Sterigenics
Recent News About Sterigenics
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IL Sup Ct to decide if insurers can avoid covering companies hit with lawsuits over permitted emissions
A federal appeals panel has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to answer the murky legal question of whether insurers can use 'pollution exclusion' clauses to avoid paying legal defense costs for companies, like Sterigenics, hit with massive lawsuits over emissions that never broke any laws or regulations -
Court filing: Griffith Foods to pay $48M to settle hundreds of lawsuits over Willowbrook EtO emissions
A formal settlement hasn't yet been filed in court, but Alsip-based Griffith Foods has asked a Cook County judge for permission to transfer $48 million into an escrow account in preparation to settle hundreds of lawsuits connected to the Sterigenics litigation -
Sterigenics OKs $408M settlement to end 870 lawsuits over Willowbrook plant EtO emissions
The company said it maintains its emissions did not cause cancer, as claimed by the lawsuits. But Sterigenics wants to cut its expenses and not risk any more big losses in court, like a $363 million verdict entered last fall, which the company appealed -
Cook County judge won't upset $363M verdict awarded to one woman in first Sterigenics EtO exposure trial; Sterigenics vows appeal
Willowbrook woman Susan Kamuda has blamed her cancer diagnosis on emissions from Sterigenics' now-shuttered Willowbrook medical device sterilization plant -
Jury says Sterigenics not liable for woman's cancer, in second trial over Willowbrook EtO emissions
The verdict comes two months after a different jury ordered Sterigenics to pay $363 million to a different woman, also over claims Sterigenics' emissions allegedly caused her cancer. Sterigenics still faces hundreds of other similar lawsuits. -
Sterigenics: Judge erred in combining EtO emissions cases, should be handled more like asbestos cases
Sterigenics, facing about 830 lawsuits worth potentially billions of dollars altogether, says a Cook County judge's decision to allow plaintiffs to consolidate their cases into groups for trial clashes with how the courts have handled other kinds of lawsuits over industrial toxins, like asbestos -
Sterigenics: $363 million verdict in cancer suit over EtO emissions based wrongly on 'passion' and 'class prejudices'
A company that sterilized medical equipment in suburban Willowbrook is asking a Cook County judge to toss a verdict that could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly causing a woman's cancer. -
Jury verdict: Sterigenics, related cos. owe $363M to woman in first Willowbrook EtO cancer trial
Medical device sterilization company Sterigenics says it plans to appeal the verdict. Plaintiffs said they hope the verdict sets a "precedent" for hundreds of other cases still pending vs Sterigenics -
Facing hundreds of emissions lawsuits, Sterigenics entitled to help with legal bills from insurer
Federal judge grants summary judgment in favor of companies linked to cancerous toxins -
IL Supreme Court denies Sterigenics plaintiffs' bid to slap hold on first trial over EtO emissions
Plaintiffs suing medical device sterilizer Sterigenics had sought to shut down the first trial over whether Sterigenics' emissions caused cancer, saying a Cook County judge had abused her discretion in rejecting their attempts to bring the cases to trial together, rather than individually -
Judge nixes bid by Sterigenics, other corporate defendants to avoid trial, risk of bigger payouts for EtO emissions
A Cook County judge denied requests from medical device sterilization company Sterigenics and other defendants, including Griffith Foods, for summary judgment as the first trial date approaches over claims the companies allowed emissions from a Willowbrook plant that allegedly caused cancer -
Sterigenics plaintiffs ask IL Supreme Court to step in to upend Cook judge's rulings
The plaintiffs call Cook County judge's decisions 'absurd and antithetical to ... prompt justice,' and denial of their clients' rights to prompt trials -
Sterigenics plaintiffs to ask IL Supreme Court to step into dispute over how looming trial will proceed
Hundreds of lawsuits are pending, claiming EtO emissions from Sterigenics caused cancer in Willowbrook. The first trial is scheduled to begin next month -
Equity firm GTCR, formerly headed by Rauner, says it never owned, operated Sterigenics, should exit EtO suits
Lawsuits accusing Sterigenics' emissions of causing cancer have long included GTCR as a co-defendant, which enabled current Gov. JB Pritzker to blame former Gov. Bruce Rauner in the 2018 campaign. GTCR says it only advised other investors associated with Sterigenics' parent -
Judge nixes bid from Griffith Foods to toss Willowbrook EtO suits; Hundreds of identical lawsuits filed since
More than 460 lawsuits have been filed in Cook County court against Griffith Foods since a judge refused Griffith's attempt to dismiss claims asserting they should be liable for ethylene oxide emissions from the former Sterigenics medical sterilization plant in Willowbrook -
Sterigenics says insurer wrongly used emissions claims to deny coverage for lawsuits over emissions
Medical device sterilization company Sterigenics has sued National Union Fire Insurance in Chicago federal court, saying all of its emissions were discharged legally under an Illinois state environmental permit. -
Air monitoring for five Illinois cities to be considered by lawmakers at JCAR hearing
Illinois lawmakers will consider a requirement that ambient air in or around five cities be monitored for ethylene oxide levels during a meeting of the the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) Tuesday morning. -
Plaintiffs' lawyers file 600 more personal injury lawsuits vs Sterigenics, now also suing Griffith Foods
Alsip-based Griffith Foods says it has had nothing to do with the shuttered Willowbrook sterilization plant for more than 20 years. -
Sterigenics says shouldn't be allowed to be sued for emissions approved by state, federal agencies
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. -
EPA in-fighting goes public over need for more forums to discuss alleged health risks from sterilization plants, chemical factories
Recommendations for more forums, which have been dominated at times by activists, came from the EPA inspector general amid calls from the FDA to reopen sterilization facilities to boost medical supplies to fight COVID-19