News from January 2006
Ratchet case --minus complaint-- goes to trial in April
Circuit Judge Daniel Stack Cassens & Sons of Edwardsville must prepare for a trial with no complaint on file and no decision on whether jurors can award punitive damages.
Asbestos Motion Docket: Week of Jan. 23.
Monday, Jan. 23
Antifungal foot cream blamed for renal failure
Tyonia Kamadulski of Granite City filed a product liability and negligence complaint against Novartis Pharmaceuticals and Walgreens for injuries she sustained after using a prescription anti-fungal medication.
Tuesday, Jan. 24
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Post medical liability reform, Blagojevich ignores lawsuit abuse in annual address
Ed Murnane Legal reform advocates blasted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's State of the State address for not confronting the economics of lawsuit abuse.
Rosewood Care Center named in resident's injury suit
An Alton nursing home is being sued because a resident sustained vertebral fractures after falling while left unassisted.
Mother sues Alton Memorial over son's head injury care
Alton Memorial Hospital Helen Gray filed a medical malpractice suit against Alton Memorial Hospital on behalf of her son, Robert Ewing, alleging the hospital failed to properly diagnose his head injury
Med mal trial ends abruptly, defendants settle case
Dana Lynn Askew's wrongful death trial against Anderson Hospital, Raghu Kanumuri, M.D., Jacob Marshall, M.D. and Michael Rallo, M.D., abruptly ended as defendants settled, apparently deciding not to roll the dice.
Stack to hear third party motion in fire extinguisher case
An Olin employee who was injured in a fire on Jan. 10, 2005, filed a suit against the seller, provider, servicer and installer of a fire extinguishing system in Madison County Circuit Court Oct. 31, 2005.
Sewer back-up in Granite City prompts suit
Having grown tired of raw sewage running onto their property after heavy rains, a Granite City couple filed suit in Madison County Circuit Court seeking at least $150,000 in damages.
Death blamed on narrow road in Madison County
A man who claims that County Line Road in Troy is too narrow filed a wrongful death suit against Jarvis Township in Madison County Circuit Court Jan. 3.
FELA suit filed against Union Pacific
Kenneth Bradshaw filed a Federal Employers' Liability Act suit against Union Pacific Railroad in St. Clair County Circuit Court Jan. 5, seeking damages in excess of $150,000 for injuries he allegedly received while working.
Stack affirmed by appellate court
Circuit Judge Dan Stack One of the few pending cases Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack has on his criminal docket was affirmed unanimously by the Illinois Appellate Court for the Fifth District on Jan. 13.
Park district seeks to dismiss elderly woman's personal injury claim
A 77-year-old woman who was knocked to the ground by a teen-ager in Granite City's Wilson Park last summer will be in Madison County Circuit Court Jan. 25, as defendants move to dismiss her personal injury suit.
Man sues liquor store owners for violent attack
One Stop Liquor Store in East St. Louis A man who claims he was beaten unconscious by bat-wielding attackers who also are the owners of One Stop Liquor Store in East St. Louis, filed suit in St. Clair County Circuit Court Jan. 5.
Flattened boxes injures Dollar General shopper
Dollar General in Southview Plaza in O' Fallon A woman who claims she fell on flattened cardboard boxes at the O'Fallon Dollar General store filed a personal injury suit against the store.
Dormant class action against Alton Memorial in case management
Robert Honke's class action case against Alton Memorial Hospital will finally have a case management conference (CMC) after several failed attempts.
Venue motion to be heard in Rosewood Care Center case
Madison County Circuit Judge Daniel Stack will hear Rosewood Care Center's motion to transfer venue in a case filed by a resident seeking damages in excess of $300,000 for suffering falls, malnutrition, bedsores and a "raging" infection.