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What Are The Safest and Deadliest Ways to Travel in Chicago?

What Are The Safest and Deadliest Ways to Travel in Chicago?

December 13, 2022

We use a variety of ways to get around, whether it is commuting to work by train, taking a flight to go on vacation, or driving a car to run errands. Our ways of traveling have…

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What to Do if You Are Involved in a Mass Transit Accident

What to Do if You Are Involved in a Mass Transit Accident

August 5, 2022

Mass transit accidents can be frightening and have the potential to inflict serious injuries on a large number of people. Such accidents can involve train derailments or bus crashes, to name a few. If you or…

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CTA fires train operator after woman dies retrieving cellphone from tracks

CTA fires train operator after woman dies retrieving cellphone from tracks

September 27, 2019

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) fired the operator of a Red Line train that fatally hit a woman who was looking for her dropped cellphone on the tracks. The operator was accused of failing to “devote…

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Slip & Fall Passenger Wins 6 Million Dollar Verdict and A Bus Hits An Inebriated Passenger

February 28, 2017

On this episode of Chicago Injury Alert, we look at a supermarket slip & fall case, and a bus accident involving a passenger who was under the influence. https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.briskmanandbriskman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bbg-podcast-feb-28-2017.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

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CTA bus strikes inebriated passenger after driver forces him off bus

February 10, 2017

A man filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Thursday, November 3, 2016, alleging that a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver hit him after the driver kicked him off the bus. The man…

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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Over Man’s Death at Blue Line Stop

October 7, 2013

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the Chicago Transit Authority and one of its employees after a man fell on the electrified third rail and died in 2012. The man died August 7, 2012,…

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