Robert and Anna Boettcher filed a legal malpractice suit against Alton attorney Jeffrey Weishaupt seeking more than $50,000 in damages They claim Weishaupt's negligence caused their pending lawusit to be dismissed.
Katonya Outlaw of Cahokia filed a 10-count lawsuit in St. Clair County Circui Court Jan. 18 against Metabolife and Walgreen's, alleging her use of the ephedra-based weight loss drug damaged her nervous and vascular systems.
Southern Illinois Railcar Company (SIRC), a Madison County railcar-leasing business, filed two separate lawsuits Dec. 23 for breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
Pfizer recently announced that it suspended use of its popular painkiller Celebrex in a cancer-prevention study after the medicine showed an increased risk of heart attacks.
Jo Elaine Foster & Associates, a 25-year-old firm based in Madison County, is merging into Midwest Litigation Services. Headquartered in St. Louis, Midwest is the largest court reporting and trial support firm in Missouri.
The family of a Collinsville man who was stabbed to death in the city's VFW on Feb. 28 is seeking $1.3 million from the bar owners and the men charged with his murder.
Fast Eddie’s Bon Air, an Alton hot spot known for its Big Elwood and ice cold beer, is facing big legal problems in Madison County for its involvement in a DUI-related accident.
Barbara Mihalich of Granite City filed a class action lawsuit against Pfizer on Friday alleging the drug maker violated the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
Seeking more than $300,000 in damages, Tammy Kent Delcourt of Mississippi, as special administrator to the estate of Christopher J. Kent, is suing those who came in contact with the Normal man after he had already been involved in a roll-over crash.
Earl Gori of Madison County and Michael Elward of Wabash County, Ind. are the newest members of a growing class of litigants seeking damages from Merck & Co. over the company's marketing of the recently recalled pain reliever, Vioxx.
Janet Heflin Janet Heflin, an Edwardsville family law attorney, received at least five votes on a first ballot to become Madison County's newest Associate Judge.
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.”
While shopping for landscaping stones at Ace Hardware in Bethalto on April 2, James Kannall, of Edwardsville, says one of the stones fell off the display onto his hand and fingers, severely and permanently injuring him.