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Congress Plans Legislation to Prevent Car Rental Companies from Renting...
Most of us assume that when we rent a car, the vehicle has been inspected and is safe for us to drive. Unfortunately, some car rental agencies have made cars available to customers even after these...
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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment for Deaths in House Fire;...
Four teenagers went out to dinner and later had a party in the basement home of the Gordons, the parent home of one of the teenagers. The incident took place in July 2006. Two of the individuals, Hoyle...
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Limit in Insurance Coverage Affirmed in Porch Collapse Case; Ware v. First...
In 2003, a three-story porch in Chicago’s Lincoln Park collapsed during a party. Thirteen people were killed and another 29 were injured. Insurance coverage was an issue taken up in a declaratory...
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Student Drowns But School Found Not Responsible; Slade v. Board of School...
The estate of the decedent, Kamonie Slade, and his parents, brought a lawsuit against the administrators of the public school he was attending at the time of his death from drowning in a class outing....
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$8.3 Million Jury Verdict for Families of Two Killed in Overseas Bus Accident
Two 13-year-old boys who were participating in an overseas trip were killed when the bus they were riding in overturned. The trip was organized by the North Carolina Youth Soccer Association. The...
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Cook County Jury Entered $1.5 Million Verdict for the Death of a...
Thirteen-week-old Kevin Hernandez underwent colon surgery. After surgery, Kevin experienced chronic diarrhea and vomiting. He was taken to a hospital emergency department where he was diagnosed with...
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Illinois Appellate Court Rules in Forum Non Conveniens Case
√On Nov. 4, 2008, Ulrika Bjorkstam and Joseph Daniel Dray were injured in a plane crash in Mexico City. On Nov. 3, 2009, the two injured parties filed a lawsuit against MPC Products Corp and Woodward...
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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Cook County Summary Judgment Order that...
Illinois Tool Works purchased commercial liability policies many years ago from Travelers Casualty Surety Co. and Century Indemnity Co. They were purchased by Illinois Tool Works for the years 1971...
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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms $1.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Death of a...
In July 2009, Clarence Walker was trying to gain access to a broken elevator at 365 W. Oak St., Chicago, Ill., from the third floor of what was then Cabrini-Green in the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA)...
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Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of Case for Forum Non Conveniens;...
The Illinois Appellate Court has found no abuse of discretion where the factors were not delineated in an order when a Cook County judge dismissed a case because of forum non conveniens. In this case,...
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Cook County Judge Enters Verdict of $1.875 Million Verdict for the Death of a...
On May 24, 2011, Michael Racky was bicycling across 95th Street at LaCrosse Avenue in Oak Lawn, Ill. He jumped his bike over a 12-inch curb at the southwest corner to reach the sidewalk. There, the...
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$2.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Death of a Teenager Who Died When School...
Jeffrey Stewart was an 18-year-old student at Oswego High School at 4250 Route 71 in Oswego, Ill. He had a known history of asthma. On Feb. 13, 2008, Jeffrey was attending a class when he experienced...
View ArticleMotorist Killed by Trucker Claimed to Have Been Hired With Reckless Driving...
Karen Ann Whitaker was 60 when she started home from the church where she worked as a daycare teacher. Driving alone, she exited the church parking lot and turned onto the adjacent road. As she entered...
View ArticleNew Illinois Law Makes Every Bicyclist Entitled to Same Rights as Motorists
A bill signed into law decrees that cars and bikes must be treated as equals in Illinois. House Bill 5912 was signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner. The measure amends the Illinois Vehicle Code....
View ArticlePedestrian in Wheelchair Seriously Injured in Crosswalk Settles for $382,000
Sam Eddins was 81 and used an electric wheelchair to get around. He was in the process of crossing a street at a crosswalk in a controlled intersection. The defendant Eileen Jagger was driving her...
View Article$6.65 Million Cook County Jury Verdict for Death of a Young Woman Who Fell...
On Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, at 4:45 a.m., 22-year-old Patrycja Wysckowska fell 30 feet to her death after trying to navigate an outside ladder on the third-floor rear porch of an apartment building at...
View Article$15 Million Jury Verdict Against Bus Company for Negligence in Passenger Death
Harvey Chernikoff, who had intellectual disabilities and schizophrenia, lived with his parents and took a bus to his workshop job on a paratransit bus operated by First Transit Inc. To safeguard...
View Article$5.8 Million Verdict Affirmed in Asbestos-Causing Mesothelioma Wrongful Death
A jury found that the mesothelioma contracted by James Lester Phillips was caused in part by exposure to asbestos contained in Bendix brakes. In an appeal, Honeywell challenged the $5.8 million awarded...
View Article$27 Million Jury Verdict for Death of Construction Worker
Edgar Gonzalez was a construction worker employed by a commercial contractor. While working at a project commissioned by the city of Los Angeles, he was erecting a wall-forming system used to support...
View Article$3 Million Jury Verdict for Suicide Death Caused by Paxil in Pharmaceutical...
Plaintiff Wendy Dolin, the wife of the decedent, Stewart Dolin, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago alleging that the death of her husband,...
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