Plaintiff Joyce Kilburg was injured while she was a passenger in a taxicab. She filed a lawsuit claiming negligence and spoliation of evidence against defendants, which included the driver of the Zante Cab Co. taxi, Taxi Medallion Management, Inc. (Taxi Medallion), Taxi Affiliation Services, LLC (Taxi Affiliation) and Wolley Cab Association…
A $5 million jury verdict was handed down in the first of the federal multidistrict litigation cases involving patients claiming injury from the body scan contrast agent gadolinium. The Ohio jury found GE Healthcare chose not to provide the necessary health risk warnings with patients with impaired kidney function when gadolinium…
Benjamin Faught rear-ended Luis Gavino’s car on southbound Interstate 94 in Deerfield, Ill., in the early morning hours of Oct. 3, 2009. The impact caused the plaintiff’s car to spin several times and crash into a cement median strip. Gavino, 57, sustained a posterior tibialis tendon tear, located on the…
Kristen Beauford was on her bicycle in the northbound bike lane at 100 S. Halsted in Chicago. The defendant, Nicolas Kapsoulos, was driving his car away from a Starbucks at that Chicago Greektown location. As Kapsoulos attempted to make a left turn onto northbound Halsted, he struck Kristen, who was…