Maas WASHINGTON - The majority of Americans say federal lawmakers ought to make it more difficult for allegedly aggrieved patients to sue for medical malpractice, a poll Thursday indicates.
Ivan Gomez of Fairmont City is suing the mobile home park where his wife, children and uncle perished in a fire on April 8, just three days after the family moved in.
Thirty-six plaintiffs from across the country have joined in a St. Clair County lawsuit against Eli Lilly and Co. claiming they were diagnosed with diabetes or related illness while taking the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
$54 million pants under guard WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The owners of a Washington, D.C. dry cleaning business got some relief at a legal defense fund-raiser Tuesday night as guests from around the country turned out to help their brethren.
Attorney John Driscoll A Chicago plaintiff claiming she suffered an eye infection from using a recalled Bausch & Lomb contact solution has filed a product liability suit in St. Clair County.
Judge Robert Dierker appeared on Fox News "O'Reilly Factor" Tuesday. St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert Dierker infuriated critics and inspired supporters when his controversial new book "Tyranny of Tolerance" was released last week.
Amiel Cueto Amiel Cueto, a disbarred Belleville lawyer who spent six years in prison for shielding the $48 million gambling empire of his client Thomas Venezia, lost a last chance to regain his law license.
Facing its first federal trial of 7,000 such product liability cases nationwide, a Merck & Co. executive testified Tuesday that the "overhwelming majority" of company officials wanted to keep the popular pain-relieving drug, Vioxx, on the market.
On the hunt for the campaign cash that thrust him into office, Governor Rod Blagojevich promised Illinois’ deep-pocketed plaintiff’s bar he was no friend of tort reform.
The hard-to-believe behavior of Illinois Senate Democrats last week reveals two facts that advocates of medical liability reform -- indeed any kind of civil justice reform -- need to come to grips with.
"The Supreme Court race was a referendum on the medical liability crisis. Voters in southern Illinois and the hospital community sent a clear message to the Governor, legislative leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers: Time is running out - doctors are leaving and patients are being harmed. Meaningful medical liability reform