Personal Injury

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...

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...

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...

On December 6, 2022, Jack J. Casciato, partner at 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...

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...