The Mad Hatter is amusing audiences all across the country and soon even more March Madness will hit the airwaves during the upcoming NCAA Championship Basketball Tournament.
Hopkins Doctors in the Metro East have been consistently abused by their own captive insurance carrier, the Illinois State Medical Insurance Exchange - (ISMIE). Rates were set without regulation, and were naturally raised without remorse.
Tillery Both parties in a series of proposed Madison County water contamination class actions have filed supporting materials in their struggle over venue.
Murnane SPRINGFIELD (Legal Newsline)-Illinois lawmakers will not likely give voters the opportunity -- at least this year -- to allow the General Assembly to adopt caps on medical malpractice awards, a leading tort reform advocate said.
Cueto GREENBELT, Md. - Disbarred lawyer Amiel Cueto of Belleville, who served prison time on a conviction for obstructing justice, accuses employees of American Bank Holding Inc. of the same crime.
Michael and Cynthia Anderson of Belleville are objecting to a petition filed by their former attorney who wants to keep a $1,600 retainer fee that St. Clair County Circuit Judge Patrick Young ordered be returned.
Murnane WASHINGTON - A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week could put a damper on the trial lawyer practice of filing lawsuits, particularly class actions, in vaguely related jurisdictions where judges are seen as plaintiff-friendly.
Luechtefeld State Sen. Dave Luechtefeld (R-Okawville) has introduced a constitutional amendment to keep the Illinois Supreme Court from overturning future medical malpractice reform laws.
U.S. Supreme Court building WASHINGTON - Three major tobacco companies are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a racketeering verdict against cigarette makers over the marketing of so-called light cigarettes.
Schottel A status hearing in a wrongful death suit brought by the parents of a 22 year-old killed in a Belleville murder-suicide has been continued for 60 days.
Adomite It's really simple: According to Section 1 of Article II of the Illinois Constitution, The legislative, executive and judicial branches are separate. No branch shall exercise powers properly belonging to another. Call it Separation of Powers, it's a basic tenet of constitutional government you learn in the 8th grade.
Hopkins The General Assembly played a game of chance with the Court, hoping that the provisions of the bill creating checks on the virtually non regulated medical liability insurance industry - the real villain in this drama - would blind the Justices to patent Constitutional infirmities.
Murnane The four Illinois Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn the state's caps on damages law last week chose trial lawyers over patients, according to the Illinois Civil Justice League (ICJL).
Akin The Illinois Supreme Court lovingly gift wrapped the ultimate Valentine's Day present for personal injury lawyers by striking down the state's historic medical malpractice reform law in a recently released decision.
In his 2003 book, Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges, onetime Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork warned about "the seizure by judges of authority properly belonging to the people and their elected representatives."
Murnane One of the most successful medical malpractice attorneys in the region, Tom Keefe of Swansea, said today's Illinois Supreme Court decision was not unexpected.