In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago Division, case number 1:24-cv-03858 was filed on May 13, 2024. Plaintiff Teddi House, individually and as parent and next friend of Nevaiah Mayle, a minor, is suing defendants Mead Johnson & Company, LLC and Mead Johnson Nutrition Company. The lawsuit centers around injuries suffered by Baby Nevaiah…
A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making similar allegations. The jury in Cook County, Illinois circuit court agreed with arguments from drugmakers GSK and Boehringer Ingelheim that the plaintiff, 89-year-old Illinois resident Angela Valadez, had…
Alberto Gonzalez has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Central Railroad Company (ICRR) in the United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois. The case, identified as 1:24-cv-03573, was filed on May 2, 2024. Gonzalez alleges that ICRR failed to provide him with a safe work environment and equipment, leading to his injury. Represented by Casey Jones Law Firm and…
A jury in Chicago has ordered Peoria-based OSF Healthcare and other medical care providers to pay $41 million to a 72-year-old central Illinois lawyer and his wife, after the man was left incapacitated by a catastrophic stroke, allegedly as a result of “mismanagement” of his medical care by physicians and other health care providers at facilities in central Illinois. The…
The Illinois Appellate Court on Friday overturned a denial of benefits for the son of a construction manager who died of a heart attack while shoveling snow in 2006. The coroner concluded that Richard Cronk, who worked for Kimball Hill Homes, died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease with coronary atherosclerosis as a significant contributing factor, according to Cronk v. IWCC (Kimball…
Firoz Khan has filed a lawsuit against Air Canada and United Airlines, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Case No. 24-cv-03622) on May 3, 2024. The plaintiff is represented by Rapoport Weisberg & Sims, P.C., and alleges that he was injured due to severe turbulence during an international flight. Khan, a resident of…
A federal judge in Chicago has ruled Wendy’s wasn’t legally obligated to protect a man who was shot while waiting in a drive-through line at a South Side restaurant. Vonzell Scott said he and a passenger visited the Wendy’s on West Garfield Boulevard, just north of Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, around 3 a.m. Dec. 31, 2018. He alleged he saw an…
According to plaintiff’s counsel, a Fayette County jury returned the first plaintiff verdict on record in their county when they awarded a tractor trailer driver $12.2 million following a 2018 crash on I-70 that caused the plaintiff to suffer back injuries. Jurors awarded plaintiff Jeremy Dutton $12,208,790.53 on April 26 for past and future loss of a normal life, past…
Brian Sesto has filed a lawsuit against Pilkington North America, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, under case ID 1:24-cv-03149, on April 19, 2024. The suit is a personal injury claim resulting from a roof collapse incident that occurred on November 2, 2022. Sesto’s legal representation is Parente & Norem, P.C., while Pilkington…
A state appeals panel has ruled a customer who was injured when he was struck by a car that crashed through a Waukegan restaurant’s front window can sue the restaurant for failing to install protective bollards to prevent the car from driving through the storefront. According to court documents, Darius King was ordering food at Taqueria El Paraiso on North…
