A former patient is suing Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service Inc. for allegedly taking insufficient measures to prevent him from falling off a stretcher while being moved to a hospital bed.
Seeking to block a potential agribusiness monopoly, U.S. federal regulators filed a civil complaint Aug. 31 in federal court in Chicago against John Deere and Monsanto over Deere's planned acquisition of a Monsanto subsidiary that makes high-tech planters.
Employers in Chicago will have to provide paid sick leave to employees starting next year because of a recently passed ordinance, and they could face a real risk of being sued, if they are not careful in crafting policies that closely comply with the new rules.
For the moment, Naperville doesn’t have to worry about a patent lawsuit regarding its new utility meters after a federal judge in Chicago granted the city’s motion to dismiss the complaint.
A physical therapist who alleged she and potentially more than 100 others like her were not paid the overtime wages due them will be allowed to proceed with her federal class action wage lawsuit against her former employer.
A group of app-dispatched food delivery drivers have served Chicago-based GrubHub with a class action, saying the company has wrongly classified them as contractors, when they should qualify as employees under the law.
The village of Lombard is the only one of more than a dozen municipalities suing 13 online travel sites to come out a winner, after a federal judge ruled that the sites do not need to pay additional taxes to the other villages and cities.
A high-profile lactation consultant is accusing a California blogger of infringing her intellectual property and publicity rights in a federal lawsuit filed in Chicago, alleging the blogger wronged her in response to the lactation expert’s request to no longer associate with the blogger following the blogger’s decision to associate with infant feeding products the lactation expert did not support.
CHICAGO—A Wisconsin truck driver is suing a property owner, property manager, tenant and contractor over injuries he allegedly sustained on the defendants' premises.
An order of Catholic nuns has filed a federal lawsuit against McHenry County for rejecting their proposal to expand facilities at their Northern Illinois Convent, and the case could have farther-reaching repercussions, as the country continues to grapple with questions over the rights of religious adherents and their organizations.
A hospital, two Universities, and employees are being sued after a women suffered the loss of a kidney. Sandra, and Delmar Anderson filed a suit on Sep. 18, 2015 against Rush University Medical Center, University Neurosurgeons, Rush University, and employees Michael Chen, M.D., and Valerie Toll, N.P., for damages the plaintiffs allege was caused by their negligence.
A federal judge in Chicago has rejected an attempt by residents of a west suburban community to win relief after their city’s municipal electric utility was forced to increased rates and taxes because a downstate electricity supplier had allegedly misled the city, and, by extension, its electric utility customers and residents, about the electricity it would supply.
Two female former workers have hit the Rosebud Restaurants group with yet another discrimination action, alleging management at the restaurant group’s nine Chicago area restaurants subjected them and other women employed by the group to “pervasive and systematic sexual harassment and discriminatory practices,” including obscene name-calling, groping of their bodies, exposure to hard-core pornography in the work place, catcalling, and repeated sexual overtures and invitations from managers to eng
An outspoken professor embroiled in a dispute with the University of Illinois over the loss of his job after he posted controversial tweets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be allowed to proceed with a breach of contract action against the school. A federal judge in Chicago last week ruled on several counts of the lawsuit Steve Salaita filed against the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
A group of Minor League baseball players who are suing Major League Baseball over how baseball pays its minor leaguers has asked a judge to force the Chicago White Sox, as well as seven other MLB franchises, to turn over a number of documents related to how minor leaguers work, train, travel and are paid.
