If you believe you have a potential personal injury case but have been putting off starting the process, you should know that there are indeed time limits on how long after your injury a lawsuit can be filed. I sometimes …
How do Personal Injury Lawyers Get Paid?
If you have been injured in an accident and are looking for representation, you may be wondering, how do injury lawyers get paid? This is a reasonable thing for a client to wonder at the beginning of any professional relationship, …
Injured at Home – Can I Sue My Landlord?
We’ve all been through a lot of changes in the two years. One of those changes has been spending a lot more time in our homes, and with that comes the increased possibility of becoming injured while in your home. …
Injured While Working from Home: Can You Still Get Workers’ Comp.?
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a lot of changes to our daily lives. For many people, one of those changes is that their office is now a room in their home. Unfortunately, workplace injuries don’t automatically go away now that …
Why Non-Lawyers Shouldn’t Own Law Firms and Why You Should be Concerned About It
Tale as old as time: corporate powers would like us to believe that signing over our rights and protections to them will benefit our community. What’s Going On? Talk of allowing non-lawyers to own law practices is gaining traction in …
Injured in a Hit-and-Run Accident? Here’s What You Should Know.
What’s worse than being injured in a traffic accident? Being injured in a hit-and-run accident. We know that going through the stress and pain of a traffic injury only to watch the other driver cruise away without a word is …
Bike-Rider Injured in Traffic? Here’s What You Should Know.
Here in Chicago, beautiful weather always goes hand-in-hand with people dusting their bikes off from the long winter in the garage and taking them out on the road. Unfortunately, more cyclists on the road means more bicycle-related traffic accidents and …
What COVID-19 Means for Workers’ Compensation
These days, more and more of us here in Illinois are going back to work, but the COVID-19 pandemic, for the time being, isn’t going anywhere. In a time when new questions and answers seem to arise every day, one …
Going Back to Work in the Age of COVID-19
This week, we at the Law Office of Steven A. Sigmond are returning to our downtown office after ten weeks of working from home. We aren’t the only ones – as Illinois and the city of Chicago each move into …
Tanking in Baseball; Suffering in NCAA
IN PRO SPORTS, IT’S LOSE NOW TO WIN LATER; COLLEGE TEAMS HAVE TO WIN NOW TO WIN LATER. As the seasons change from College basketball to Baseball, I’m thinking that something is out of whack. Professional teams are losing on …