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.
BENTON – Jurors in U.S. district court awarded Thiems Construction of Roxana $1 million in punitive damages on April 8, finding its former insurer United Fire put its own interest ahead of the company’s interest.
Neal Gerber Eisenberg (NGE) is pleased to announce that Corporate & Securities Group Chair Robert G. Gerber has been named the third managing partner in the firm’s 35-year history.
BELLEVILLE — A proposed class action suit alleges a Sara Lee brand of blueberry waffles are falsely labeled as free of artificial flavors and preservatives.
Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine formed a new Cross-River Crime Task Force in response to crime flowing from across the river into Madison County.
Supreme Court Justice David Overstreet announced Thursday that Amy E. Sholar will fill retired Circuit Judge Richard Tognarelli’s vacancy in the Third Judicial Circuit.
Madison County Associate Judge Tom Chapman denied a pro se plaintiff's request to reconsider consolidating his lawsuits against Glen Carbon and several Madison County officials after he argued he should be granted three separate judges to hear the cases individually.
Rev. David Goins was elected mayor for the City of Alton during the April 6 municipal election with 2021 votes in ‘21, making history as Alton’s first African American mayor.
Third Judicial Circuit Chief Judge William Mudge was unanimously re-elected for another two-year term as chief judge by the sitting circuit judges of both Madison and Bond counties.
BENTON – Trial began at U.S. district court on April 5, on a claim that United Fire and Casualty put its interest ahead of the interest of Thiems Construction Company at a Madison County property damage trial in 2013.
BENTON – Senior U.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert ordered Edwardsville lawyer Brian Wendler to pay fees and costs for defendants that litigated in the wrong court for seven months due to an error he committed.
District Judge Staci Yandle denied McKinsey & Company’s requests to transfer an opioid lawsuit and strike Madison and St. Clair County’s motions to remand the suit, which alleges the global marketing firm contributed to the opioid crisis through OxyContin marketing techniques.
Illinois has more units of local government than any other state and the second-highest property taxes in the nation. House Bill 1861 would have given Illinoisians the power to potentially reduce both at the ballot box. Illinois is home to nearly nearly 6,000, layers of government, excluding school districts – over 1,000 more than Indiana,...
EAST ST. LOUIS – Badger Mutual Insurance doesn’t have to cover lockdown losses at Aviston Family Restaurant, U.S. District Judge David Dugan ruled on March 23.
A Chicago church had sought an order preventing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker from reimposing restrictions on religious gatherings over COVID-19. Pritzker has pledged not to do so, but won't disavow the powers he asserted last spring.
In January 2021, the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation that seeks to dramatically change the law in Illinois with respect to an award of prejudgment interest in personal injury lawsuits.
Both Madison and St. Clair Counties filed a motion to remand a lawsuit alleging McKinsey & Company contributed to the opioid crisis through OxyContin marketing techniques based on arguments that a Belleville doctor is properly joined as a defendant.
“The state must pare back its portfolio so that it can better fulfill its basic obligations to its citizens,” opined Nicole Kurokawa in the 2010 Illinois Piglet Book, a joint project of the Illinois Policy Institute and Citizens Against Government Waste that identified more than $350 million in wasteful spending.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Badger Mutual Insurance doesn’t have to cover lockdown losses of Big Daddy’s bar in Belleville, U.S. District Judge David Dugan ruled on March 22.
