The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed a decision of a Cook County judge barring testimony of the plaintiff, Bettie Payton-White, because she was more than 15 minutes late to a court-mandated arbitration session. In November 2010, a car crash occurred between the motor vehicle driven by Bettie Payton-White and one driven…
On Oct. 20, 2009, Nazmi Nomat was driving eastbound on 167th Street in Hazel Crest, Ill., when a westbound van made a left turn on Western Avenue. The left front end struck the driver’s side of Nomat’s vehicle in the intersection. Nomat, 47, suffered multiple disc herniations that required fusion…
The family of Paul Katuszonek has agreed to a settlement with Goldstar Foods Inc. The case involved Officer Katuszonek, who was killed in a traffic accident in 2012. The Katuszonek family brought a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that the food distributor and long-haul trucking company that employed the driver was…
On June 25, 2007, 37-year-old Latroy Haynes maintained that he was walking eastbound along Cicero Avenue in the crosswalk on Archer Avenue in the city of Chicago. He said he had a green light when he was hit by Leonarda Gonzalez’s speeding southbound car. The impact caused Haynes’s leg to…
Liam O’Neill bought a 2000 GMC Jimmy SUV. On July 3, 2001, his wife, Mary, was driving home in the SUV when the vehicle suddenly stopped. She was in the eastbound lane of a 2-lane street. Mary attempted to restart the SUV several times but it would not start. She…
On Aug. 10, 2009, Dolores Trujillo was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Adam Delgado.The Delgado vehicle was involved in a collision. Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance insured Delgado and his car. The other car involved in the collision was insured by American Access Insurance Co. Trujillo settled her…
On June 3, 2011, Thomas Schrey alleged that he was standing with his bike at the corner of 55th Street and Western Avenue in Clarendon Hills, Ill. Schrey said he was waiting to cross 55th Street when the defendant, Pamela Herman, was driving her car eastbound; Herman’s car left the…
On Jan. 21, 2010, Dean Economos, 18, was driving eastbound on Peterson Avenue near Rogers Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago when he rear-ended the plaintiff’s car, which was stopped. Economos’s car was traveling at 30-35 mph. One of the plaintiffs, 23-year-old Ana Aguilar, sustained soft tissue neck…
On Aug. 13, 2011, Roland P. Wilson was crossing the street after leaving the tavern, Hot City Lounge, 7342 S. Racine Ave., Chicago, Ill., when he was hit by a vehicle that fled the scene. Wilson, 66, suffered a fractured right leg and required surgery. Wilson believed the hit and run…
On Dec. 1, 2008, Sarah Conway, Kathleen O’Toole and Mary Heidkamp were passengers in Joan Steenveld’s car when it was broadsided by the defendant, Lynnard McCullough, who was driving a tractor-trailer. All but Steenveld perished in the crash. Both of the vehicles skidded off a snowy, icy road. Steenveld’s southbound…