Top Rating for DUI Laws-DUI Accident Attorneys Lake County Illinois

Robert Edens ‘Bob’ is an award winning auto accident attorney with over 20 years of experience fighting for auto accident injury victims. His law firm will provide you with the legal advice you NEED to answer your questions and explain your options.

MADD LogoMothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) gave Illinois a five out of five star rating on their efforts to crack down on DUI car crashes. Since 2006 MADD has been publishing The Report; a report that rates every state on their efforts to reduce drunk driving and drunk driving accidents and deaths. While substantial progress has been made, there will always be work to be done until there are no more victims of drunk drivers. The Report rates the nation three-stars on a five-star scale (based on the average of the state ratings). In addition, updated figures show that drunk driving costs the United States more than $132 billion annually.


 

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Award Winning Author and Attorney Bob Edens’ Book, “The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,” ™ is a Step-by-Step Guide for Personal Injury Victims

In The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,™ Bob explains the ins and outs of the injury claims process from the time of injury to the time of settlement or trial. Bob provides basic facts about:

  • The filing of the claim and negotiation from start to finish.
  • How to negotiate a settlement for injuries sustained from a wide variety of cases including all types of auto accidents, dog bite cases, pedestrian cases, etc.
  • Tips on how to deal with adjusters and avoiding the pitfalls and traps they hope you fall into.
  • Tips on how to determine the value of your injuries.
  • An overview of questions and legal issues that most personal injury victims have.

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Nursing Home Wandering Lawsuit-Elder Abuse & Neglect Law Firm

Robert Edens ‘Bob’ is an award winning nursing home neglect and abuse attorney with over 20 years of experience fighting for the elderly who’s care has been entrusted to a facility. His law firm will provide you with the legal advice you NEED to answer your questions and explain your options. 

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Nursing Home Wandering Neglect and AbuseWandering is one of the most intriguing, potentially, hazardous, and least understood behaviors amongst the elders in nursing homes. Additionally, it has been poorly defined and is very ambiguous despite that it is a very common occurrence of elderly patients whose care has been entrusted to a facility to keep them safe.

The reason it is so difficult to define “wandering” from a legal perspective is that it is a somewhat purposeful behavior, at least to the wanderer, yet it is often initiated by a cognitively impaired or disoriented individual. As a result, wanderers place themselves in hazardous situations that a cognitively intact persons would avoid. For the purposes of litigation, the wandering of a nursing home resident should be thought of as behavior that should be reduced or eliminated at all times.

At a minimum the standard of care at a nursing home must identify wanderers, develop prevention programs and activities, keep the facility safe, and have a swift, comprehensive, facility-wide method to mobilize staff to look for a missing resident. Expert testimony often is critical to successful litigation against nursing homes.

Known Tendency to Wander

If the nursing home is aware of a patient’s predisposition to wander it is more likely to give rise to liability. Recovery has been allowed, for example, where a nursing home was aware of wandering and failed to take proper precautions, the facility may be found liable for any subsequent injury or death.

Golden Villa Nursing Home v. Smith, Texas.A motorcycle struck a nursing home resident who left the facility and wandered onto a highway. A verdict against the facility was handed down, finding that the resident’s long history of wandering put the home on notice of the resident’s known tendency to wander.


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The Rule of 5′s and How THEY will Sabotage Your Case™

An Essential Guide For the Personal Injury Victims

Award Winning Author and Attorney Bob Edens’ Book, “The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,” ™ is a Step-by-Step Guide for Personal Injury Victims

In The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,™ Bob explains the ins and outs of the injury claims process from the time of injury to the time of settlement or trial. Bob provides basic facts about:

  • The filing of the claim and negotiation from start to finish.
  • How to negotiate a settlement for injuries sustained from a wide variety of cases including all types of auto accidents, dog bite cases, pedestrian cases, etc.
  • Tips on how to deal with adjusters and avoiding the pitfalls and traps they hope you fall into.
  • Tips on how to determine the value of your injuries.
  • An overview of questions and legal issues that most personal injury victims have.

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Category: Blog, Medical Malpractice

External Airbags: Vehicle Safety in the Future

Robert T. Edens ‘Bob’ is an award winning Liability attorney with over 20 years of experience fighting for victims of negligent drivers. His law firm will provide you with the legal advice you NEED to answer your questions and explain your options.

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External Airbags: The Future of Vehicle Safety

AirbagOnce upon a time, not too long ago, there were no such things as airbags. Heck, when I was a kid, no one even wore a seatbelt. Then again there were a lot fewer cars on the roads. Fast forward to today….airbags are the norm. They started in the steering columns and dashboards and now include those in the doors and throughout the vehicle—all positioned to lessen the impact of a collision on occupants. Again fast forward into the near future, air bags may soon be deployed from the exterior of the car.


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Get Your Free Book by Clicking HereThe Rule of 5′s and How THEY will Sabotage Your Case™

An Essential Guide For the Personal Injury Victims

Award Winning Author and Attorney Bob Edens’ Book, “The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,” ™ is a Step-by-Step Guide for Personal Injury Victims

In The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,™ Bob explains the ins and outs of the injury claims process from the time of injury to the time of settlement or trial. Bob provides basic facts about:

  • The filing of the claim and negotiation from start to finish.
  • How to negotiate a settlement for injuries sustained from a wide variety of cases including all types of auto accidents, dog bite cases, pedestrian cases, etc.
  • Tips on how to deal with adjusters and avoiding the pitfalls and traps they hope you fall into.
  • Tips on how to determine the value of your injuries.
  • An overview of questions and legal issues that most personal injury victims have.

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External airbags are coming. A CNN special report on the “Future of Driving” says that airbags surrounding the exteriors of vehicles could be triggered when an accident is imminent; absorbing some of the impact before it even reaches your car.

TRW Automotive is the company leading the way in external airbag technology and they claim that the technology will be in some luxury vehicles before the end of the decade.

Category: Blog, Car Accidents, The Law Offices of Robert T. Edens, P.C.

What is Endoscopic Ultrasound and What is it Used For?

Robert Edens ‘Bob’ is an award winning Medical Malpractice attorney with over 20 years of experience fighting for victims of negligent drivers. His law firm will provide you with the legal advice you NEED to answer your questions and explain your options.

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Endoscopic Ultrasound EquipmentEndoscopic ultrasound (EUS) combines endoscopy and ultrasound; this procedure allows a doctor to obtain detailed images of the digestive track. The ultrasound portion uses sound waves thereby creating high quality images of internal organs. The images obtained with EUS are often more accurate and detailed than images provided by traditional ultrasound which must travel from the outside of the body.

EUS is also a less invasive method of performing biopsies and also helps avoid possible damage to surrounding organs.

 

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An Essential Guide For the Personal Injury Victims
Award Winning Author and Attorney Bob Edens’ Book, “The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,” ™ is a Step-by-Step Guide for Personal Injury Victims

In The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,™ Bob explains the ins and outs of the injury claims process from the time of injury to the time of settlement or trial. Bob provides basic facts about:

  • The filing of the claim and negotiation from start to finish.
  • How to negotiate a settlement for injuries sustained from a wide variety of cases including all types of auto accidents, dog bite cases, pedestrian cases, etc.
  • Tips on how to deal with adjusters and avoiding the pitfalls and traps they hope you fall into.
  • Tips on how to determine the value of your injuries.
  • An overview of questions and legal issues that most personal injury victims have.

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Antioch Teen Offered Plea Deal In Drag Race Killing

Robert Edens ‘Bob’ is an award winning motor vehicle accident attorney with over 20 years of experience fighting for victims of negligent drivers. His law firm will provide you with the legal advice you NEED to answer your questions and explain your options.

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Side Impact TotalledA plea agreement has been offered to  Jeremy Betancourt, 18, charged with killing a friend during an illegal street race in Gurnee last June.

The defense attorney for Jeremy met behind closed doors Tuesday with Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti and prosecutors to try to resolve the case before it goes to trial March 31.

Neither side would discuss the details of the proposal, but defense attorney Jed Stone said “progress was made” during the 10-minute meeting.

Stone has previously said there are “extraordinary circumstances” surrounding the case and, therefore, Betancourt should be sentenced to probation rather than prison.

Prosecutors have said previously that any deal would involve a judge determining a sentence for Betancourt during a hearing.

Betancourt faces charges of aggravated driving under the influence and reckless homicide for the June 24 crash that killed 16-year-old Cynthia Perez, a student at Antioch High School.

Betancourt, of the 41000 block of Circle Drive in Antioch Township, was driving erratically during the illegal street race on Route 120 in Gurnee when his Honda slid into the center median ditch, went airborne and rolled over, authorities said.

Perez was not wearing a seat belt in the back seat of the vehicle and fell out of the rear window when the vehicle flipped. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Betancourt and two other passengers were treated and released from Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.

Betancourt was initially charged with reckless homicide and aggravated street racing, but an aggravated driving under the influence charge was added after test results showed he had marijuana in his system.

He was released on $100,000 bail so he could enroll in a substance and behavioral assistance program. Betancourt has been released from a Lake Villa treatment center, but remains at home on 24-hour curfew.


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Personal Injury Attorney Lake County ILThe Rule of 5′s and How THEY will Sabotage Your Case™

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Award Winning Author and Attorney Bob Edens’ Book, “The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,” ™ is a Step-by-Step Guide for Personal Injury Victims

In The Rule of 5’s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,™ Bob explains the ins and outs of the injury claims process from the time of injury to the time of settlement or trial. Bob provides basic facts about:

  • The filing of the claim and negotiation from start to finish.
  • How to negotiate a settlement for injuries sustained from a wide variety of cases including all types of auto accidents, dog bite cases, pedestrian cases, etc.
  • Tips on how to deal with adjusters and avoiding the pitfalls and traps they hope you fall into.
  • Tips on how to determine the value of your injuries.
  • An overview of questions and legal issues that most personal injury victims have.

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Category: Blog, Car Accidents, The Law Offices of Robert T. Edens, P.C.

Can a Minor Be Sued In Illinois?

Robert Edens ‘Bob’ is an award-winning Lake County motor vehicle accident attorney with over 20 years of experience fighting for victims of negligent drivers. His Antioch personal injury law firm will provide you with the legal advice you NEED to answer your questions and explain your options.

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lawsuitThe question of whether or not a minor can be sued does not have a straightforward answer. It is not as simple as the question “can you enforce a contract with a minor?” Which is a simple no.

Laws vary from state to state. According to the Illinois State Bar Association, the first distinction is the age of majority vs. the age of a minor. It varies for individual situations. For example, a person 18 years of age is able to vote, join the military, and enter into contracts but not purchase or consume alcohol. Additionally, a 16-year-old who has obtained a driver’s license can be held responsible for injuries or property damages if they are found to be at fault for a car accident.

However, in any case, in which a minor cannot be sued, their parent(s) or the person that is legally responsible for them can be, and often is. If you, or your minor child, have had a civil lawsuit filed against them, I highly suggest consulting an attorney. This is a gray area of the law and you need an experienced attorney to protect the rights of both the minor child and their guardian(s). Please call me for a free case evaluation today.

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Personal Injury Attorney Lake County ILThe Rule of 5s and How THEY will Sabotage Your Case™

An Essential Guide For the Personal Injury Victims

Award Winning Author and Attorney Bob Edens’ Book, “The Rule of 5s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,” ™ is a Step-by-Step Guide for Personal Injury Victims

In The Rule of 5s and How THEY Will Sabotage Your Case,™ Bob explains the ins and outs of the injury claims process from the time of injury to the time of settlement or trial. Bob provides basic facts about:

  • The filing of the claim and negotiation from start to finish.
  • How to negotiate a settlement for injuries sustained from a wide variety of cases including all types of auto accidents, dog bite cases, pedestrian cases, etc.
  • Tips on how to deal with adjusters and avoid the pitfalls and traps they hope you fall into.
  • Tips on how to determine the value of your injuries.
  • An overview of questions and legal issues that most personal injury victims have.

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(Updated 8/26/2022)

131 New Pages Devoted Solely to Medical Malpractice – Law Firm

If You Still Have Questions Please Call 847-395-2200As baby boomers increase in age, so is the likelihood that medical mistakes and errors will also increase. Couple this with the vast number of newly insured people through the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) and medical staff will be spread more thinly then they ever have in the past.

It is currently estimated that deaths caused by medical and hospital mistakes is the third leading cause of deaths in America, only beat out by heart disease (1st) and cancer (2nd). This is something every citizen in this country needs to be concerned with. That is why I have added the largest section I have ever written and posted online solely devoted to the following medical malpractice cases.

If you, or a loved one, has needlessly suffered due to a medical mistake call Bob Edens today at 847-395-2200 for a free, honest, no pressure or obligation case evaluation. Nearly all of his cases are taken on a contingency basis; meaning if you don’t win, you owe nothing!

Category: Blog, Medical Malpractice, The Law Offices of Robert T. Edens, P.C.