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News from January 2006


Ratchet case --minus complaint-- goes to trial in April

By Steve Korris |
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.

By Carrie Gonzalez |
Monday, Jan. 23

Antifungal foot cream blamed for renal failure

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By The Madison County Record |
10 a.m.

Post medical liability reform, Blagojevich ignores lawsuit abuse in annual address

By Ann Knef |
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

By Ann Knef |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

Asbestos Jury Docket: Monday, Jan. 23

By Carrie Gonzalez |
9 a.m.

Med mal trial ends abruptly, defendants settle case

By Steve Gonzalez |
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.

Asbestos Motion Docket: Friday, Jan. 20

By Carrie Gonzalez |
10 a.m.

Stack to hear third party motion in fire extinguisher case

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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

By Steve Gonzalez |
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.