BELLEVILLE – Evansville Western Railway challenges St. Clair County jurisdiction over a suit from a former employee’s widow about a fatal tick bite near Okawville.
BENTON – Prairie State Generating and a Kentucky business settled a claim that exterior wall panels at Prairie State’s power plant in Washington County failed.
Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge has granted a defense motion to move an injury suit against Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to Macoupin County where a fatal railroad crossing accident occurred nearly three years ago.
Norfolk Southern Railway Co. is seeking to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a couple whose son was killed at a railroad crossing in February 2014 in Macoupin County.
A Collinsville rehab center denied liability and claims a disabled child’s own negligence was the sole cause of any injuries she allegedly suffered while attending a long-term care facility.
A tree cutter who originally sued a homeowner after he fell out of the tree while sawing off limbs has admitted that the defendant is not liable for his alleged injuries and that he climbed the tree of his own accord. Plaintiff Cody LaFarge’s May 29 admission states that he is not holding defendant Kelly Thurman responsible for him falling out of the tree on the defendant’s property. “At no time did Kelly direct me to climb into the tree."
A railroad corporation accuses a father of making vague allegations in a lawsuit following a traumatic freight train accident that claimed the lives of his wife and three children near the Vandalia Halloween parade in 2013.
