News from March 2016
Man accuses doctor of negligence after colonoscopy
CHICAGO – A man is suing a gastroenterologist alleging that the doctor knowingly failed to properly evaluate and supervise his medical condition.
Woman sues property owner, alleges negligence caused mother's death
CHICAGO – A woman is suing a property owner over allegations of negligence after a fire caused the death of her mother.
General Mediterranean Holding says attorney missteps led to $18 million verdict in lawsuit over Rezko South Loop deal
An international real estate development group stung last year by a multi-million dollar jury award to a fellow investor who claimed the group cheated him out of millions in an allegedly underhanded deal with corrupt Illinois campaign financier Tony Rezko has itself filed suit against its former attorney, claiming missteps by the lawyer cost the group $18 million.
Mother sues over daughter's medical care
CHICAGO — A mother is suing a doctor and medical practice, claiming negligence in the failure to diagnose her daughter's imperforate anus.
Hospital, doctors sued in woman's death
CHICAGO — The independent administrator of a deceased woman's estate is suing several health-care providers in a case alleging wrongful death.
Suit against nursing home alleges wrongful death
CHICAGO — The independent executor of a deceased man's estate is suing a nursing home, alleging negligence and wrongful death.
IL college, university officials paint grim funding picture; Pensions 'sucking the air' out of higher ed
University presidents and other higher education officials have told lawmakers they must decide what they want from the state’s colleges and universities.
IL appeals panel says state within its rights to make convenience stores pay more cigarette tax
The Illinois First District Appellate Court has upheld a Cook County Circuit Court ruling that an increase in the state’s cigarette tax does not violate the state constitution. Casey’s Marketing Company, which operates hundreds of Casey’s General Store convenience stores, filed the initial complaint in the wake of state legislation in 2012 to roughly double the per cigarette tax charged to those who sell them.
Man sues medical center over fall, broken leg
CHICAGO — A man is suing a medical center, claiming that black ice in its parking lot caused him to fall and break his leg.
Nursing home, hospital targeted in wrongful death suit
CHICAGO — The independent administrator of a deceased man's estate has sued a nursing home and hospital over an allegation of wrongful death.
Former TGI Friday's workers dish out class action, say weren't paid earned vacation time
Two Chicago area women have dished out a potential wage-and-hour class action lawsuit against restaurant chain TGI Friday’s, alleging their former employer maintained a vacation pay policy that violated Illinois law, and did not properly pay employees who quit or were fired for the vacation time they had accumulated while they worked at the restaurants.
Estate of deceased woman sues hospital in alleged wrongful death
CHICAGO –– The next of kin of a deceased Cook County woman is suing a local hospital, alleging the hospital’s negligence lead to her death.
CPS sues indicted former CEO Byrd-Bennett, others involved in SUPES kickback scheme for $65 million
The Chicago Public Schools have filed suit against CPS’ former CEO, who pleaded guilty to charges she accepted bribes and kickbacks in return for steering contracts to a group of consultants and others, and her alleged co-conspirators, saying Barbara Byrd-Bennett and the others associated with The SUPES Academy and Synesi Associates conspired to defraud taxpayers and “the schoolchildren of Chicago.” CPS has demanded at least $65 million, combined, from all of the defendants named in the action
Ex-Argonne worker's lawsuit dismissed vs lab, DuPage Co for false arrest, wrongful firing
A former Argonne National Laboratory employee has struck out in his attempt to sue the lab and some DuPage County Sheriff's deputies for allegedly wrongly accusing him of theft, and then firing him.
Man sues care providers in case alleging wrongful death
CHICAGO — A man is suing several health-care providers in a case alleging wrongful death.
Man's suit claims injury connected to surgery
CHICAGO — A man is suing several health-care providers, alleging medical negligence.
Ex-Giordano's franchisee, who helped finance Leona's acquisition, says former lawyers' malpractice cost him millions
A Chicago area businessman, who was stripped of his rights to run two suburban Giordano’s restaurants amid a messy dispute with the pizza chain over his alleged financing of his relatives’ purchase of the competing Leona’s restaurant chain, has sued his former lawyer, claiming the attorney and his firm should pay for leaving him in the lurch just before arbitration proceedings that resulted in an arbitration judgment purportedly ordering him to pay Giordano’s millions.
Nursing home faces suit alleging wrongful death
CHICAGO — An independent administrator of a deceased woman's estate is suing a nursing home, alleging negligence and wrongful death.
Woman claims negligence by doctor, hospital
CHICAGO — A woman is suing a hospital and doctor, claiming she suffered a perforated viscus during a colectomy, and that medical personnel then failed to discover the cause of abdominal pain and the perforated viscus.
Woman sues nursing home in mother's death
CHICAGO — An administrator of the estate of a deceased woman is suing a nursing home, claiming that negligent acts including the administration of a morphine overdose led to the woman's death on April 15, 2015.