The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to gut the Stream Protection Rule, which prevents coal companies from dumping mining waste into local streams. The environmental regulations on coal mining also required companies to test the quality of water that their mining operations could affect and ...
If you care about the environmentโs impact on our life and health, should you care about whether Judge Neil Gorsuch, who President Trump has just nominated, is approved for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court? Yes. You absolutely should. Hereโs why: (1) Trump has a plan to dismantle environmental r...
New President Trumpโs hostility for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and, really, for environmental protection in general, is well-documented. He thinks global warming/climate change is a โhoaxโ. He thinks that the EPAโs regulations providing clean water for us to drink and clean a...
January 24, 2017 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
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Could the airbag in the automobile you drive, that is supposed to protect you in the event of an accident, seriously harm or even kill you instead? For millions of drivers in the U.S., the unfortunate answer is yes. And many of these people are still unaware of the danger. Millions of Takata airbags...
January 19, 2017 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
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Every year, the General Assembly of Illinois passes new state laws which the Governor signs and approves. This year Illinois will have approximately 200 new laws on the books that could affect a wide range of citizens. A few of the most interesting and important new laws of 2017 are described below....
December 28, 2016 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
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Ice and Snow Injuries and the Partial Immunity of Land Owners The Illinois Supreme Court has recently ruled on a case that could shed some light on the duties and responsibilities of landowners during this frigid weather and the recent snowfall. The case, Murphy-Hylton v. Lieberman Management Servic...
(1) Insurance adjusters are paid employees of the insurance company. They are skilled at negotiation and are advised by experienced insurance company lawyers who know the law. Together, they know all the strategies to keep you from hiring a lawyer and to get you to settle your claim quickly for as l...
โYou know a man by the company he keeps.โ Thatโs what the Ancient Greek storyteller, Aesop, said a long time ago. The expression has survived until today because it makes sense: we all know that there is a lot to be learned about someone by seeing the friends he/she chooses. If Aesop was right...
November 22, 2016 | Collins Law Environmental & Personal Injury Lawyers
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The Illinois Supreme Court recently decided a case that directly affects the amount of time a plaintiff has to file a wrongful death suit after the death occurs. Prior to the case, the statute of limitations proscribed a two-year window for the filing of a lawsuit after a death caused by negligence....
For the last 17 years, I and a team of lawyers have been representing families threatened by TCE contamination in their water supply, in the groundwater underneath their homes, and in the air inside their homes (called โvapor intrusionโ). Recent reports in the media, unfortunately, describe how ...
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