The typical fee arrangement between a personal injury lawyer, and the personal injury victim or client, is a contingency fee agreement. The contingency fee agreement means that the lawyer only gets a fee if the client wins a case, if the client obtains compensation, or is paid in the case. If there is no [...]
A family is suing a nursing home after their mother died following a fall in her nursing home. The woman, 87-year-old Fannye Doris Holden Scruggs Rorer was an amputee with only one eye who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. She was a resident of Woodhaven Hall at Williamsburg Landing in Williamsburg, VA for five years. On [...]
Gainsberg Law P.C. is proud to announce that Wynetta McIntosh is the 2018 winner of the Gainsberg Law Annual Scholarship Award! This extraordinary Chicago native will be attending law school this fall at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, having earned her B.A. in Sociology/English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May of 2018. A woman [...]
If you were in an accident with a driver that does not have insurance, you can bring a lawsuit or sue that driver for your damages, for your injuries, or property damage as well. Unfortunately, most drivers that do not have insurance do not have money to compensate you. So, most insurance policies that you [...]
As of this writing, no one seems to know exactly how many children have been separated from their parents at the border between Mexico and the U.S. The only thing we do know is that family separations are devastating, and countless pieces have been written about how angry, frustrated, hopeless and scared so many of [...]
Summer is here, and Chicago locals and tourists alike are ready to get outside and enjoy the weather. One of Chicago's major attractions is sightseeing boat tours. Boat tours are a booming industry, with tour companies like Wendella River Experience, Seadog Cruises, Mercury Cruises, Shoreline Cruises, and the Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise. With the [...]
If you were in an accident and were wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, you may have a claim for any and all injuries that occurred to your body. That includes a head injury, or even a serious brain injury. Just because you were wearing a helmet while you were in this [...]
On June 20, 2018, at around 10:30pm, a mother and her three-year-old son were walking on the sidewalk in Bronzeville when a Jeep turned a corner on Michigan Ave. Unfortunately, there was a Nissan driving in the opposite direction on Michigan at the time, and the Jeep driver failed to yield. In an attempt to [...]
Summer's here—which means it's time for a new bottle of sunscreen. You can purchase sunscreen as a lotion, a cream, or a spray. Recently, you may have noticed in some stores or online shops “sunscreen pills” for sale, and you may even have been tempted to give them a try. Don't. The FDA recently released [...]
If you were injured because of a jet ski accident, you may have specific rights or remedies against a variety of individuals or entities. You may have rights against the driver of another vehicle that may have caused your jet ski accident. You may have rights against the jet ski company if the jet ski [...]
