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…