Birth Injury

Approximately 27 out of every 1,000 births involve a birth related injury. The most common are cerebral palsy, oxygen deprivation, mental retardation, Erb’s Palsy, Klumpke’s Palsy and Brachial Plexus injuries and are the result of medical negligence or error. A baby with a birth injury may recover, or may suffer lifelong physical and/or mental limitations. Filing a medical malpractice claim when birth injuries are permanent provides the possibility for both the newborn and his or her family to recover monetary damages.

A difficult birth or injury to the baby can occur because of the baby’s size or the position during labor and delivery. A birth injury is categorized as any type of damage or injury afflicted to an infant’s body before, during, or slightly after the child’s birth. Complications through the course of pregnancy or labor can result in a wide variety of complications for a newborn baby.

Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) symptoms of “mild” to “moderate” are subtle and the injury commonly avoids detection. Due to the invisible nature of the injury, victims or traumatic brain injury only rarely receive prompt treatment for their physical and cognitive impairment.

Not uncommonly, victims’ early medical charts are devoid of any mention of “head injury” or “cognitive impairment”. It is only later, if lucky, that a health care professional validates the victims’ injury, and treatment finally ensues. TBI occurs when the brain suffers a trauma, whether or not there is apparent evidence on the outside of the head and skull.

Car Accident

The Allen firm represents clients who have suffered personal injuries in automobile, motorcycle, truck, or bus accidents. Specifically accidents involving drunk or hit and run drivers, uninsured or under insured drivers, semi-tractor trailer collisions.

Motor vehicle accidents can cause extreme physical pain and suffering, as well as financial devastation to victims of reckless and negligent drivers. Injured victims must deal with large and unforeseeable medical bills, lost wages, pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life. Family members also commonly suffer economic loss, mental anguish and loss of companionship in caring for an injured family member. Auto accidents resulting in debilitating injury can have severe consequences to a family’s finances, and can cause loss of jobs, homes, cars, and other assets.

Medical Malpractice

Medical Malpractice is the failure of a health care provider, usually a physician, or hospital or other health care professional or institution, to give a patient treatment that meets a generally accepted standard of care as defined by the medical community. Occurrences of medical malpractice may not be obvious to the average person. An illness or injury that seems unrelated may appear after childbirth or surgery. An experienced medical malpractice attorney and the appropriate medical experts will conduct a thorough review and analysis to identify whether or not medical malpractice has taken place. Other times, it is clear that a medical error has taken place, and a routine procedure may turn into a fatal injury.

Selecting an experienced Chicago medical malpractice attorney is critical to protecting your rights and the future financial well-being of you and your family. At The Allen Firm, we have the legal, medical and financial resources to fight for the rights of families who are dealing with the injury or death of a loved one as a result of medical malpractice.

Nursing Home Abuse

The Allen firm represents clients in Wisconsin and Illinois who have parents, grandparents, or spouses who are victims of nursing home abuse, or who have suffered serious injury due to nursing home negligence or abuse.

As elder abuse attorneys, The Allen Firm is deeply and passionately committed to doing whatever I can to stop this outrage and hold these institutions responsible for their abuse of our elders. Nothing can change the horrors that your loved ones have faced, but effective, targeted litigation can help to ensure systemic change in nursing homes, protecting other residents and sparing other families the heartbreak you have endured.

Local law makes a clear distinction between elder abuse and elder neglect. Although both are heartbreaking and wholly unacceptable, we focus our legal practice on the most serious abuse cases.

Wrongful Death

Civil liability for wrongful death is imposed when a person or entity engages in negligent or other wrongful conduct which results in death. Surviving family members may be entitled to compensation from those responsible. Wrongful death can happen from a variety of personal injury accidents, including automobile accidents, premises liability, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, and other areas of personal injury law.

Wrongful death is a legal term (used in the civil, rather than criminal, system), referring to one person causing the death of another. The “cause” may be specific actions or a failure to act (negligence). The person killed is referred to as the “decedent.” Wrongful death suits are filed to collect compensation for the financial and emotional losses incurred because of the death.