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The personal injury attorneys at Clifford Law Offices have handled class actions for over three decades. At the current time, there are several class actions in which the firm is involved, three of which the firm has been designated lead or co-lead counsel. Class action lawsuits allow for claims relating to common issues or facts that would otherwise be too small to litigate individually, to proceed in state or federal court, depending upon the nature…

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Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, participated in a panel on “Beginning with the End in Mind – Classic Chicago Closings” at the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Others on the panel included the Hon. Virginia Kendall and Hon. Jorge L. Alonso, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and Carrie Hamilton, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago and now a Cook County Circuit Court…

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It is being reported that Coumadin, the popular prescription blood thinning drug, is a particular problem in nursing homes and requires careful calibration in that too much can cause uncontrolled bleeding and too little threatens the development of life-threatening clots. A story in the Washington Post reported that at least 165 nursing homes residents were hospitalized or died following errors from ingesting Coumadin or its generic version, warfarin, from 2011 to 2014. The reporter, Charles…

Asbestos is a known carcinogen that reportedly kills up to 15,000 Americans every year. And it’s still legal to put it in products. But is was a bit surprising to find asbestos in children’s crayons, according to tests commissioned by EWG Action Fund, a 501(c0(4) organization. The EWG (Environmental Working Group) Action Fund’s mission is to protect the health of people and the environment by educating the public and lobbying on a wide range of…

Choosing a surgeon can be a daunting task, and ProPublica, a not-for-profit news organization based in New York that produces investigative journalism in the public interest, researched thousands of doctors and how well they performed surgeries over a four-year period. Focusing on surgeons and not hospitals, ProPublica examined 16,827 doctors across the country focusing on eight surgical procedures performed thousands of times a day, scheduled in advance and generally performed on patients in stable health….

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