Victoria and Kyle McCarter Republican Kyle McCarter of Lebanon was selected Saturday by GOP chairmen of the district's nine counties to replace State Sen. Frank Watson (R-Greenville) in the state's 51st Senate District. Watson, who had suffered a stroke last year, stepped down Feb. 16.
The Illinois State Bar Association and its close ally, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, must have secret job forecasts for Illinois that are much rosier than the gloomy predictions almost universally accepted by economists and state and local governments.
Crowder A trial against Dynegy Midwest Generation is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Nov. 10, in Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's courtroom.
Crowder A trial against Dynegy Midwest Generation is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Oct. 6, in Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder's courtroom.
An Illinois woman has filed an asbestos suit on behalf of her recently deceased husband against 74 defendant corporations, claiming the lung cancer with which he was diagnosed was wrongfully caused.
Ed Murnane A legislative proposal designed to provide windfall recovery to plaintiffs in personal injury litigation is an "affront to fairness," said the president of the Illinois Civil Justice League, Ed Murnane.
A man injured while working on a bulldozer at the Dynegy Midwest Generation plant in Alton filed a personal injury suit seeking damages in excess of $50,000.
Two days after the world's largest maker of construction equipment lost a chance to transfer a Madison County asbestos case to Iowa, the company gained something better.