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  Road contractor plans to appeal $8.1 million jury verdict

  By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Apr 3, 2018 @ 12:10pm

  BENTON – Southern Illinois Asphalt plans to challenge a jury verdict holding it liable for $8,169,512.84 on a misrepresentation claim.

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  Jurors award family $8.1 million in trial involving company’s failure to disclose all insurance

  By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Mar 27, 2018 @ 1:05pm

  BENTON – Jurors in U.S. district court awarded a family more than $8 million on a claim that Southern Illinois Asphalt misrepresented its insurance when negotiating with them in prior litigation.

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  Threat of sanctions lifted as trial against road builders gets under way in Benton

  By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018 @ 7:04am

  BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle forgave defendants for filing a frivolous motion as trial approached, finding they acted in desperation and not in bad faith.

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  Trial starts March 19 in road contractors’ fraud case; Yandle again rejects Murphy report

  By The Madison County Record | Wednesday, Mar 14, 2018 @ 7:58am

  BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle rejected expert testimony of former district judge Patrick Murphy about two weeks before he would have testified for road builders defending a fraud claim.

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  Yandle sets trial March 19 in lawsuit involving value of wrongful death claim

  By The Madison County Record | Tuesday, Feb 20, 2018 @ 1:50pm

  BENTON – U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle has set trial in a wrongful death claim that previously settled for $1 million in the plaintiff’s home state of Washington, but which was later revived in Illinois court where the family claimed it could have settled for much more.

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