Chicago State University has sued an insurance company, saying a court should force the insurer to help the school pay more than $4.2 million to satisfy a judgment resulting from a lawsuit brought by a former who claimed the university had wrongly fired him for exposing an attempt by the university's former president to improperly collect a pension.
Chicago-based international law firm Seyfarth Shaw and financial services firm Northern Trust has beaten back a federal RICO lawsuit, for now, after a federal judge said the president of an underwriting company didn’t do enough to establish the companies, engaged in racketeering when they allegedly misled him into running the tens of millions of dollars he received from the sale of his company stock through an abusive tax shelter scheme.
Chicago may be the next municipality to require employers in the city's limits to provide employees with paid sick leave, meaning employers should begin planning now for the implications of the new rules, including an increased risk of lawsuits, said a trio of local attorneys.
A Los Angeles-based chain of burger restaurants has found nothing savory about a North Side Chicago restaurant’s use of the word “umami” to describe its own spin on an Asian-inspired hamburger.
His bandmates may no longer want him, but the drummer for Cheap Trick will not yet need to surrender his claim the band has wrongfully denied him his cut of touring and merchandise money.