Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron dismissed Rush University Medical Center of Chicago from a medical malpractice case filed by Christopher Crnkovich in Madison County in July 2005.
Tracy Sanders of Chicago succeeded in switching from defendant to plaintiff in a Madison County highway crash case, but she failed to take advantage of the transition.
The Record newspaper and one of its reporters claim that a Madison County civil lawsuit brought by bankrupt attorney Gary Peel based on an article in the Record should be thrown out of court.
When attorney Lanny Darr sued Affirmative Insurance for trying to put him in a cheap rental vehicle, the insurer sent him a check for the nicer vehicle he ordered.
Two Chicago-area men filed separate lawsuits against Minnesota-based Medtronics in St. Clair County Nov. 30 over defective batteries in surgically implanted defribillators.
Illinois legislators are back in Springfield this week, and if pondering our state’s lagging economy they’d be best served to read Steve Korris’ investigation into Madison County’s latest asbestos lawsuit swoon.
Judge Janis Graham Jack In February, U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack of Texas characterized thousands of lawsuits filed by people claiming illness from asbestos and silica exposure as raising "great red flags of fraud."
Darrick Hibbler, who filed a retaliatory discharge suit against Kids Hope United, will be in Circuit Judge George Moran’s court Sept. 28, for a case management conference and a motion to amend his complaint.
Madison County Circuit Judge George Moran has recused himself from a class action lawsuit filed by a plaintiff who frequently appears before the court--Alton attorney Lanny Darr.
Saint Anthony’s Health Center in Alton has removed a Madison County class action suit to federal court after establishing that the proposed class could include Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Subway's Jared may have met his match.
The introduction of an innovative healthy eating program in the Metro-East is a unique solution for the common challenges faced by dieters, diabetics and families on the run.
Kesha Manning of Venice filed the first class action lawsuit in Madison County in more than a month against the owner of her apartment complex because of mold and fungus problems.
Brad Ringhofer, M.D. Three new physicians were added to the board of directors of the state's largest medical liability insurer, ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company, including Metro-East internist Brad Ringhofer, M.D.
A historian recently wrote that founding father Thomas Jefferson never enjoyed practicing law because “he grew to think of attorneys as lazy parasites who subsisted off the malice and avarice of others.”