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Winter's icy breath has descended upon the Great Lakes. This has increased the risks pedestrians face as they navigate city streets, parking garages, and public parks. Ice and snow, sand and salt, crumbling concrete, and potholes can all cause slips and falls. In the winter, there is no shortage of obstacles that pedestrians can find themselves tripping over. That is why pedestrians should use caution while they are walking so that they don't experience a slip and fall accident that can derail their holiday plans.

On Friday, November 20th, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that Volkswagen has admitted to government investigators that in addition to the "clean diesel" vehicles equipped with emissions defeating software, that all of the company's 3-liter V-6 diesel vehicles manufactured since 2006 were equipped with software designed to defeat US emissions testing systems.

Winter has blown its icy breath across Illinois and made driving conditions more dangerous. Every year, thousands of automobile accidents can be attributed to bad weather and icy road conditions. These lead to innumerable injuries and dozens of fatalities throughout the winter season in Chicago.

Several states have begun the process of eliminating state administered workers' compensation programs. Oklahoma and Texas have already passed legislation allowing employers to discontinue contributions to state administered plans and instead administer their own in-house alternatives. These programs have come at a time when state legislators are seeking to streamline state budgets, but they are coming at a hefty cost to the workers who depend on these programs for their health and safety.

When pedestrians and vehicles collide, the likelihood of serious injury, or even death, is unfortunately high. As vehicle usage becomes more commonplace across the globe, the incidence of pedestrian-vehicle crashes become increasingly frequent. Just how commonplace is this? In the United States, it is all too common. According to the National Highway Traffic Association and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: