Collins Law Firm

For 35 years, the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook released ethylene oxide, a known human carcinogen, into a DuPage County neighborhood where roughly 19,000 people lived within a mile and children attended four nearby schools. When federal health officials revealed the danger in August 2018, the community fought back, and Collins Law Group fought alongside it. The Sterigenics...

Under Illinois dog bite law, a dog owner is liable when the animal attacks or injures someone without provocation while the victim is peaceably conducting themselves in a place they may lawfully be — and you do not have to prove the owner was careless at all. The Illinois Animal Control Act, 510 ILCS 5/16, makes Illinois one of the most victim-friendly states in the country f...

If a rideshare driver assaulted you, please know two things before you read any further. What happened was not your fault, and Illinois law gives you civil rights that belong to you alone — including, in many cases, the right to hold Uber or Lyft itself accountable, not just the driver — whatever the police or the company decide to do. A rideshare assault turns something ordi...

When a driverless car injures someone in Illinois, waymo accident liability points at companies, not a person: the operator that deployed the vehicle, the makers of its software and sensors, and the contractors who maintained it. There is no driver to ticket and no human account of what happened, but the vehicle recorded everything, and Illinois product liability and negligen...

A tanker truck accident is governed by stricter rules than an ordinary semi crash, and those rules matter to victims. Federal law requires hazmat haulers to route around populated areas, use specially endorsed drivers, and carry up to $5,000,000 in liability insurance — and when a gasoline or chemical tanker crashes on I-80, I-88, or the Dan Ryan, violations of those rules be...