Lakin Law Firm attorneys have replaced a dead plaintiff in a six-year-old class action and a plaintiff who dropped out of a seven-year-old class action, but if defendants have their facts straight the new plaintiffs won't last long.
Terry Lowe of Bethalto filed suit against State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance in Madison County Circuit Court Aug. 31, alleging the insurance company refused to pay a fire claim.
Five years after the Lakin Law Firm sued insurer AIG over the value of a wrecked truck, the firm still does not understand how AIG figured the value, according to AIG's latest brief.
William Clay Ford, Jr. Robert Schmieder of the Lakin Law Firm believed he could extract sworn testimony from Ford Motor Company boss William Clay Ford Jr., but Schmieder's idea turned out more as a delusion than a deposition.
Exactly one year ago, now retired Illinois Supreme Court Justice Mary Ann McMorrow authored the majority opinion in Avery, the court decision over generic parts in car repairs.
A year ago the Illinois Supreme Court walloped class action litigation by overturning a $1.2 billion Williamson County verdict, and ever since, defendants have been savoring the victory.
Allstate Insurance has asked Madison County Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron for an order decertifying a Lakin Law Firm class action just like an order Byron signed for insurer GEICO.
Seven days after class action attorneys proposed a three ring circus trial against cable company Level 3 Communications, they abandoned the plan and settled the suit.
Madison County Circuit Judge Don Weber denied Auto Owners Casualty and Surety Company's motion to dismiss a class action case filed by chiropractor Frank Bemis.
Circuit Judge Nicholas Byron As class action plaintiffs, Myron Billups and Patricia Singleton lasted five years at the Madison County courthouse. As regular citizens they did not last a month.