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Chicago Police Brutality: Traffic Management Authority Supervisor Awarded Over $1.5 Million

Posted on October 26, 2009
A jury has awarded a Chicago Traffic Management Authority supervisor over $1.5 million for police brutality. Jacqueline Fegan had accused four Chicago cops of causing her permanent injury on May 18, 2006 when she was handcuffed and thrown into a police motor vehicle because she wouldn?t toss out a parking ticket...

Chicago?s Scotland Yard Gospel Choir Members Sustain Injuries During Van Rollover Accident

Posted on September 25, 2009
A possible tire failure may have caused the van rollover accident that injured all six members of the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir. Initial reports indicate that the 1999 Chevrolet van was driving in the left lane on I-65 in Indiana when tire failure caused the van to go off the road and roll over a number of times...

Chicago Slip and Fall Lawsuit Against Sears Claims Woman Slid on Vomit

Posted on September 24, 2009
In Cook County Circuit Court, Glinda Bridgeman submitted her Chicago slip and fall lawsuit against Sears. Bridgeman says she was injured on July 11 when she slipped and fell on paper towels and vomit that were on the floor of the television department of a Chicago Sears store...

Illinois nurse files Chicago police brutality lawsuit alleging civil rights violations

Posted on September 21, 2009
Lisa Hofstra, who is a charge nurse at the emergency room in Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, is suing the city of Chicago and one of its police officers for police brutality. Hofstra says she was working in the emergency room at around 4am when the police officer asked her to perform blood work on a person who was apprehended for drunk driving...

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Chicago Medical Malpractice?: Woman Dies from Injuries Sustained During Surgical Fire

Posted on September 20, 2009
The family of Janice McCall is reeling following news that the 65-year-old woman died from thermal burn injuries. What is even more upsetting is that McCall sustained her burns during a surgical fire that broke out while she was undergoing surgery. The medical examiner?s office is calling her death an accident...

$5 Million Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict Awarded to Woman for Unnecessary Hysterectomy

Posted on September 17, 2009
A jury has awarded Sharon Virginelli $5 million for Chicago medical malpractice because of an unnecessary hysterectomy she underwent 10 years ago. Virginelli had planned on having a large family, but that dream was lost in 1999 when she went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to give birth to her daughter...

Palatine Woman Files Lake County, Illinois Boating Accident Lawsuit for Her Personal Injuries

Posted on September 15, 2009
A Palatine, Illinois woman who sustained serious injuries when the boat she was a passenger in capsized on August 15 is suing two boat operators for her Illinois personal injuries. Brenda Schmid was thrown into the water and pinned underwater and trapped in the mud after two boats collided with one another...

Two Separate Illinois Premises Liability Lawsuits Involving Fall Accidents Get Ready to Go to Trial

Posted on September 11, 2009
Two separate Illinois personal injury lawsuits involving fall accidents caused by hazards on premises are scheduled to go to trial next week. In one case, Mattie Walker-Bennett had sued the City of Alton, its public works department, American Waterworks Service Company, Illinois Water Company, the owner of Central Rivers Construction, and several individuals for injuries she sustained during a 2006 slip and fall accident on a broken sidewalk...

Chicago Motorcycle Accident Settlement Could Give $3.4 Million to Rider Who Struck Sinkhole

Posted on September 09, 2009
A City Council committee has advanced a $3.4 million Chicago motorcycle accident settlement for rider Juan Munoz. The 33-year-old motorcyclist was on his motorcycle on September 4, 2000 when he hit a sinkhole. The sinkhole, according to one neighbor, had expanded to 36-inches in diameter, and residents in the area had complained about the road defect...

Plaintiffs of Chicago Plane Accident Awarded $15 Million Settlement for Restaurateur?s Illinois Wrongful Death

Posted on September 07, 2009
In Cook County, Illinois, a judge has awarded the family of Michael Waugh $15 million for his airplane accident death. Waugh, a 37-year-old Algonquin resident, was one of four people killed when the Cessna 421B they were riding in crashed in a storage yard in January 2006...

Chicago Slip and Fall: Woman Sues Brookfield Zoo Because Splashing Dolphins Wet the Floor

Posted on September 02, 2009
In Cook County Circuit Court, Allecyn Edwards is suing the Chicago Zoological Society and the Brookfield Zoo for her slip and fall injuries. Edwards contends that she was injured because the defendants had trained the dolphins to splash water at the spectators in the stands, which wet the surrounding floors and made them slippery...

Michael Jackson?s Wrongful Death?: Coroner Says King of Pop?s Fatal Cardiac Arrest was Homicide

Posted on August 31, 2009
During a televised interview with NBC that aired on the TODAY show this morning, Joe Jackson, the 80-year-old father of singer Michael Jackson, announced that not just someone but ?all of ?em? who may have contributed to his son?s untimely death at age 50 should pay...

Chicago Injury Lawsuit Accuses Private School of Ignoring Alleged Sexual Abuse Incidents Involving Math Teacher

Posted on August 27, 2009
A former Chicago Hope Academy student is suing the school for personal injury. The boy, an unnamed minor and an athlete, started attending the school, located on the West Side, in 2005. Per his Chicago child sex abuse lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, the boy is accusing Kathryn Vail-Wesley, his former math teacher, of showering him with affection and attention in private and in public beginning in 2008...

Chicago Cubs Sued for Illinois Wrongful Death Over Fatal 2007 Wall Collapse Accident

Posted on August 26, 2009
The family of 21-year-old Alex Drews is suing the Chicago Cubs for wrongful death and negligence. Drews died from injuries he sustained on August 31, 2007 when a cinder-block and steel wall fell on him. Drews had run into the lee of an outbuilding on Cubs property because a storm had broken while he was walking and that is where the wall crushed him...

Parents of Paralyzed Teenager Sue Chicago Prep School for Injuries to Minor

Posted on August 20, 2009
The family of Christopher Connolly is suing St. Ignatius College Prep student for his personal injury. In 2007, Connolly, then 15, sustained catastrophic injuries when he hit is head on the bottom of the school during water polo practice. According to the Chicago injury lawsuit, an assistant coach told the other kids to throw snowballs at Connolly and called him ?Flounder,? which is considered a derogatory nickname...

Woman Files Cook County Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claiming Doctor Sterilized Her

Posted on August 17, 2009
A Naperville woman is accusing an obstetrician-gynecologist at Rush-Copley Medical Center of sterilizing her without her consent. Nada Dollah is suing the Aurora hospital, Women?s Health Physicians S.C. of Aurora, and Dr. Nizar F. Olabi for Illinois medical malpractice...

Family Members File Cook County Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Chicago-Based McDonnell Douglas and 10 Other Companies in 2008 Spainair Crash

Posted on August 15, 2009
The family members of the 18 people who died in a 2008 Spainair plane crash in Madrid have filed a Cook County, Illinois wrongful death lawsuit against 11 companies. The defendants are McDonnell Douglas Co (based in Chicago), SAS Group, Boeing, Leach International, Korean Air, Rohr, Hawker Siddley, Esterline Technologies, Alenia Aeronautica, and Pratt & Whitney...

Woman to Receive $800,000 Chicago Injury Settlement for Slip and Fall at O?Hare Airport

Posted on August 14, 2009
The city of Chicago and Diana Sarker have agreed to settle her Illinois slip and fall lawsuit for $800,000. The 59-year-old woman fractured her kneecap and tore cartilage on January 21, 2005 when she slipped and fell while walking through Terminal 3 at O?Hare Airport...

Chicago Injury Prompts Diabetic to File Police Brutality Lawsuit

Posted on August 12, 2009
Chicago resident Rolan D. Johnson says he sustained personal injuries and other damages when he was unjustly arrested by a Glenwood police officer in 2007. Jones says the incident happened when he was driving home from Hodgkins where he works at a UPS facility...

Illinois Trip and Fall Lawsuit Sues Couple for Personal Injuries Caused by Uneven Steps

Posted on August 07, 2009
A sewer repairman is suing a couple for Illinois premises liability. Taylor Schultz, a sewer repairman, says the trip and fall accident happened on August 11, 2007. Schultz says he was hired by Scott Whitehead to fix a sewer clog in Whitehead?s home...

Chicago Police Brutality: Should Law Enforcement Officers Be Allowed to Fire Guns At Felony Suspects Driving Off in Motor Vehicles

Posted on August 06, 2009
City Hall has not approved a new police that would allow Chicago police officers to shoot weapons at felony suspects during police pursuits. The new rule allowing the use of deadly force was supposed to go into effect on August 3, but now Mayor Daley says that the rule has yet to be implemented and a review process of policy is currently taking place...

Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Accuses Berwyn Hospital of Conducting Wrong Site Surgery

Posted on August 04, 2009
A man who says he suffered a permanent injury because doctors at a Berwyn hospital operated on the wrong knee has filed a Chicago orthopedic surgery lawsuit. The plaintiff is Krzysztof Kordes. His Illinois medical malpractice complaint, filed in Cook County Circuit Court against Dr...

Chicago White Sox and City of Champions Bar Sued for Wrongful Death

Posted on July 31, 2009
The mother of a University of Illinois college student who died in a Joliet hit-and-run accident in 2008 is suing the Chicago White Sox and City of Champions bar for wrongful death. Maria Lech?s Cook County wrongful death lawsuit is also suing At Your Service, ChiSox Corp, Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, SDI Security, Illinois Sportservice, and Marsha Ortega and Leopoldo Robles, Jr...

Man Sues Estate of Daughter?s Ex-Boyfriend for Illinois Wrongful Death

Posted on July 29, 2009
The father of Amber Cremeens, 34, is suing the estate of her ex-boyfriend for her wrongful death. Tyler James Martin, a former Wonder Lake resident, is now deceased. The 36-year-old shot himself to death last February in Chicago after a standoff with police who were seeking him in connection with Creemens?s alleged murder...

Son of Retired Cook County Judge Sues Him for Chicago Personal Injury

Posted on July 26, 2009
The adopted son of retired Cook County Judge Lambros Kutrubis is suing him for personal injury. John Kutrubis, 19, claims his father physically, sexually and psychologically abused him. He is seeking monetary damages of over $50,0000 against the former judge, 66, who denies the allegations...

McDonald?s Sued for Illinois Personal Injury After Teenager Gets Hepatitis A

Posted on July 23, 2009
In Illinois, a Sherrard couple is suing McDonald?s for their son?s personal injury. Lisa and Dennis Mrasak say that their 16-year-old son, Dillon, had to be hospitalized for a few days and tested positive for hepatitis A after eating at the McDonald?s in Milan, Illinois...

Chicago Medical Malpractice: Obstetrician Accused of Yelling at Woman in Labor is Put on Probation

Posted on July 22, 2009
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has placed obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Scott Pierce on probation for one year and fined him $500. Pierce is accused of mistreating a pregnant woman while she was in labor with her fifth child...

Chicago Premises Liability?: City Slows Down Porch Inspection Efforts

Posted on July 20, 2009
According to the Chicago Tribune, the city of Chicago has slowed down its efforts to make sure that the thousands of porches in the city are safe for use. While the city did initiate an inspections crackdown six years ago when 13 people died in a Lincoln Park porch collapse accident?500 bad porches were identified?the special inspection task force was disbanded in 2006 after the majority of repairs were fixed...

Syndicated Columnist Sues Two Chicago Dentists for Dental Malpractice

Posted on July 16, 2009
In Illinois, nationally syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer filed her Chicago dental malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Daniel I. Chin, Jr. and Dr. Jeffrey Taugner. In her Cook County Circuit Court complaint, Geyer claims that the two Chicago dentists failed to diagnose that she had cancer of the tongue and mouth Geyer claims that in 2006, she went to Dr...

LaSalle County Train-Car Collision Kills Two Grandparents and Their Grandchild

Posted on July 15, 2009
A tragic Illinois train-car accident has claimed the lives of two grandparents and their grandchild. The people that died are Benjamin Rasmusen, 82, Marilyn Rasmusen, 81, and Elizabeth Rasmusen, 9. The deadly LaSalle County train accident happened on Monday afternoon...

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