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Third Lawsuit Accuses Chicago City Police of Harassing Black Residents on Election Night

Posted on November 24, 2008
Another police brutality lawsuit has been filed against the Chicago police for allegedly harassing black residents who were celebrating President-elect Barack Obama?s victory on Election Night. There are 22 black plaintiffs named in this latest lawsuit, which was filed in federal court...

Another Illinois Personal Injury Lawsuit Filed Against State Trooper Involved in Deadly Crash on I-64 that Claimed the Lives of Two Teenage Sisters

Posted on November 21, 2008
One year after a deadly car crash involving State Trooper Matt Mitchell left two sisters dead and a man and his pregnant wife injured, a second Illinois personal injury lawsuit has been filed against him in St. Clair County Circuit Court. The motor vehicle crash occurred on November 23 when Mitchell, who was responding to a minor incident close to Mascoutah, lost control of his police-issued 2006 Chevrolet Impala while traveling at a speed of 126 mph...

Chicago Jury Orders Johnson and Johnson to Pay Illinois Family $16.6 Million for Wrongful Death of Mother Who Used Defective Pain Killing Patch

Posted on November 19, 2008
In Illinois, a Chicago jury is ordering two Johnson and Johnson units to pay $16.6 million to the family of a woman who died after using a defective Duragesic pain-killing patch. A doctor had prescribed the patch to her to combat the pain she was experiencing from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which is a neurological disorder...

Illinois Transplant Patient Sues University of Chicago Medical Center for Medical Malpractice After She is Diagnosed with HIV and Hepatitis C

Posted on November 17, 2008
In Chicago, a 33-year-old transplant patient is suing University of Chicago Medical Center and one of its surgeons for medical malpractice. The woman, identified in her Illinois personal injury lawsuit as Jane Doe, tested positive for Hepatitis C and HIV after she received an infected kidney while undergoing an organ transplant at the hospital...

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Three Chicago Teens Drown in Illinois Boating Accident on the Fox River

Posted on November 14, 2008
The paddleboat that two of the three Chicago teens who drowned were riding in on the Fox River early this morning was missing its bottom plug. According to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the plugs on all of the paddleboats used by students who were attempting to get on the river last night were removed because the vessels were taken out of service for the winter...

Metra to Pay Families of Two Chicago Train Accident Victims $11 Million for Wrongful Deaths

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Metra commuter rail agency and two families have reached an $11 million settlement agreement in the wrongful deaths of two Chicago train accident victims. An Illinois judge approved the settlement on Wednesday. The deadly Illinois train crash occurred in September 2005 when a train headed to Chicago from Joliet derailed when changing tracks...

Chicago Family Says They Were Victims of Police Brutality on Election Night

Posted on November 10, 2008
An African-American Chicago family has filed an Illinois police brutality lawsuit accusing four unnamed cops of hate crimes, excessive use of force, and battery. The incident allegedly occurred on Election Night, while the rest of the United States was celebrating the election of Barack Obama as the country?s first black president...

Illinois Family Files Chicago Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against White Castle

Posted on November 07, 2008
The parents of Ronald L. Heard Jr., a man who died in 2007 after being shot outside a restaurant in Chicago?s South Side, is suing White Castle System for his wrongful death. Their Illinois civil lawsuit accuses the restaurant of creating an environment that allowed drug dealers and violence on the premise...

Male Chicago Pedestrian Dies in Illinois Motor Vehicle Accident in the South Loop

Posted on November 07, 2008
In Chicago on Wednesday night, a male pedestrian died after he was hit by a motor vehicle as he crossed the street close to South Wabash Avenue and East Roosevelt Road. According to Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford, the victim was in ?extremely critical? condition when he was admitted John H...

Aurora Man Files Illinois Personal Injury Lawsuit Against Landlord After Kids Eat Lead-Based Paint Chips in Their Apartment

Posted on November 04, 2008
In Kane County, Aurora resident Tyre Davis is suing landlord Ismael Quintana II for personal injury. Davis, a father of three young children, ages 1, 3, and 4, says that his children got sick because they ate paint chips that had high levels of lead while in their apartment...

Two Illinois Construction Workers Seriously Injured During Chicago Scaffolding Collapse

Posted on October 28, 2008
In Chicago?s River North, two construction workers sustained serious injuries on Monday when the scaffolding they were on collapsed off the Adlake Building located on West Ohio Street while they were doing masonry. The building was undergoing renovations...

Prosecutors Expand Chicago Police Torture Investigation in Illinois

Posted on October 28, 2008
In Illinois, prosecutors are expanding their probe into claims that Chicago police officers used "torture" tactics, including beatings, Russian roulette, and electric shock, on criminal suspects in order to obtain confessions. On Monday, ex-Chicago police commander Jon Burge pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he lied about torture while he was in charge of the Chicago police department?s Area 2 violent crimes division on the South Side...

Husband of Murdered Burger King Manager Files Illinois Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Security Company

Posted on October 23, 2008
In Cook County Circuit Court, the husband of a Burger King manager that was murdered in 2006 during a robbery at the fast-food restaurant she was supervising is suing Stand Guard, Inc. for her wrongful death. The company was in charge of providing security services to the Lindenhurst restaurant...

Chicago Park District Sued Over Rape of Teenage Girl

Posted on October 22, 2008
The family of a teenage girl is suing the Chicago Park District for personal injury because she was sexually assaulted by three of the Park District?s teen employees last year. The teen was 13 and a volunteer junior counselor at Hayes Park when the assault happened...

Parents of Chicago Woman Killed in VHI Truck Accident File Illinois Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on October 20, 2008
In Cook County Circuit Court, the Chicago parents of Kevetta Davis, a 19-year-old Southern Illinois University student who died on September after being struck by a truck on Interstate 57, are suing VHI, Viacom, 51 Minds Entertainment, and truck driver Dennis Hernandez for wrongful death...

Illinois Patient Sues Chicago Surgeon for Medical Malpractice Over Injuries and Failure to Obtain Informed Consent

Posted on October 15, 2008
A woman who may have to go a heart transplant after a new heart device was implanted inside her during surgery is suing prominent Chicago Dr. Patrick McCarthy for medical malpractice. McCarthy implanted the device, a Myxo ETlogix ring, in the body of Toni Vlahoulis during a surgery to repair a leaky heart valve in 2006...

2 Chicago Car Accidents Leave 1 Person Dead and 11 Others Injured

Posted on October 14, 2008
In Chicago on Friday night, 1 woman died and 11 were injured in two separate auto accidents. Eight of the injury victims were children. The first accident involved a single vehicle, in which, according to the Illinois State Police, the motor vehicle rolled over a number of times before stopping near South Doty Avenue and 120th Street...

Family of Murdered McHenry County Woman Awarded $10 Million Judgment for Her Wrongful Death

Posted on October 08, 2008
An Illinois judge has awarded the family of Verna Corcoran $10 million for her wrongful death. Corcoran, an 83-year-old McHenry County resident, was murdered in her house on Mother?s Day in 2006. McHenry County Judge Michael Feetterer awarded the amount to Corcoran?s family after representatives for the estate of Jose Manuel Albada-Grijaldo failed to appear in court on a number of occasions to challenge the wrongful death case against him...

Chicago Settles Wrongful Death of Elderly Pedestrian Hit by City Fire Department SUV For $700,000

Posted on October 06, 2008
The city of Chicago says it will pay the family of Carrie Boston $700,000 following her 2006 pedestrian death. The 69-year-old woman died on October 16, 2006 at around 6:30pm when she was struck by a Ford Expedition while crossing South Chicago Avenue...

Chicago Mother Agrees to $5.5 Birthing Malpractice Settlement With Westlake Hospital and Two Doctors

Posted on September 29, 2008
Eva Liberato, the Northlake, Illinois mother whose son Angel suffered serious brain damage at birth, has accepted a $5.5 million medical malpractice settlement offer from Westlake Hospital and two doctors. The malpractice incident occurred in 2002, after hospital staffers gave Liberato a drug to induce contractions...

More Mesothelioma Lawsuits Filed in Illinois

Posted on September 25, 2008
More mesothelioma lawsuits have been filled in Madison County, Illinois. These Illinois personal injury lawsuits are just a few of the many suits that have been filed throughout the United States by workers and families seeking to obtain compensation for illnesses and deaths due to exposure to asbestos at work...

ABC News Investigation Exposes Dangerous Pool Drains In Public Pools and Hotels Across the United States

Posted on September 16, 2008
A recent ABC News undercover investigation found that despite the known danger that pool drains can pose?especially to children?there are still public pools in the US that have yet to install safety drain covers and shut-off valves that are supposed to prevent kids from getting stuck or sucked into a drain?s powerful suction...

Illinois Jury Awards Former Altar Boy that Was Sexually Abused by a Belleville Priest $5 Million

Posted on September 15, 2008
A 47-year-old Champaign man who says a Belleville priest sexually abused him when he was a 13-year-old altar boy at St. Teresa?s Parish has been awarded $5 million by an Illinois jury. James Wisniewski says that Rev. Raymond Kownacki sexually abused him multiple times over five years beginning in 1973 and the Belleville Diocese covered up the abuse incidents...

Illinois Medical Malpractice Damage Caps Will Be Scrutinized by State Supreme Court

Posted on September 09, 2008
A medical malpractice lawsuit that will soon go before the Illinois Supreme Court could test the constitutionality of a state law limiting how much a plaintiff can receive for non-economic damages. The personal injury lawsuit, first filed in Cook County, involves a young girl who sustained a serious birth injury in October 2005...

Decrease in Illinois Traffic Accidents Attributed to Police Enforcement of Seat Belt Use

Posted on September 08, 2008
The Illinois Department of Transportation?s Division of Traffic Safety is reporting that there were 484 motor vehicle fatalities on state roads between January through June 2008. This figure is 19% lower than the 598 deaths that occurred in Illinois during the same time period last year...

Eight People Sent to Hospitals After They Are Exposed to Toxic Chemical at Ro-Corp Plant in Illinois

Posted on September 03, 2008
Eight people were taken to the hospital on Saturday after they got sick when nitroaniline was released into a Ro-Corp plant in Illinois. The exposure happened when a barrel filled with the chemical was dropped. Contrary to earlier media reports, no one was killed from being exposed to the chemical during the work accident...

Palatine Motorcyclist and Car Driver Injured in Collision in Schaumburg, Illinois

Posted on September 01, 2008
One man died and a woman was hurt in Schaumburg, Illinois on Sunday in a motor vehicle collision that occurred at Higgins Road and Mall Drive. The accident occurred around 4:30 in the afternoon. Preliminary reports indicate that a car was going west on Higgins made a U-turn in front of a motorcycle headed east...

Illinois Man Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against 92 Companies Alleging that His Father Died of Lung Cancer Because of Exposure to Asbestos

Posted on August 28, 2008
In Madison County Circuit Court, Illinois resident Mark McDonald is suing 92 corporations for his father?s wrongful death. Mark's father, Robert, worked for nearly 50 years as an auto body repairman, mechanic, and boiler worker at various places throughout the state, including Shell Oil Company...

Chicago Man Says He Was Paralyzed After Being Struck by Falling Masonry

Posted on August 27, 2008
In Chicago, a 32-year-old man is in intensive care and paralyzed from the neck down after getting hit by what he says was falling masonry. Rogelio Rodriguez says he pushed a woman out of the way so that a slab of falling concrete wouldn?t strike her. He was hit instead...

US Government Wants Widow?s Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against the Marion Veterans Hospital in Illinois Thrown Out

Posted on August 21, 2008
The federal government wants a judge to toss out a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a woman who alleges that her husband died as a result of medical malpractice at the Marion VA Hospital in Illinois. The reason the government is citing for its request, filed in East St...

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