In a case lawyers usually refer to as a slip and fall matter, Virginia Bruns sued the City of Centralia when she fell on a raised section of a public sidewalk while going to an eye clinic. The city’s records showed that the roots of a nearby tree caused the…
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago naming several United States and Canadian companies as defendants. The allegations in the complaint allege that these companies acted on a medical discount scam that targeted seniors. According…
James Werner, who was also the defendant in this case, was the insurer producer for Office Furnishings Ltd. and Brathan Property LLC. Brathan Property owned a commercial building at 725 S. 25th Avenue in Bellwood, Ill., where Office Furnishings maintained a warehouse for its office furniture business. Werner obtained insurance…
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…
Craig Yale was a limited liability member of Wolcott LLC, a real estate development operation. The two plaintiffs, Dr.Biplob Dass and Brett Garry, brought a lawsuit against Wolcott LLC, claiming they were duped when purchasing a garden condominium unit from Wolcott. In the complaint it was alleged that the unit…
In a case decided in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Perry v. A.W. Chesterton Inc., it was determined that brakes located onto a rail car are a “part or appurtenance” to a locomotive and therefore the plaintiff’s state law asbestos claims were pre-empted by the federal Locomotive Inspection Act (LIA). …
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…
In August 2008, 30-year-old Kevin Harrison was working for Norfolk Southern Railway when he was exposed to acid fumes from a leaking barrel at Norfolk’s rail yard in Hammond, Ind. The acid had been shipped from Michigan in an inter-modal container owned by the defendant K Line America, which is…
There are many toxic chemicals found in everyday products used by families and children alike. The chemicals that are being studied were based on one of the following factors:· Concern for children’s health (particularly reproductive or developmental effects); · Neurotoxic effects; · Persistent toxic qualities; · Probable or known…