Personal Injury

Every year, thousands of workers across the United States are severely injured on the job, sometimes with catastrophic consequences for themselves and their families. The majority of construction accidents are preventable. If you are hurt while working with construction equipment, knowing the steps to take directly following an incident can help you minimize injury and protect your legal rights. Working on a construction site typically means long days operating heavy and complex equipment including bulldozers,…

A very sad start to the July 4th holiday weekend with news of the tragic death of a five-year-old after she apparently drowned Friday afternoon (June 30, 2023) at the Tinley Park-Park District pool. News reports are coming in of the young girl being underwater for an unknown period of time, despite the reported presence of lifeguards and rescuers attempting to resuscitate her. Bradley Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke to NBC reporter Natalie…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke about the legal ramifications of the disaster that killed five in a submersible attempting to view the Titanic shipwreck. He spoke at at 1:10 pm on Saturday, June 24, 2023, where he answered questions from listeners about the so-called Titan sub that experts are saying imploded under the sea, killing its occupants instead of conducting its 10-hour scheduled trip that was set to…

Clifford Law Offices has earned places on several of Expertise.com’s 2023 lists, including the Best Personal Injury Lawyers list as well as the Best Litigation Attorneys list in Chicago. Expertise chose Clifford Law Offices as one of the top 30 Personal Injury Law Firms in the Chicagoland area out of 1,991 firms. Expertise also evaluated 705 Litigation Firms and selected Clifford Law Offices as one of the top 30. Expertise.com carefully selects recipients based on…

Two downstate Illinois state representatives are working to create a Warehouse Safety Standards Task Force in the wake of the deadly structural collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville during a tornado in December 2021. Reps. Katie Stuart (D-Edwardsville) and Jay Hoffman (D-Swansea) are working to create a task force “aimed at developing recommendations to make similar workplaces safer moving forward,” according to a press release they jointly released yesterday. Six people were killed when…

When are drug ads to be believed and who is controlling their verbiage? It should be the job of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but how carefully is it overseeing drug studies versus mere puffery? Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, examines some recent cases through the eyes of Prevagen, a highly advertised drug that touts memory improvement. To read the column that appeared in the November-December issue of…

On December 6, 2022, Clifford Law Offices obtained a record $4.067 million settlement in the state of Illinois on behalf of a 64-year-old man who suffered a fractured hip when he was struck by a forklift driven by a driver with admitted obstructed vision. Raymond Mockus of Orland Park, Illinois, was working on Nov. 17, 2020, at the Ardagh Metal Beverage USA Inc. plant in Valparaiso, Indiana, when a forklift struck him causing a right…

Truck Crash Injures St. Ignatius Hockey Team; Driver’s Record and Knowledge of Company Executives May Become Critical Issue At least 16 members of the St. Ignatius Prep High School junior varsity hockey team were injured Saturday, November 12, 2022, when a semi-truck driver slammed into their school bus after the team played in Culver, Indiana, near South Bend. The media reports that the truck driver from New York is being held in police custody pending chemical…

Clifford Law Offices once again ranks among the top Illinois law firms in the Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s annual settlement survey, listed as number two in the 2022 Jury Verdict Reporter Settlement Report. The list, published in the October/November issue of the magazine, reflects the firm’s total secured settlements of $500,000 or more within the state over the 12-month period from August 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022. Totaling just over $110 million across 32 reported…