Topic: Illinois

ER transfer-time "rules" may not be useful

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Illinois hospitals often don't meet a state-mandated goal of transferring seriously injured patients to a more appropriate facility within two hours -- but patients don't appear to suffer as a result, a new study concludes. The findings ...
2 men die after getting trapped inside grain bin in NW Illinois; 3rd in serious conditionAuthorities say two young men have died and another is in serious condition after becoming trapped inside a grain bin in northwestern Illinois.The Carroll County sheriff's department ...

Personal Injury Claim Time Limits

A personal injury is a mental or physical injury that is caused by negligence or a harmful act. The most common types of accidents that result in personal injury are: dog bites, automobile accidents, toxic exposure, wrongful death, and aviation disasters to ...
Explosion at Ill. factory sends debris flying a quarter mile, killing truck driverFlying debris from an explosion at a northern Illinois technology plant killed a man nearly a quarter of a mile away.Illinois Tollway spokeswoman Joelle McGinnis says the man died Monday ...