An Illinois state appeals panel has agreed that generic drug makers can’t face lawsuits claiming Zantac causes cancer. Plaintiff Angela Valadez said she developed colorectal cancer, allegedly as a result of treating heartburn from 1995 to 2014 by taking Zantac and ranitidine, its generic equivalent. She sued Zantac-maker GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Engelheim, which made and sold the active ingredient ranitidine,…
“Overexertion,” “falls,” and “struck-by and object or equipment” are the costliest workers compensation injuries, accounting for more than half of the $58.8 billion spend, based on 2022 data, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. revealed in its safety report released Tuesday. The study named “overexertion involving outside sources” as the top cause, accounting for $13.7 billion in costs, largely due to “manual…
In a significant premises liability decision, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that victims of the 2022 mass shooting at Greenwood Park Mall may proceed with their lawsuit against Simon Property Group and its security contractor, Universal Protection Service, LLC. On July 17, 2022, a gunman entered Greenwood Park Mall, where he spent over an hour in a restroom assembling…
The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed a decision allowing a food distributor to proceed with a breach of warranty claim against two produce wholesalers, holding that the wholesalers had sufficient notice of the alleged product defect through existing personal injury lawsuits. The case stems from multiple personal injury suits filed by restaurant patrons who became ill after consuming contaminated cilantro….
Franklyn Neter-Nu, a truck driver, filed a medical negligence lawsuit after complications from an improperly administered IV led to a below-the-knee amputation. The case originated from a 2015 visit to Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana, where Neter-Nu sought treatment for nausea and vomiting. During his hospital stay, Nurse Morgan Mittler noticed that the IV line had become detached from Neter-Nu’s…
Saying he has been unfairly victimized in the press, an Ohio abortionist who is being sued for allegedly badly botching an abortion at his Champaign clinic, perforating an Indiana woman’s uterus and leaving half of the aborted fetus in her body, has asked a judge to both force the woman to publicly identify herself and impose a gag order to…
Heat-related workplace injuries double when temperatures rise to just 80 or 85 degrees Fahrenheit and increase more than sevenfold when temperatures exceed 90 degrees, according to a new report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. Unsurprisingly, such injuries are more common during summer months and disproportionately affect outdoor workers. Men and younger workers are at greater risk, and Southern states…
A judge has axed dozens more lawsuits from the list of thousands pending in Southern Illinois federal court accusing the makers of commercial weed killer Paraquat of allegedly causing Parkinson’s disease. On June 16, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel adopted the recommendation of court-appointed special master Randi Ellis and dismissed 69 Paraquat exposure lawsuits for failure to return required plaintiff…
The Indiana Supreme Court held that a trial court should have dismissed a teacher’s case alleging she was fired in retaliation for contemplating filing a workers’ compensation claim because she failed to allege the district was exclusively motivated by a desire not to pay the claim. A trial court denied the district’s request for summary judgment, and a jury concluded…
In a pivotal decision, the Indiana Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a former student who was injured by a falling window at Indiana University, holding that negligence may be inferred under the legal doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. The incident occurred in April 2018, when Kiera Isgrig, a college student, was studying in a university room and…
