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Chicago Lawyers File Boy Scout Sex Abuse Case

Posted on November 20, 2007
Earlier today, Chicago lawyers Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed a lawsuit in Winnebago County, Illinois against the Boy Scouts of America alleging that Charles ?Chuck? Bickerstaff, a long-time paid senior district executive with the Rockford-based Blackhawk Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, sexually abused a Boy Scout over a ten-month period in 2006...

Chicago Layers File Boy Scout Sex Abuse Case

Bike Accidents More Likely With Disc Brakes

Posted on October 23, 2007
An interesting phenomenon occurs bicycles equipped with disc brakes that makes wheel separation more likely. The link describes this phenomenon more fully, but essentially, when the caliper is mounted behind the fork, the braking force actually works to eject the wheel from the fork...

Illinois Appellate Court affirms Hurley McKenna & Mertz negligent credentialing trial victory against hospital

Posted on August 06, 2007
The Illinois Appellate Court has affirmed the largest known verdict for a plaintiff in an institutional negligence case ever obtained in Illinois. The case is also the first reported case in Illinois dealing with a hospital's liability for negligently credentialing a physician, podiatrist or other health care provider...

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35W Bridge collapse demonstrates that tort immunity spawns complacency

Posted on August 04, 2007
I grew up in Minneapolis. I traveled over the I-35W Bridge hundreds of times. I drove under the bridge on a boat dozens of times. I marveled at the beauty of the bridge and the beautiful views from the bridge. I never imagined that the bridge might fail...

No excuse for lead paint in children's toys

Posted on August 04, 2007
The threat of product liability judgments helps keep product manufacturers honest. CNN reports that Fisher Price has announced it plans to recall nearly one million plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August...

Discovery Rule: The only reasonable approach to statutes of limitation

Posted on July 27, 2007
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., threw out a woman's equal pay claim because it held that the statute of limitations had expired. The Court held that, because she learned she was paid less than her male counterparts years after the discrimination occurred, she was out of luck...

Tort reform is bad, even for its advocates

Posted on July 27, 2007
Conservatives who champion tort reform are often the first to file the lawsuits that they defile as "frivolous". Remember Rick Santorum filing a lawsuit as he argued on the Senate floor for caps on damages? Here is the latest example of Republican hypocrisy with Judge Robert Bork filing a suit seeking punitive damages, the sort most detested by tort reformers: Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City...

The Truth About Catholic Charities Foster Care Settlement

Posted on April 17, 2007
It is widely being reported today that Catholic Charities is dropping its foster care program becasue it is unable to obtain insurance after a $12 Million settlement last summer. I am one of the attorneys who represented the three children and I would like to set the record straight...

A Response to Catholic Charities Dropping Foster Care

Posted on April 17, 2007
Several reports today, including one by Ofelia Casillas and Manya A. Brachear the Chicago Tribune, state that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago has been forced to drop its foster care program because it is unable to obtain insurance after a $12 Million settlement last summer...

Chicago Family Files Peanut Butter Lawsuit

Posted on February 21, 2007
WBBM's Bob Roberts reports that a South Shore family Tuesday became the first to file suit in Cook County Circuit Court against Con-Agra Foods over salmonella contracted from tainted peanut butter. The lawsuit was filed by Chicago attorneys Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P...

Chicago Woman Sues Over Tainted Peanut Butter

Posted on February 21, 2007
The Chicago Tribune and Associated Press are reporting that a Chicago woman sued ConAgra Foods, Inc. after she and her family became violently ill after eating Peter Pan peanut butter that was tainted with salmonella. The lawsuit was filed by Chicago lawyers Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P...

Chicago Lawyer Files Peanut Butter Case

Posted on February 21, 2007
Janet Rausa Fuller of the Chicago Sun Times reports that an Illinois family has filed a lawsuit in Cook County for illness related to tainted Peter Pan peanut butter. The case was filed by Chicago lawyers Hurley McKenna & Mertz, P.C. The suit alleges that the family of four became violently ill after eating an after school snack of peanut butter sandwiches on February 1, 2007...

Illinois confirms peanut butter illnesses

Posted on February 19, 2007
Jason Meisner of the Chicago Tribune reports that Cook County and state health officials have confirmed that one person sickened by salmonella this week in the suburbs shared the same strain of the bacteria that has been cited in a nationwide outbreak traced to certain brands of peanut butter...

Peanut Butter Causing Illness in Chicago and Nationwide

Posted on February 19, 2007
People in Chicago are experiencing illness as a result of the tainted ConAgra peanut butter. The Associated Press reports that the state of Indiana has had 13 confirmed cases of a salmonella outbreak associated with certain batches of Peter Pan-brand peanut butter and Wal-Mart's Great Value house brand...

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