Flooding at their Pontoon Beach home prompted Donald and Carrie Roberts to file a seven-count, $350,000 lawsuit against the former owners, the real estate agent who sold the home and the real estate company, Jan. 14 in Madison County Circuit Court.
An Alton car wash which invested $123,000 in machinery is suing an equipment supplier for $70,000 because the parts didn't work properly after installation.
A Kentucky car dealership and its employee were sued in Madison County Circuit Court Jan. 13 seeking damages in excess of $100,000, stemming from a car accident in Staunton on April 3, 2004.
Madison County Transit (MCT) and one of its drivers, Tyrone Lucas, were struck by a lawsuit from passenger Carrie Latham Jan. 13 in Madison County Circuit Court.
929 Carla Drive in Troy Natalie Earnhart's refusal to make payments on the home her father bought for her has prompted Richard Peterson of Benson, Ill. to sue his daughter for $145,644.32.
Michael Hudac, a Pittsburgh, Pa. laborer employed at Pittsburgh Purifying Metals (PPM) in 1973, filed an asbestos lawsuit in Madison County Circuit Court Jan. 11 seeking more than $100,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.
Gary Peel of the Lakin Law Firm in Wood River filed the first class action of 05 A son seeking justice for his deceased mother was the first to file a class action lawsuit in Madison County Circuit Court in 2005.
A school lunch monitor who got caught in the middle horseplay is suing the student and his parents for more than $50,000 for neck and back injuries she sustained.
If Madison and St. Clair plaintiff’s attorneys are puzzled or miffed by all the attention they’re getting, they should take another look at their bank account balances. Then make a mental note.
Circuit Judge Dan Stack will join fellow Circuit Judges, Byron, Kardis, Moran, and Matoesian in civil cases Madison County Circuit Court Chief Judge Edward Ferguson has relieved Circuit Judge Daniel Stack from the 3rd Circuit's criminal and drug docket so he can concentrate on civil cases.
NovaStar Home Mortgage Inc. and NovaStar Financial Inc., national lenders which face class action suits across the country for allegedly violating the Securities Exchange Act, are also targets in Madison County Circuit Court.
Seeking to recover at least $600,000 from doctors who failed to diagnose his wife's mortal cancer, Ronald Pruitt filed the first lawsuit of the new year (excluding asbestos) in Madison County Circuit Court.
Madison County Circuit Court's first asbestos case of 2005 was filed by Illinois resident Daisy Gardner, who claims she was diagnosed with mesothelioma on Aug. 10, 2004, after being exposed to asbestos products dating back to 1949.
The Lakin Law Firm in Wood River On the last day to file in 2004, clerks in Madison County Circuit Court were kept busy by The Lakin Law Firm of Wood River.
One of the last lawsuits filed in Madison County Circuit Court in 2004 came at the hands of chiropractor Daniel Jones D.C., owner of Bunker Hill Chiropractic Clinic. He filed a class action suit against Sentry Insurance Company Dec. 30, alleging it improperly reduces payouts under medical payment (medpay) coverage.
A day after Bethalto chiropractor Thomas L. Kaltenbronn, D.C. filed two class action lawsuits against insurance companies--claiming they deceptively reduced payments to him and other licensed healthcare providers--he filed a third against Pekin Insurance Company on Dec. 29 in Madison County Circuit Court.
When a recent report suggested that the drug Celebrex could cause heart problems, two things were certain: Pfizer's stock would fall and lawsuits would rise.
Madison County plaintiff's attorney Thomas Maag has moved to drop a civil lawsuit he filed last month against a former campaign staffer for Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier.
Represented by trial attorney giants Korein Tillery of Belleville and SimmonsCooper of East Alton, a Nashville, Ill. couple filed a 12-count lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds (RJR) and Huck's Convenience Store in Madison County Circuit Court Dec. 28.
Fungus, chicken bones, heating pads and Vioxx. Whether a plaintiff has been damaged by products, accidents or circumstances, the Madison County Record reports case details--often dramatic narrative of disfiguring injuries, lost wages and mental anguish--to a worldwide audience. (www.madisonrecord.com)