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Two women who joined a wide-ranging MDL against Cook Medical did not allege injuries more than the jurisdictional minimum of $75,000, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in vacating the district court’s grant of summary judgment in Cook’s favor. The plaintiffs in the two cases consolidated in a multidistrict litigation proceeding, Shirley Parton and Teresa Sykes, each alleged…

Seafood restaurant group Red Lobster LLC could not net a reversal from the Court of Appeals of Indiana on a ruling denying its motion for summary judgment in a negligence case. In May 2017, Abigail Fricke filed a Chapter 13 petition for bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana. That September, the bankruptcy court entered…

Shell Oil Company and eight other oil companies are being sued by Madison County resident Sunan Lamka. The additional defendants are as follows: BP Products North America, Inc.; Phillips 66 Company; Premcor Refining Group, Inc.; HWRT Oil Company, LLC; Apex Oil Company, LLC; Atlantic Richfield Company; Sinclair Oil Corporation; and Equilon Enterprises, LLC. According to the official case filing, Lamka…

Missouri resident Mary Wllie is suing the City of Collinsville doing business as Gateway Convention Center for indirectly causing her serious injury. On July 9, 2022, Willie was in the convention center as an invitee attending a convention. During that time, Willie tripped and fell on convention area flooring that was buckled and uneven. According to the official case filing,…

An insurance policy that covered seven vehicles, each with a $1 million per-accident limit, doesn’t provide $7 million in liability coverage for a fatal crash that involved only one of the covered vehicles, an Illinois appellate court ruled Thursday. A panel of the Illinois 4th District Appellate Court reversed a McLean County Circuit Court decision that found ambiguous language on…

A shopper is suing Walmart after he was allegedly struck by a cart being pushed by an employee while at a Sparta store. Plaintiff James Gantner filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Wal-Mart Inc. and an employee, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, Gantner was a patron at a Walmart store in Sparta on May…

A wrongful death lawsuit alleges that a patient died from an overdose after his physician mistakenly wrote him a prescription for a toxic amount of Prednisone. Plaintiff Theresa L. Smith, acting as special administrator of the estate of John R. Brumley, Jr., filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against the Walgreen Co., Physician Groups,…

A former employee of Nu Way Concrete Forms in Troy claims that he was fired for seeking worker's compensation benefits after being injured in the job. Plaintiff Shaun Sunfield filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against Nu Way Concrete Forms Troy, LLC, citing retaliatory discharge. According to the lawsuit, Sunfield was formerly employed by Nu Way Concrete…

Crane operator Brent McKinnon has filed a lawsuit against his supervisor, Phillips 66 Crane Supervisor Andy J. Elam, alleging that Elam failed to maintain proper equipment standards. "Aforesaid negligence of defendant Elam directly and proximately caused Plaintiff to suffer severe and permanently disabling and disfiguring injuries," the lawsuit alleges. On December 6, McKinnon was operating a crane that collapsed at…