Chicago Injury Blog

Chicago – Attorneys at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, have considerable experience in representing victims and families in situations where nursing home abuses have occurred leading to serious injuries.

Nursing home abuse occurs when the resident is physically abused, raped or sexually assaulted, over-sedated, or subjected to verbal and/or emotional abuse in nursing homes. Abuse in nursing homes can be hard to detect, since many nursing home residents have trouble communicating and may have sporadic family support.

Chicago – Investigators have found that a state-of-the-art brain imaging method may be useful for detecting and monitoring mild traumatic brain injury, a controversial diagnosis that is based largely on a patient’s subjective experience, reports attorneys at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC.

The phrase traumatic brain injury tends to conjure the worst case scenario of a patient who suffers severe brain damage leading to severe disabilities, coma or death. However, most traumatic brain injuries are classified as mild. A mild traumatic brain injury typically involves symptoms of brain damage (such as mood changes or confusion), but no sign of damage based on a neurological exam or standard brain imaging techniques.

This definition complicates diagnosis. Some patients are told nothing is wrong with them.

Chicago – Workers’ Compensation is the name given to a system of laws meant to protect injured workers. The goal, according to attorneys at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, is to make sure that somebody who is injured at work receives appropriate medical care, lost wages relating to the on-the-job injury, and, if necessary, retraining and rehabilitation, so as to be able to return to the workforce.
When workers are killed on the job, members of the workers' families are ordinarily eligible for benefits. A good source of information is in our brochure posted on our website at http://www.rblaw.net

CHICAGO – Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, congratulates members of the Illinois House of Representatives for their unanimous approval vote on a bill that would sharply raise standards of care and safety, and reduce personal injuries, in the state’s troubled nursing homes. Similar support is expected from the state Senate.

Chicago – According to the law firm of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, some 4,000 people die from fires and burns each year. This total includes an estimated 3,500 deaths from residential fires and 500 from motor vehicle and aircraft crashes, contact with electricity, chemicals or hot liquids and substances, and other sources of burn injury.

About 75% of these deaths occur at the scene of the incident or during initial transport. Fire and burn deaths are combined because deaths from burns in fires cannot always be distinguished from deaths which result from smoke poisoning.

Chicago –Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem, especially among male adolescents and young adults ages 15 to 24, and among elderly people of both sexes 75 years and older, according to attorneys at Romanucci & Blandin, LLC. Children aged 5 and younger are also at high risk for TBI.

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