Imagine that you’re about to undergo a surgical procedure. You’re anesthetized, but you feel confident because you’ve put yourself in the hands of a doctor you believe you can trust. Furthermore, the hospital where your procedure is taking place has state-of-the-art technology equipment.

What you don’t see is that the computer screen your physician and attending nurses are focused on is one for their own personal use. Examples include a doctor who makes personal calls on his smartphone during a procedure and a nurse checking airfares during surgery on her iPad or even ...

You’re a parent who wants to strengthen the ties with your newborn by bringing the baby into bed with you. The last thing you want or expect is for the baby to die, but records show that accidental bed-sharing deaths due to strangulation and suffocation are increasing.

We applaud the Chicago Tribune for its front-page feature on this important issue. The story reveals that between 1984 and 2004, these accidental deaths quadrupled nationally. In Illinois, of the 320 sleep-related infant deaths investigated by state Child Death Review Teams between 2008 and 2010, almost 60 percent ...

We all know that skiing, sledding and skating are fun, healthy winter sports, but they have the potential to cause severe personal injuries unless proper safety precautions are practiced. Common injuries from falls include sprains and muscle strains, dislocations, fractures and even brain injuries.

The U.S. Product Safety Commission reports that in 2010, more than 440,000 people were treated in hospitals, doctors’ offices and emergency rooms for winter sports-related injuries.

Snow-skiing and snowboarding injuries accounted for the most injuries. Sledding and ...

Many of my friends and colleagues know that I chose personal injury law as a profession because of the traumatic brain injury my best friend in high school suffered while playing football.

Due in part to the impact of that incident and my growing knowledge of how dangerous a sport football is, I refused to let my son, now in college, play high school football. The last thing I wanted was for him to be so talented that he would become a professional football player.

A story in the December issue of Sports Illustrated backs up that assumption. The magazine checked on the members of the 1986 ...