News published on Cook County Record in August 2015

A mother is suing a gas station, alleging negligence in a shooting that killed her daughter.

A Kendall County man is suing Menard's, alleging premises negligence in a trip and fall accident involving what he says was an unattended wooden pallet.

A mother is suing a Chicago hospital and attending physician on behalf of her minor daughter, alleging medical malpractice in an obstetric delivery led to life-threatening maternal-fetal complications.

A woman is suing five separate horticultural and maintenance companies in connection with a 2013 fall which she attributes to negligence involving water left on the floor of a public space.

A patient is suing his Cook County doctor and medical group, claiming medical malpractice in a 2014 procedure which allegedly resulted in infection requiring secondary surgery.

Saying the reasoning underpinning the case was “circular,” a federal judge on Aug. 3 threw out a lawsuit by a former convenience store employee who claimed she was never paid for overtime hours she worked, despite pay stubs showing “miscellaneous pay,” which ultimately may have meant she earned more than time-and-a-half for extra hours on the clock.

The family of a woman who died after she was struck by a train is suing Metra, claiming vehicular negligence and wrongful death in the fatal 2012 collision in Chicago.

Medical providers are seeking payment from litigators who disbursed claim proceeds to their former patient before paying for his medical services first.

A man's estate is suing over a bus accident in Mexico that allegedly caused him great injuries before death.

Three class actions pending against Facebook over the potential privacy implications of the social media site’s so-called tag suggestion feature have been relocated from Chicago’s federal courts to San Francisco’s. U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel on July 29 granted a request from Facebook, and supported by attorneys for the plaintiffs, to transfer the cases filed this spring in the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago to the Northern District of California.

A seafood wholesaler on Chicago’s West Side will need to continue to work under a federal consent decree governing how it runs its business for at least the next three years, a federal judge has ruled. Eastern Seafood Inc., which operates in the 1000 block of West Hubbard Street in the West Town neighborhood, failed in its bid to persuade a federal judge to end the arrangement ordered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002.

A woman allegedly injured after stepping into wet cement at a job site is suing the overseers of the site.

A man who suffered pain and serious infection for a year after a surgical procedure is suing two doctors and their practice and/or supervising medical institution for allegedly misdiagnosing his condition.

A high school cheerleader and her parents are suing a local high school, school district and cheerleading coach for not properly supervising her during camp, which allegedly led to her injuries while practicing an aerial move.

A Chicago federal judge has dismissed litigation brought against GE Capital by the trustee for a bankrupt lender who claimed the bank’s failure to publicly expose a Ponzi scheme before the scheme was halted by law enforcement cost the bankrupt lender millions of dollars in defaulted loans.