Stack Premcor Refining and Equilon Enterprises will pay the village of Hartford $1,050,000 for release of past and future claims over pollution from refinery operations, but Sinclair Oil and BP Pipelines protest that the release puts them in jeopardy.
Stack Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon Enterprises will pay the village of Hartford $550,000 and Premcor Refining will pay $500,000 under an agreement that village trustees and the companies reached in February.
An Illinois couple has filed a benzene suit against 26 defendant corporations, claiming the non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma with which the man was diagnosed was wrongfully caused.
Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack approved a $19.5 million settlement between BP Products North America and Hartford residents on Jan. 26.
Stack Attorneys who settled class action claims against British Petroleum Products North America over pollution in Hartford improperly freed BP from liability to Sinclair Oil, according to Sinclair attorney Joseph Nassif.
Stack BP Products North America has agreed to pay $19.5 million for release from a Madison County class action over pollution from refinery operations in Hartford.
Stack Apex Oil stopped refining petroleum in Hartford in 1988 and Sinclair Oil left the village in 1990, but Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack has ruled that the statute of limitations does not relieve them of responsibility for pollution under the village.
Stack Attorney Jeannine Kelly claims she earned half of a $2,666,666 fee that Mark Goldenberg's firm negotiated in a class action over refinery pollution in Hartford.
A Madison County attorney has filed suit against a Madison County law firm, alleging it failed to pay her more than $1 million for work she helped them perform on a lawsuit.
Hartford village trustees have asked Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron to transfer their suit against 27 oil and pipeline companies to Circuit Judge Daniel Stack.
Stack As attorneys prepare to divide more than $5 million in fees from settlement of claims against Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon and Clark Oil successor Premcor Refining over refinery pollution in Hartford, Jeannine Kelly of Alton protests that they left her out.
Stack Hartford village trustees, who for years watched outside lawyers represent the entire village in lawsuits over pollution from refinery operations, have suddenly decided that they too can represent the entire village.
The estate of Derek Rea filed suit against 15 corporations in Madison County Circuit Court, claiming Rea's benzene exposure caused him to develop cute myelogenous leukemia, which led to his death last month.
Stack In a simple solution to the puzzle of distributing blame among many oil companies for pollution in the village of Hartford, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency proposes to force two of them to clean up messes they didn't make.
Stack Shell Oil subsidiary Equilon wants Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack to keep Sinclair Oil from peeking into the settlement Equilon and Clark Oil successor Premcor Refining reached with class action attorneys over pollution in the village of Hartford.
Stack Oil companies that defended themselves as a team for five years against claims that they polluted the village of Hartford have split apart, with Premcor Refining Group and Shell Oil joining the plaintiff team and Sinclair Oil and BP Products screaming foul.