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Electric scooters are rising in popularity around the world as a convenient and fun means of transportation. However, the increase in their use has also seen an increase in serious and fatal injury accidents of riders. Rising numbers For pedestrians and public transit commuters alike, the e-scooter provides a means for quicker, more convenient…

Rollovers account for only about 3% of all major vehicle accidents in the U.S. However, they are the cause of roughly 30% of all passenger fatalities. Many people die when they are partially or fully ejected from the vehicle during a rollover. If the victims survive, they may have to endure catastrophic, life-altering injuries….

When you go to a hospital, you expect to receive the best care possible. However, depending on the exact hospital you go to, you could face a greater risk of suffering from medical malpractice.  The Leapfrog Group recently released its finding of potentially dangerous hospitals in the Chicago area. The study found that five hospitals…

A DeKalb County jury entered a record verdict for almost $6,000,000 on Tuesday afternoon for a 33 year-old Winnebago man injured when the aerial lift he was working on failed causing him to fall 20-25 feet. In September 2015, 29 year-old Jeremy Heckelsmiller was hired to remove a chimney on a rental property in…

Gill Ports Hoste LLC recently filed suit on behalf of the surviving husband and children of Corina Miller. Corina was a 41-year-old woman who lived in Wyoming, Illinois. She died on July 11, 2017 when the Jeep vehicle she was driving on a country road struck and went under a tanker trailer that was…

Last week, the firm filed suit on behalf of Daniel Sopocy’s children in Lake County. Daniel died from traumatic head injuries he sustained after the Beachbody P90X Chin Up Bar he was using in the family home disengaged from its mounting place over a doorway. He fell to the concrete floor and struck his…

PGP is very glad to be a sponsor of one of the world’s great amateur golf tournaments this summer at Point O’ Woods Golf and Country Club in Benton Harbor, MI. This will be the 117th playing of The Western Amateur tournament and the forty-first time that Point O’ Woods has hosted the event.

In an unusual case of medical negligence by a hospital-owned urgent care center, an Idaho man suffered a catastrophic spinal injury due to medical negligence. The malpractice incident by a local urgent care center’s medical providers and their failure to follow protocol resulted in the man’s paralysis from the waist down. People who have…

A 35-year-old electrician learned he had a cancerous lesion in his right kidney in March 2016. He was referred to a urologist who told him and his wife that he required survival removal of the kidney, a nephrectomy. The urologist told them the cancer was Stage I, it would not require chemo or radiation…

Some of us in the office love to garden. Some of us have used Roundup in the past, but won’t any more in light of recent scientific evidence and jury verdicts finding a link between Roundup’s active ingredient and certain cancers. See below: Jury rules Bayer must pay California man more than $80 million…