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Pharmaceutical and medical device maker Baxter Healthcare has reportedly agreed to settle at least 38 lawsuits accusing the company over emissions which allegedly caused cancer in people living near its manufacturing and distribution facility in suburban Round Lake. Attorneys from the firm of Edelson P.C., of Chicago, revealed the settlement in motions filed in Cook County Circuit Court. Baxter is…

Indiana Supreme Court justices are weighing whether a lawsuit can move forward against the owner of the Greenwood Park Mall and its security company related to a deadly 2022 food court shooting. The court heard arguments Thursday from attorneys for Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group and security contractor Universal Protection Service, who maintain the lawsuit should be dismissed because such attacks…

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…