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Judge yanks dentists' claims for insurance coverage for income lost to state COVID shutdowns
Virus exclusion in policy proves to be deciding factor in the COVID coverage dispute between Dental Experts practices and Massachusetts Bay Insurance. -
Melrose Park: Mayor Serpico should be excused from family's lawsuit accusing village of bogus citations, harassment
Melrose Park says Mayor Ron Serpico can't be sued by the family for the alleged harassment campaign, despite Serpico's viral video vulgar verbal badgering of one member of the family, because the village claims the mayor doesn't have the power to enact the ordinances the village says the family violated. -
HEPLERBROOM: DuChateau Named Editor in Chief of Legal Journal
James DuChateau has been named Editor in Chief of IDC Quarterly, the journal of the Illinois Defense Counsel (IDC). -
Nurse staffing firm Heartland to pay $5.4M to end biometrics class action over worker fingerprint scans
Settlement pool could include more than 10,000 employees, who could get $320 each -
'Threat to everybody:' Townstone says feds mean to make example of them to expand regulatory power over lenders
Townstone Financial President Barry Sturner said he intends to continue fighting a federal regulatory complaint he said appears intended to chill speech federal agents disapprove of, under the rubric of fighting discrimination. -
Fifth Third Bank, executives win end of investor class action, for now, over unauthorized accounts
Judge says complaint doesn't show bank leaders knew all the details of federal investigation when addressing shareholders -
Townstone Financial: Fed action stretches law to let feds impose hiring quotas, dictate marketing, silence speech
Mortgage lender Townstone FInancial has asked a federal court to dismiss an action from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, accusing Townstone of discrimination for "discouraging" potential Black applicants on radio shows and insufficient marketing aimed at Black people -
Pritzker to appeal federal judge's refusal to lift fed oversight of IL state government hiring practices
A federal judge had denied Pritzker's attempt to end court-appointed oversight of Illinois government hiring practices, saying there was still too much evidence of politically motivated hiring and promotion within agencies under the governor's supervision -
HEPLERBROOM: Banasek to Speak to Chicago Risk Management Group
Tammy Banasek is one of the featured speakers at the annual meeting of the Chicagoland Healthcare Risk Management Society. She and Mary Foote, a registered nurse with Woundcare on Wheels, will discuss the COVID Wound – Not Your Facility Acquired Injury. -
Exelon, ComEd execs can't convince judge to cancel investor fraud lawsuit over alleged Madigan bribery scheme
Federal judge says the shareholder plaintiffs have done enough so far to demonstrate ComEd allegedly willfully concealed the alleged bribery scheme from its shareholders. -
Appeals panel won't lift federal oversight of hiring at Cook Clerk's office, for now
7th Circuit says reform advocates have identified potentially corrupt hiring practices, but four-decades-old federal oversight of county hiring practices needs to move toward conclusion -
SHOOK HARDY & BACON LLP: Shook Partner Testifies on BIPA Bill Before Illinois Lawmakers
Shook Partner Melissa Siebert spoke before Illinois lawmakers in favor of a bill that would assist Illinois employers hard hit by a surge in lawsuits under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). -
HUSCH BLACKWELL LLP: Speaker, "Legal Issues Related to School Desegregation and the Promotion of Diverse School Enrollments," COSA 2021 School Law Online Seminar
John Borkowski and Aleks Rushing will present, "Legal Issues Related to School Desegregation and the Promotion of Diverse School Enrollments" at COSA’s 2021 School Law Online Seminar on April 21, 2021. -
WILSON ELSER: Anjali Das of Wilson Elser Named to Cybersecurity Docket Incident Response 40 2021
National law firm Wilson Elser announced that Anjali Das, a partner in the Chicago office, has been named to the Cybersecurity Docket Incident Response 40 2021, the digital publication’s annual list of the 40 best data breach attorneys. -
Time clock maker Kronos wants class action halted while appeals courts mull limits on IL biometrics class actions
A maker of workplace time clocks, which is facing a massive class action under Illinois biometric law, has asked a Chicago federal judge to pause the suit while two appellate panels address questions in two other cases that could affect the Kronos suit and other similar actions. -
Sandoval attorney wants deceased state senator's name nixed from SW suburb red light camera class action
An attorney for the late former state Sen. Martin Sandoval says the convicted politician should be dropped from a corruption class action over suburban red light cameras, saying the plaintiffs didn't swap Sandoval's estate for the deceased senator soon enough. -
BIPA reform would allow businesses to comply before ‘gotcha’ lawsuits filed, witness says
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois businesses pay employees $1,000 or more to settle claims that they violated data privacy law, according to statements at an April 12 hearing on a bill to change the law. -
Magistrate who oversaw discovery in Chicago's opioid lawsuit recuses himself, at city's request
Judge Kim's sister is a lawyer for pharma defendant, which lawyers for the city of Chicago said presents unavoidable conflict. The drug makers argued the recusal was unncessary, and will serve to only again "disrupt" the already lengthy court proceedings over the city's lawsuit. -
Restaurant, retail advocates urge appeals panel to limit 'absurd,' 'grossly excessive' reach of IL biometrics law
Retail and restaurant associations have asked the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to side with White Castle in a dispute over "absurd" sums that class action plaintiffs can demand in lawsuits under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. -
Whole Foods can't be sued in Illinois for selling bottled water with too much arsenic: Judge
Whole Foods' promotion of the Starkey Water product on its website is not enough to allow the Texas-based company to face a class action in Illinois courts, under Illinois law, a federal judge ruled.