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January 6, 2026

State’s high court blocks revival of Olympian’s lawsuit against USA Track & Field

January 5, 2026

Monroe Circuit Court must grant summary judgment to IU in sports injury lawsuit, appellate court rules

January 5, 2026

Woman who slipped running to get help for worker sues Schnucks

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Personal Injury

State’s high court blocks revival of Olympian’s lawsuit against USA Track & Field

The Indiana Supreme Court has blocked the revival of a lawsuit brought by an Olympic athlete against USA Track & Field after she collapsed from heat-related injuries at the 2021 U.S. Olympic trials. In a 4–1 decision issued Wednesday, the justices held that Marion Superior Court Judge Patrick Dietrick properly denied heptathlete Taliyah Brooks’ attempt to amend her complaint after…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 6, 2026
Personal Injury

Monroe Circuit Court must grant summary judgment to IU in sports injury lawsuit, appellate court rules

An exercise that Indiana University coaches instructed football players to perform was within the range of ordinary behavior involved in strength and conditioning, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday in overturning a lower court’s decision after a former member of IU’s football team sued the school for an eye injury he suffered during a strength training session. The Monroe…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
January 5, 2026
Personal Injury

Baby formula makers can’t escape St. Clair County lawsuits

A state appeals panel has ruled Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson must continue defending themselves against a rash of lawsuits seeking payouts for marketing and selling baby formula allegedly linked to cases of a condition potentially fatal in infants. Thousands of lawsuits have landed in court over cases of the condition known as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), which results in the…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 29, 2025
Workers' Compensation

Provider choice proposals trending in comp

Several states have taken steps toward letting injured workers choose their own doctors, a trend experts say can affect costs and outcomes as a key element of medical control shifts away from employers and insurers. H.B. 1069, introduced Dec. 5 in Indiana, would amend state law to require employers after June 30, 2026, to pay for an “attending physician” selected…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 23, 2025
Workers' Compensation

Illinois to consider expanding presumptions to hospital staff

Illinois lawmakers have introduced legislation that would expand workers compensation presumptions to cover hospital security guards who develop certain illnesses or medical conditions linked to their jobs. H.B. 4226, introduced Thursday, would amend the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act to add hospital security guards to the list of public-facing safety workers eligible for rebuttable presumptions of compensability. The bill builds on…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 22, 2025
Personal Injury

23 NEC lawsuits vs baby formula makers tossed from Cook County court

Nearly two dozen lawsuits lodged by trial lawyers on behalf of out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to use Cook County's famously plaintiff-friendly courts to score potentially big judgments against baby formula makers don't belong in Illinois state court, a state appeals court has ruled. On Dec. 12, a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court granted a win to pharmaceutical…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 22, 2025
Workers' Compensation

Indiana bill would give injured workers doctor choice in comp cases

Indiana lawmakers are considering legislation that would give injured workers the right to choose their treating physician in workers compensation and occupational disease claims. H.B. 1069, introduced Friday, would amend Indiana law to require employers to pay for an “attending physician” selected by the employee after June 30, 2026, regardless of when the underlying injury or occupational disease occurred. Under…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 16, 2025
Personal Injury

Companies hit with hundreds of Lake County EtO lawsuits cry foul

A group of big medical device and chemical manufacturing companies are pushing back against attempts by trial lawyers to rope them into another big potential payout in the continuing legal actions over claims ethylene oxide emissions from factories and medical device sterilization plants in Lake County caused cancer. In motions and briefs filed in November and early December, the companies…
Etzler Lawhead Legal Group, PC
December 15, 2025

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