A Fairview Heights man whose 2003 Mercedes-Benz SL500 caught fire while parked in his garage, claims the vehicle was unreasonably dangerous and defective in a suit filed Jan. 9 in St. Clair County Circuit Court.
Judge Stack Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack reminded a group of asbestos lawyers that he's not opposed to dismissing cases with little or no tie to the county.
An East St. Louis woman is seeking in excess of $300,000 for injuries and damages she suffered after hitting a deer two times while traveling southbound on Interstate 255/270 two years ago.
Retired Judge Kardis Lakin Law Firm attorneys want Madison County Associate Judge Richard Tognarelli to run a national class action trial against Ford Motor Company the way retired Circuit Judge Philip Kardis would have run it.
A St. Clair County plaintiff is seeking in excess of $100,000 from State Farm Insurance alleging a theft claim involving his 2003 Dodge Stratus has gone unpaid.
When Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack took over the court's massive asbestos docket in September 2004 he declared that the "astronomical burden" of looming trials demanded he dismiss cases that were not connected directly to Madison County.
Attorneys for State Farm Fire and Casualty filed a motion with the Illinois Supreme Court asking that a Madison County class action suit be consolidated with a similar suit pending in Cook County.
While Charles Chapman represents the Lakin Law Firm in Madison County, Melissa Chapman delivers decisions in favor of the Lakin firm at the Fifth District appellate court.
Herzog Madison County Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian must decide whether to whittle down a colossal Lakin Law Firm class action against Ford Motor Company or shut it down.
State Farm Insurance is seeking more than $125,000 from two Chicago-area building contractors because an excavator improperly used a jackhammer to remove an outer wall of an adjacent property.
Chicago attorneys who silently rode the Lakin Law Firm gravy train for years in Madison County now claim they pulled Tom and Brad Lakin's strings the whole time.