An accident victim who was awarded over $1.3 million for the loss of his right foot in an accident is seeking additional money. This time in the form of sanctions against an insurance company he claims bribed a witness.
Hylla After deliberations stretched late into the night Friday, a Madison County jury awarded plaintiff Steven Kirk more than $1.375 million for injuries he suffered in a motorcycle accident.
A Madison County jury was unable to begin deliberations Thursday in an Alton foot amputation and accident suit due to witness travel schedules that require more testimony Friday morning.
Hylla A motorcyclist plaintiff in a Madison County personal injury trial claims he bears no responsibility for an accident which required the amputation of his right foot.
Hopkins The Nobel Committee has now made a once distinguished award an international joke. There have been honorees in the past recognized primarily as homage to their political views -- think of Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, or U.N. crook Kofi Annan -- but at least they had a lifetime of work in the leftist vineyards to deflect the critics' objection.
Donovan MOUNT VERNON – Godfrey village trustees can't hide appraisals of land they needed for the Crosstown Road project after quoting the appraisals at a public hearing, Fifth District appeals judges ruled.
The scheduled trial of a negligence suit against Wildfire Restaurant and the company that owns it is off. The suit settled in late August. The trial had been scheduled to open before Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack at 9 a.m. Monday.
Schmieder Cincinnati Insurance and Cincinnati Casualty will pay Illinois medical providers at least $4,275,000 in a class action settlement that Madison County Circuit Judge Barbara Crowder approved on Sept. 3.
Wisconsin jurors found that Edwardsville trucking company owner Tom Buske stole millions from household products maker S.C. Johnson, but he pleads that he shouldn't have to give the money back because it would leave his family penniless.