News from August 2013
Stephen Tillery’s new atrazine strategy
An article in the June 17th Environmental Health News reported that St. Louis attorney Stephen Tillery had “shifted his strategy” in his long-running, court-condoned attack on Syngenta Corp.
City of Alton demands jury trial after Mudge denies motion to dismiss haunted house suit
Madison County Circuit Judge William Mudge on Aug. 9 denied the City of Alton’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit over a girl’s injuries sustained in a haunted house tour.
That's Alright Mama
Hopkins
J&J, Boston Scientific sued in St. Clair County over mesh product
DriscollA woman has filed suit against the manufacturer of a mesh product that she claims caused damage to her vaginal lining, resulting in significant pain.Maria Truex claims doctors inserted an Obtruator TVT mesh Gynecare and Xenoform into her during a surgical procedure in Aug. 10, 2009. The products were manufactured by defendants Johnson and Johnson and Boston Scientific, according to the complaint
Bank of Edwardsville seeks more than $400K on loan repayment
An Edwardsville bank claims two people have failed to repay it more than $400,000 it lent to them.
Why I became a whistleblower
Prenzler
No answer yet in Madison County monkey bite suit
A monkey’s owner who had been given 30 days to file an answer to a suit alleging an attack on a minor boy that occurred in a Godfrey park has not responded to a Madison County personal injury suit.
Shopper claims ruts in Home-Brite's plant display area led to injuries
A shopper claims she suffered severe and permanent injuries after falling in the gardening section of a Home-Brite Company d/b/a Ace Hardware store.