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In the United Stated each year, 30 percent of all injury-related deaths are caused by traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[1], which totaled more than 50,000 deaths in 2010 alone. The CDC estimates that 2.5 million people sought treatment for, were hospitalized for, or died from effects from TBIs in 2010 –…
Bus crash on Stevenson Expressway leaves one person dead and five injured. Power Rogers is currently investigating the case. At 7 a.m. on December 28, a bus traveling from Omaha, Nebraska to Chicago was involved in an accident. The crash took place on the I-55 on the Stevenson Expressway Monday morning. One passenger was killed and five others were injured.…
Attorneys Thomas Power and Kathryn Conway of Power Rogers recently reached a $4.3 million settlement on behalf of a family who lost their loved one when she was fatally struck by a CTA bus. Some eyewitnesses said that Martha Gonzalez was struck first by a car in Pilsen (that car fled the scene) and subsequently by the CTA bus, but…
Thomas M. Power, a partner at Power Rogers, filed a complaint in the Chicago O’Hare bus crash that occurred on August 29, 2014. The crash occurred when an airport transportation shuttle bus drove straight into a concrete lane barrier, very close to the O’Hare terminal. Several passengers were injured in the crash, requiring the assistance of several paramedics and various…
Partner Larry Rogers, Jr. has been retained to represent injured passengers on the Megabus crash which occurred on October 14, 2014. Early Tuesday morning, a double-decker bus struck another vehicle on I-65 and crashed onto its side. It was traveling from Atlanta to Chicago, and crashed near Indianapolis in Greenwood, IN. Of the 48 passengers, 26 were injured in the…
Just over two years since the devastating Megabus crash that occurred in Litchfield, Illinois, the litigation on behalf of the injured passengers continues. The personal injury attorneys at Power Rogers represent several of the passengers who were on board the St. Louis-bound charter, including the one fatality that occurred. On August 2, 2012, a Megabus traveling toward St. Louis veered…
New regulations will increase the ability of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to revoke trucking and bus companies’ authority to operate. The new regulations would permit the FMCSA to take this action even in situations where the scores on safety audits normally would not trigger action. According to the FMCSA the new rules are meant to target trucking…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced that seat belts will be required for new tour buses and buses that provide service between cities beginning in 2016. The new rule requires lap and shoulder seat belts be provided for each passenger and driver seat on new motorcoaches and other large buses. According to the NHTSA, this will greatly…
On September 25, 2012, Larry R. Rogers of the Chicago personal injury law firm of Power Rogers filed another lawsuit stemming from the Megabus crash that occurred just outside of St. Louis, Missouri on August 2, 2012. The Complaint at Law was filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County on behalf of a mother and father, who sustained serious…
On September 25, 2012, Power Rogers filed a lawsuit on behalf of Raghunath Avhad and Vaishali Avhad, who were injured and their daughter, Dr. Aditi Avhad, who was killed in the August 2, 2012 Megabus accident. The Avhads are represented by Joseph A. Power, Jr., Larry R. Rogers, Sr., and Devon Bruce of Power Rogers On August 2, a Megabus…