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With billions of dollars at stake, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to settle the question of whether trial lawyers can continue using U.S. state courts in Missouri, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and elsewhere to rack up big money verdicts against Bayer Monsanto over claims the company's popular Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. On Jan. 16, the high court granted the appeal…

The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments on whether Greenwood Park Mall’s owner and its contracted security company can be sued for negligence over a mass shooting, or whether such attacks are unforeseeable as a matter of law and therefore bar liability before discovery begins. The case arises from the July 2022 mass shooting at the Greenwood Park…

Boeing has settled another of the lawsuits lodged against the company as a result of a 2019 airliner crash in Ethiopia. On Jan. 14, attorneys with the firm of Clifford Law, of Chicago, announced the settlement on behalf of their client, a Canadian man identified as Manant Vaidya, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to a release from Clifford Law, the…

A split Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act does apply to claims in a class-action lawsuit brought in Elkhart Superior Court on behalf of patients against an unspecified hospital. The high court affirmed the lower court’s ruling on the application of the MMA, but reversed the trial court’s denial of the patients’ motion for class certification.…

The Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to hear an Evansville church’s argument that it was not liable for a volunteer’s injuries because it was protected by a state law that generally holds churches harmless in certain situations when accidents occur on church property. In April, the Indiana Court of Appeals rejected the argument and ruled that the protections apply only…

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…

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…

A Maryville woman who slipped and fell at a Collinsville Schnucks supermarket while she was allegedly running to get help for a store worker who had suffered a seizure in the parking lot is suing Schnucks, saying they should pay for her injuries because store managers had assigned the worker to gather carts from the parking lot, even though they…