Saying trial lawyers have not yet shown evidence of an alternative to cow’s milk-based infant formula that would not leave tens of thousands of babies unfed, a Chicago federal judge has again flushed another lawsuit against pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement maker Abbot Laboratories. The ruling marks another significant victory for Abbott and, potentially, some of its co-defendants, as they seek…
The Indiana Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a wrongful death case that could shape how far the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s responsibility extends to former college athletes who later develop degenerative brain disease. The estate of Christopher Riggs, a former Texas A&M football player who died in 2020 and was later diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE,…
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for a case involving a woman who fell while exiting Lake County’s Community Hospital and sued the hospital for alleged negligence. A hearing for Caryl Rosen v. Community Healthcare System d/b/a Community Hospital, 25S-CT-00217, will be Nov. 5 at 9 a.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom. According to court records, on Oct….
The Indiana Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments later this month in a case deciding whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association had a duty to warn individual student athletes about the risk of football-related head trauma that can contribute to death later. The argument will be held at DePauw University on Oct. 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m….
A federal judge won’t stop a class action accusing a children’s mouthwash manufacturer of marketing the product as safe for younger children despite evidence to the contrary. U.S. District Judge Lindsay Jenkins issued an opinion Oct. 2 denying a motion to dismiss the third amended complaint mothers and grandmothers brought against Perrigo Company and Ranir regarding Firefly Anticavity Fluoride Rinse….
A chemical company with a manufacturing plant in north suburban Gurnee has become the latest to settle hundreds of lawsuits claiming emissions from its manufacturing process caused people living nearby to develop cancer. On Sept. 19, Cook County Circuit Judge Kathy M. Flanagan agreed to dismiss 440 lawsuits against Vantage Specialty Chemicals Inc., all of which sought to make the…
A state appeals panel has agreed Monsanto doesn’t have to defend itself again in a lawsuit from plaintiffs who allege Roundup exposure caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Michael Evard, Sue Wiechmann, Michael Orrel and Ronald Bryan were among many blood cancer patients who sued numerous corporations in connection with exposure to the Roundup herbicide as well as polychlorinated biphenyls,…
Energy company ExxonMobil has pledged to appeal what it calls an “irrational verdict” delivered by a Chicago jury this week, which awarded $32 million to a woman who slipped on spilled oil at an ExxonMobil facility while working as a truck driver. The jury delivered the verdict on Sept. 22 in Cook County Circuit Court at the close of a…
A woman suing an abortionist for allegedly badly botching an abortion at his Champaign clinic will need to publicly identify herself if she wishes to continue with her case, because too many news pieces, including interviews with her and her lawyer, have been produced about her case, unfairly victimizing the man she is suing, a Champaign County judge ruled. And…
In January 2022, Elmer Waggoner arrived at a hospital with COVID-19. By March 3, he was negative for the virus — and on March 29, he was dead. He’d developed necrotizing fasciitis from a bed sore. By then, the state emergency declaration for COVID had also expired. But an attorney for dozens of doctors and three anonymous hospitals argued before…
