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Jury orders Avon to pay $24M to former janitor with mesothelioma

By Jonathan Bilyk | Wednesday, Jul 31, 2024 @ 11:00pm

After a month-long trial, a Cook County jury said Avon owes $24.4 million because the man allegedly contracted mesothelioma lung cancer from being exposed to asbestos-contaminated talc products at the company's Morton Grove facility in the 1980s
Trial lawyers keep funding Madigan political war chest, despite bribery scandal; $161K donated in September

By Jonathan Bilyk | Friday, Sep 25, 2020 @ 1:24pm

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is also chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois, has been implicated in a federal bribery investigation. Trial lawyers, however, continue to donate money to Madigan's campaign organization.
Politically generous lawyers poised to take billions from opioid settlement

By Daniel Fisher | Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020 @ 1:07pm

CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Their request for some $3 billion in fees has generated fierce resistance from state attorneys general and defendants, but don’t worry about the financial states of private lawyers who represent thousands of municipal plaintiffs in opioid litigation.