides the outcome. The federal regulations, 49 CFR Part 390 include a set of record rules that sound administrative, but are important for trucking injury litigation. This requirement drives operational behavior. A compliant carrier trains safety staff to maintain centralized records or…