A Cook County jury won’t force the city of Chicago pay millions of dollars to the family of a woman who was killed in a crash caused by a carjacker fleeing police, instead laying full blame for the woman’s death at the feet of the criminal. The jury handed down the verdict on Oct. 9 in Cook County Circuit Court,…
Retail pharmacy giant Walgreens has failed again to persuade a judge that it was improperly added to a man’s lawsuit against tobacco companies over cigarette-caused illness as a litigation tactic to ensure the case remains in Cook County’s courts. On Oct. 13, U.S. District Judge Sunil Harjani sent a lawsuit back to Cook County Circuit Court after finding the plaintiff…
A state appeals panel will not allow the parents of a boy who died by suicide — which the parents attribute to bullying at Chicago’s prestigious Latin School — to sue the school and officials for their roles in the circumstances. Robert and Rose Bronstein’s son, Nate, died in January 2022. That April the couple sued Latin School and a…
A state appeals panel says a nurse practitioner isn’t immune from medical negligence litigation for conduct that occurred during a declared pandemic, even if there may have been an order from Illinois’ governor a judge thought made it so. DeKalb County Circuit Court Judge Bradley Waller had dismissed a lawsuit facing nurse practitioner Julie McGhee under an immunity provision of…
A North Carolina man is suing Eli Lilly over its top-selling diabetes treatments Mounjaro and Trulicity, saying the drugmaker didn’t do enough to warn about serious side effects from the medications. Frank Campbell Jr. says in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that he was left with debilitating nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain from gastroparesis after he started taking the drugs. That…
An insurer has no duty to indemnify a construction company over a carpenter’s fatal fall because an employee injury exclusion bars coverage, an Illinois appeals court ruled Wednesday. Ramiro Godinez, a carpenter arriving for his first day at a Waukegan hotel construction project on Sept. 19, 2017, fell more than 20 feet while retrieving tools from a plywood box raised…
An Illinois appeals court on Monday upheld workers compensation benefits for an ice cream plant employee who broke his foot while walking in sandals to a break room to charge his phone. Shawn Anderson had clocked in at Ice Cream Specialties Inc. on Oct. 3, 2022, but had not changed into his work boots when he headed toward the break…
Uber can’t use its user agreement to block a lawsuit from the widow of a man who died while riding in a rideshare vehicle on a Chicago expressway, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled. On Sept. 24, the state high court unanimously ruled Uber can’t send to arbitration the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of Mark Geller, who…
DoorDash maintains it does not owe a general duty of protection to other drivers after the Indiana Court of Appeals issued an opinion to the contrary. The court’s decision earlier this month centered on a lawsuit filed by Brian Oller over a 2020 accident in northern Indiana involving DoorDash driver Trey Culvey. Culvey ran a stop sign and crashed into…
Workers with less than two years on the job accounted for 54% of workers compensation injuries in 2022-2024, despite representing roughly one-third of the workforce, according to a Workers Compensation Research Institute report released Wednesday. Nearly four in 10 injuries occurred during employees’ first year with an employer, including 16% during their first three months, the Waltham, Massachusetts-based institute found….
