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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) apparently have backtracked on its earlier decision to stop publicly reporting incidents of life-threatening mistakes made by hospitals in their course of treating patients, according to a story that appeared in USA Today (“Feds reverse course, will release hospital mistake data,” Sept. 7, 2014). Federal regulators will resume releasing such data, including mishaps such as leaving foreign objects in patients’ bodies following surgical procedures and misreading of…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices and Associate Editor of the American Bar Association Litigation News, authored an article on a recent decision of the Florida Supreme Court that held caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases are unconstitutional. In Estate of Michelle Evette McCall v. United States, the decision by the highest court in Florida makes it the eighth state in the country to strike down statutorily enacted medical malpractice…

September 15, 2014 By Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Litigation News Contributing Editor – June 2, 2014 A cap on non-economic damages in wrongful death medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional, according to the Florida Supreme Court. Florida becomes the eighth state supreme court to strike down statutorily enacted medical malpractice damage caps. The others are Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Washington, according to the American Association of Justice (AAJ). The Florida legislature approved a…

America’s Elite Trial Lawyers September 11, 2014 Clifford Law Offices is proud to announce that it was named among The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “America’s Elite Trial Lawyers.” In naming the top 50 plaintiffs’ firms in the country, The National Law Journal wrote that it wanted to recognize the efforts of trial lawyers who worked in the past year to obtain verdicts yielding more than $10 billion in recoveries. “The National Law Journal…

Clifford Law Offices welcomes the Hon. Henry R. Simmons (Ret.), former judge of the Cook County Circuit Court. He served for nearly two decades on the bench, including the Law Division. Prior to that time, he was an Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney for 13 years. Just prior to his joining the firm, he worked as a Certified Mediator with ADR Systems of America, one of the most highly respected mediation firms in the country….

Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, one of the nation’s most renowned personal injury and wrongful death law firms, has named the Honorable Henry R. Simmons (Ret.) as the new Managing Partner of the firm. 312.899.9090.

A recent assessment performed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed that 96 percent of all children aged 2-5 years are exposed to food dyes, including Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1, according to Food Safety News. Although there has been no formal, causal link established between the intake of synthetic food dyes and adverse health effects, researchers have suspected for more than 40 years that the over-consumption of synthetic food dyes is…

Press Release September 2, 2014 Clifford Law Offices files first lawsuit arising out of bus crash at O’Hare Airport. Clifford Law Offices filed late this afternoon (Sept. 2, 2014) a personal injury lawsuit against the bus company and bus driver allegedly involved in Friday’s crash at O’Hare Airport that left numerous people severely injured. Ms. Charles of Waukegan was one of at least a dozen people who were on the shuttle bus that crashed into…

As part of an effort to force healthcare providers into providing a higher quality of care to their patients, the Affordable Care Act allows the federal government to penalize hospitals for having to readmit too many patients within thirty days of their initial release, according to an article in the August 18, 2014 edition of Crain’s Chicago Business. In the article, entitled “Medicare to Ding 120 Illinois Hospitals Over Readmission,” author Andrew Wang revealed that in 2015…