News published on Cook County Record in November 2018

A widow alleges the negligent care of two physicians and a hospital contributed to her husband's death.

The daughter of a former resident of a long-term nursing care facility in Chicago alleges pressure sores her mother developed at the facility contributed to her mother's death.

Two lawyers, described as “professional objectors” to class action settlements, will need to face a hearing and perhaps state disciplinary action, over their alleged attempt to secure a payoff, as a state appeals panel said they had essentially hidden behind a narrow interpretation of a court rule to deflect attempts to sanction them for taking “advantage of a situation described as ‘murky’ and with ‘unpredictable’ or ‘sporadic’ enforcement” to win potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time from other lawyers seeking to close the deal on their own million dollar paydays.

A woman who claimed her fall on the back steps of an apartment building was caused by an unnatural accumulation of ice has failed in her appeal to overturn a judge's decision in favor of the building owners.

A pizza company alleges a former franchise has violated an agreement by operating a shop with a similar menu.

An Addison woman is seeking damages from two airlines after she allegedly was injured in a plane crash in Mexico.

A patient's next-of-kin is seeking damages from a Chicago hospital after she suffered a brain injury while in its care.

The son of a former resident of a Bartlett long-term care facility alleges his mother died of dehydration while under its care.

A federal judge has halted, for now, a lawsuit in which fair housing advocates accused Deutsche Bank of trying to lower property values in minority neighborhoods.

A federal judge has cut up much of a man's lawsuit against a fitness club, saying he can't sue the club over unintentional erroneous charges the club later refunded.

A principal of a Chicago international school – seemingly popular with many students’ parents and others in the community - has filed suit against the city’s board of education, claiming the board is trying to remove him on unsubstantiated charges.

A Cook County resident alleges she was injured on a flight from Mexico to Chicago because of the weather conditions.

A state appeals court said a Lake County judge erred in overruling an Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation finding that a lawyer was wrong to act as both real estate agent and attorney in a single transaction.

Property owners in Evanston's Lakeshore Historic District are seeking review in a matter over new construction in the district.

A resident of Indonesia has filed suit against Chicago-headquartered Boeing over a plane crash in Indonesia last month that killed his son.

A fuel delivery driver has filed a class action lawsuit against his employer under an Illinois privacy law, claiming the company didn't obtain written consent before scanning his fingerprints for use with its punch clock system.

A wrongful death suit has been filed against a Bensenville long-term care nursing facility after a resident's choking-related death.

Judge refuses to shut down racial discrimination class action vs Chicago water department

The daughter of a former Evergreen Park long-term nursing care facility resident alleges the facility failed to protect her late mother from developing sores.

A national staffing company based in Frankfort alleges that a former sales manager in Texas is soliciting customers in violation of an agreement.