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At Koester Law, PLLC we have focused our practice on helping the injured since 1895, but we also devote a great deal of time to consumer protection issues as well. While physical personal injuries often have traumatic and lasting impact on the lives of entire families, financial and fraud-related claims can also have a severe…

Why Cell Phone Distraction Is as Dangerous as Alcohol When Driving Many of the other great authors writing for the Legal Examiner have addressed the distracted driving epidemic in a number of very good posts. Now Koester Law, PLLC is weighing in. The dangers of drunk driving have received a lot of attention over the…

If you’ve been injured in an accident and you’re looking to retain a personal injury attorney, you probably have a lot of questions when it comes to retaining a lawyer and filing personal injury lawsuits This is an overwhelming time and we understand that, so we’d like to provide you with some basic information to…

If you have recently had someone in your family become ill, injured, or even die at the hands of a medical professional, you may be able to file a medical malpractice claim. Despite what you may have heard though, these claims, particularly in Illinois, are complicated and require a variety of steps to ensure that…

When you have undergone a trauma or are just looking to improve your mental or emotional health, your first step may be to seek out the help of a psychiatrist. As such, you have a certain expectation that your psychiatrist will help to foster some kind of growth. Like when you seek out a medical…

Darkness triggers melatonin production, which tells the body that it’s time to sleep. This causes drowsiness. Furthermore, people aren’t nocturnal creatures by nature and therefore their vision is poorly suited for the dark. These facts mean that the hours after sunset is a dangerous time to drive. While headlights and tail lights make driving possible,…

Human beings. If nothing else we are creatures of habit, especially in the Midwest where it is not uncommon for someone to say “sorry” when somebody else gets in their way.  We don’t want to be a burden, and we sure don’t want to inconvenience folks. During the winter months, even unusually warm ones, it…

Legal news coming out of our nation’s capitol involves a very young child and a citation for littering. Details are emerging as to how a two-year-old girl from Washington D.C. received a $75 ticket. But things are not always what they seem. Was this just “fake news.” Envelope in Alley According to a report by…

With little rain in Illinois over the last few months, you must drive with extra caution when the sky actually opens up. Recent floods caused the deaths several people, including some trapped in their car by water. Therefore, we want to provide you with tips about Automobile Accidents and Safety during floods.

Just like the DePuy ASR metal on metal hip, and the Pinnacle metal on metal hip, the Attune Knee made by DePuy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has been linked to failures related to instability. This mode of failure of the popular and heavily marketed knee prosthesis is serious and painful. The…