Renters who allege their home exploded from leaking gas and their former attorney seek default judgment against a man they claim made maliciously false statements regarding the circumstances of the explosion.
MOUNT VERNON — The Fifth District Appellate Court has reversed a decision offsetting payments the Flora Chamber of Commerce would have to pay a man who claimed he was injured at a parade.
BELLEVILLE — An insured motorist is suing State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company for allegedly failing to provide underinsured motorist coverage.
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed appellate and trial court rulings in favor of a plaintiff who had filed a complaint after an insurance company denied coverage following a car crash.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyers preparing for a $9 billion racketeering trial against State Farm, under orders to admit or deny statements, pinned almost all their admissions on one lawyer and a class of plaintiffs who lost a case in 2005.
Renters who were injured when their home exploded from leaking gas and their former attorney seek more than $20 million each from a man who allegedly made maliciously false statements regarding the circumstances of the explosion.
Madison County Circuit Judge Andreas Matoesian granted State Farm’s motion to request punitive damages against a propane company after leaking gas caused an explosion at a rental property, which allegedly “knocked a home from its foundation and nearly killed an entire family.”
EAST ST. LOUIS – Lawyers who claim State Farm corruptly secured the election of current Supreme Court Chief Justice Lloyd Karmeier must improve their answers to questions State Farm posed for trial, U.S. Magistrate Stephen Williams has ruled.
EDWARDSVILLE – An insurance company is seeking more than $200,000 in damages from a propane supplier after an alleged propane leak caused an explosion at a Collinsville property.
MOUNT VERNON – The Fifth District Appellate Court has upheld a verdict denying a Belleville property owner's fraud claims against State Farm Insurance Co. regarding a fire-damaged property.
State Farm and former Madison County lawyer Tom Lakin settled a dispute over whether the insurer owed a duty to defend the lawyer and his son Kristopher Lakin in a sexual abuse case involving minors.
EAST ST. LOUIS – State Farm, defending a claim that it corrupted the Illinois Supreme Court by securing the election of Justice Lloyd Karmeier in 2004, has filed two bits of a deposition swearing he knew nothing of support from State Farm.
