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.
The label 'hellhole' may grab the headlines. But the American Tort Reform Association's (ATRA) “Judicial Hellholes” report is more about substance than name calling.
Editor's Note: The following letter to the editor is addressed to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in response to its Dec. 10 editorial which criticized the MCR. Its writer submitted a copy for publication here.
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.
A trial date for Michael O'Brien, an Illinoisan suffering from mesothelioma, has been set exactly a year after the former sheet metal and postal worker was diagnosed with a deadly disease caused by asbestos exposure.
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.
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.”
Recently, U.S. Representative Jerry Costello (D-Belleville) penned an editorial discussing Illinois' high unemployment rate and the fact that Illinois is behind the rest of the country with respect to job growth.