A Cook County woman is suing county health care givers, alleging the doctors and hospital treating her mother for gangrene were negligent, leading to her death.
A Chicago federal judge has pulled the plug on a Cook County doctor's lawsuit, ruling the statute of limitations expired before he brought his action against John J. Stroger Hospital and county medical officials for allegedly firing and discriminating against him, because he is an Arab Muslim and blew the whistle on alleged fraud at the hospital.
A former nursing supervisor at one of Cook County's inmate units is suing over being terminated, allegedly in retaliation for raising a red flag about missing narcotics.
Nuclear pharmaceuticals company Triad Isotopes and a group of related defendants, who are being sued in federal court over claims they rigged bids to secure Cook County drug contracts, have succeeded in persuading a judge to dismiss three of seven counts against them.
Another Tinley Park woman is suing Jewel over claims she got sick after eating food she bought from the grocery store's deli.In the lawsuit she filed Feb. 17 in the Cook County Circuit Court, Janet Lewis alleges she purchased food from Jewel's deli on May 16,2014 and two days after consuming it, suffered severe gastrointestinal symptoms.She claims that the Cook County Health Department on June 11 learned
