An Illinois state appeals panel rejected an attempt by hospital and health care system Advocate to use a so-called 'high-low' settlement offer to undo a portion of a $21M malpractice verdict. The appeals panel said the settlement offer wasn't sufficient under an Illinois state law establishing plaintiffs' right to pre-judgment interest
An Illinois appeals panel said a group of trucking companies should get a new trial in a rear-end crash case that left a woman severely injured because the woman's lawyers from the Allen Law Group may have used social media posts to improperly sway jurors
Chicago and gun control activists can revive their lawsuit against a now-closed Indiana gun shop for allegedly supplying illegal firearms to criminals in the city, a state appeals panel says. The decision overturns a Cook County judge's ruling, which had determined Illinois courts lacked jurisdiction in the dispute
A state appeals panel said the CTA owed no special duty to keep a watch out for or rescue a woman who had dropped down onto the tracks at the 69th Street Red Line station to retrieve the mobile phone she had dropped seconds before she was struck and killed by a train attempting an emergency stop
Plaintiffs have filed to appeal the ruling of a Cook County judge, who said a recent Illinois Supreme Court decision all but demolishes a class action lawsuit claiming the city has for more than a decade wrongly prosecuted distracted driving tickets through city administrative hearings, rather than in court
Medical device sterilizer Steris Isomedix said it should be allowed to attempt to force other companies who used EtO at sterilization plants in Lake County to share the potential payouts, when any of hundreds of lawsuits go to trial blaming emissions from the plant for cancers.
The court said the IL Human Rights Commission was OK to dismiss a complaint lodged by a man who claimed Fertility Clinics of Illinois illegally fired him from his post as finance director after finding out he had been indicted for financial crimes. The Commission had ruled the man was unresponsive and abandoned his case
A panel of Illinois state appeals court judges said the verdict came to a reasonable conclusion on product liability and the judge and jury didn't overstep during the trial or in ordering ConAgra to pay millions of dollars to a woman who was injured when the spray oil can exploded while she was cooking in a restaurant kitchen
Complaint hinges on broken website link from 2017, which prevented people from accessing information about the red light camera program, as required by state law. But the appeals court said they did not believe lawmakers intended for such technical violations to allow people to get out of tickets for running red lights
The number of appeals filed by criminal defendants seeking release from jail while they await trial dropped from 1,041 in January to mid-April to 154 in the three months following rule changes to ease the burden. The appeals numbers are still up significantly compared to years preceding Illinois' criminal justice system reforms
Taiwo F. Durowade has filed an appeal against Lenny’s Gas-N-Wash Sauk Trail after claiming negligence led to damage to her vehicle during a car wash visit in August 2020. Despite initial setbacks in court rulings regarding jury demands and instructions on negligent voluntary undertaking theories, she continues seeking justice through higher courts.
A recent ruling by an Illinois appellate court sided with Alma Chavez Rossi in her legal battle against Amos Financial LLC regarding improper filing claims over her late husband's estate debts.
Linda Kane’s attempt to secure unemployment benefits has been thwarted by both administrative decisions and court rulings asserting she voluntarily left her job without good cause attributable to her employer. Despite claims of wrongful termination and workplace misconduct at iCan Dream Center, multiple reviews upheld the denial based on substantial evidence suggesting otherwise.
Unanimous ruling holds there is a time limit on seeking refunds even when the city illegally collected the fines. The ruling could allow the city to keep more than $200 million collected from red light camera tickets which the city improperly collected.
An Illinois state appeals court has said federal judges were wrong to block potential big money class actions against online eyeglass sellers under Illinois' biometrics privacy law, saying an exclusion for 'health care' shouldn't apply to companies using 'virtual try-on' tools to sell non-prescription glasses
