A debt collection company will not get a new trial or any reduction in a $2 million verdict it was ordered to pay to a woman who fended off a foreclosure action brought by the collector and who then sued the collector for improperly refusing to abide by a loan modification agreement the woman had negotiated with the FDIC before the collector purchased her debt.
A state appeals panel kept the door shut on a legal malpractice action brought against the firm of Cascino Vaughan by a family whose legal action over asbestos exposure was tossed, saying a circuit court was correct in finding that, no matter how plaintiffs juggled the calendar, they still brought their lawsuit too late. .
Story CopyA widow whose husband’s asbestos-related illness manifested more than 40 years after his last exposure cannot collect damages from the employer responsible for the exposure, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled.
A shipping company facing a federal lawsuit over claims it underpays its contracted owner-operators must release detailed contracts to the plaintiffs suing it, after a federal judge indicated she was unconvinced by the company’s arguments that producing the documents would create an undue burden. Plaintiff Thomas Mervyn is suing Atlas Van Lines, Inc., and Ace World Wide Moving & Storage Co., Inc.
A state appellate panel has decided a wrongful death lawsuit brought against a waste collection company over the death of a man whose car collided with a garbage truck near Belvidere should stay in Boone County, despite the desire of the man’s family to try the case in Cook County.
An appeals panel has upheld an $8 million judgment awarded to the family of a suburban woman killed by a truck along the side of Interstate 94 in 2010, rejecting a trucking company's claims it didn't get a fair trial and the trial judge made a number of mistakes. The First District Appellate Court in Chicago on Aug. 14 affirmed the jury verdict awarded to the family of Stacey L. McHale.
CHICAGO -- A local research institute is being compelled to testify about the relative dangers of cigarette smoke and asbestos-containing products for ongoing asbestos litigation before the New York Supreme Court.
