Northern Illinois' largest electrical utility was hit with two class action lawsuits, demanding it repay its customers perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly using a bribery scheme to curry favor with Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to pass laws that allowed it to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in profit, since at least 2011.
Nationally respected personal injury law firm Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, announced that Attorney David A. Neiman was named to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Board of Managers. He has been involved as a member of the organization on the Board of Advocates since 2016.
State and federal agencies approved operations at a medical device sterilization facility in suburban Willowbrook, the company argues in documents again asking a court to dismiss lawsuits alleging the plant's emissions caused cancer.
Owners of Maillard Tavern, Billy Goat Tavern, Big Onion Tavern, Legacy Hospitality, and others, have each filed lawsuits seeking to compel Society Insurance to cover their business interruption claims amid the COVID-19 shutdown orders.
The number of lawsuits has again surged against Sterigenics, even as the company seeks to dismiss them by asserting the public nuisance suits are thwarted by federal and state emissions regulation.
Sterigenics has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss a host of personal injury lawsuits against it, asserting the law does not allow it to be sued for its emissions of ethylene oxide, because the emissions were regulated by the government
A former CTA bus driver who spent nine years mostly on medical leave before he eventually was fired will have to do a better job in a third attempt to sue the CTA, a federal judge recently ruled.
A federal judge has refused to sign off on allowing a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against Ford Motor Company by a group of female factory workers to continue as a class action.
Lawyers leading a growing number of lawsuits vs Sterigenics say the medical device sterilizer can easily substitute another sterilization method for ethylene oxide. The FDA and medical device makers seem less certain.
Days after a federal judge ruled Cook County courts could hear the lawsuits brought against medical device sterilization company Sterigenics, the number of lawsuits accusing the company of causing cancer has tripled in one day.
Medical device sterilization company Sterigenics will need to defend itself in Cook County court against a host of lawsuits brought by trial lawyers on behalf of people living in communities surrounding Sterigenics’ Willowbrook facility, as the judge said the company's compliance with federal clean air rules don't protect it from the lawsuits accusing the company of releasing emissions the lawsuits say caused the plaintiffs' cancer.
As federal environmental regulators reassess their controversial measurements of emissions from the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook, a group of lawyers representing Willowbrook residents are continuing unfazed in their lawsuits against the company, based largely on findings in a federal report that relied heavily on the allegedly faulty data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Saying plaintiffs are asking the courts to essentially rewrite federal environmental laws and regulatory rules based on a single report issued by a federal agency relying on faulty data, medical device sterilizer Sterigenics has asked a federal judge to corral a stampede of lawsuits that have hit the courts in recent weeks amid a blizzard of media reports asserting the company’s use of a key sterilizing agent at its facility in suburban Willowbrook could cause cancer.
A state appeals court says law firm Romanucci & Blandin can’t necessarily use the Illinois frauds statute to escape a lawsuit brought by another lawyer who claimed their refusal to pay her $7,000 in fees violated a deal she had struck with one of the firm's clients to represent that client’s husband in court and be paid from funds the client would win in the settlement of a lawsuit being prosecuted by an attorney from the Romanucci & Blandin firm.