For $16 million, Shell Oil and Premcor Refining Group have arranged to settle all claims that their refinery operations polluted the village of Hartford.
Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack blew his stack when he heard that big oil companies BP, Sinclair and Shell kicked little Apex Oil out of mediation over the cost of groundwater contamination in Hartford.
Two oil companies that freed themselves from a proposed class action over pollution in the village of Hartford insist that a new version of the suit offers no grounds to bring them back into the case.
Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack must decide whether the former bankruptcy of Apex Oil relieves it of liability for pollution at a refinery in Hartford.
Attorneys who have battled for months over the right to represent residents of Hartford in class actions over refinery vapors keep trying to settle their differences.
Judge Stack Forty-six current and former Hartford residents have broken away from a class action settlement of claims that refinery vapors damaged their properties.
Hartford residents trying to make sense of a struggle over the right to represent them in court must now figure out whether they need protection from their attorneys.
SPRINGFIELD-The Illinois Supreme Court has denied a lawyer's request to overturn Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack's decision in a contentious battle of dueling lawsuits.
Circuit Judge Dan Stack Just when attorneys for Shell Oil and Premcor Refining Group thought they had settled claims over foul vapors in the village of Hartford, attorneys for two other oil companies exposed them to new claims.
SPRINGFIELD-A heated Madison County battle, the case of dueling lawsuits over petroleum vapors in the village of Hartford, has turned into a hot potato for the Illinois Supreme Court.
Premcor Refining Group and Shell Oil affiliate Equilon Enterprises have agreed to pay $8 million to Hartford residents living above an underground petroleum lake that formed from the operation of the community's big oil refinery.
Missouri attorneys who planned to represent Hartford residents in a Madison County class action over petroleum vapors want to know more about a new settlement that would knock out their case.
As two teams of attorneys struggle for the right to represent the citizens of Hartford living above an underground lake of gasoline, three related lawsuits are creating an energy crisis for three Madison County judges.
Hartford residents who proposed a class action suit over petroleum vapors in their homes did not get a class action, but Hartford residents who filed a regular suit over the vapors have agreed to settle it as a class action.
SimmonsCooper law firm settled benzene exposure claims of a New York state resident against about 70 companies in Madison County Circuit Court, a day before a scheduled hearing on a challenge to the court's jurisdiction.