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The Peoria office is working hard on all of their cases which consist of numerous state and federal court claims in Illinois and various other states across the western half of the country. These include railroad and insurance defense files that present a variety of...
The Eastern District of Missouri Court of Appeals reversed the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County’s exclusion of impeachment evidence of one of defendants' experts. The plaintiffs, Jimmie Sue and John Marchbank, filed suit against Amit Chakrabarty and Urologic...
In a recent case before the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Schultz v. Great Plains Trucking, Inc., No. ED111241, 2024 Mo. App. LEXIS 195 (App. E.D. Mar. 26, 2024), the court was divided over the admissibility of evidence regarding a mother's alleged...
Insurers regularly encounter claims with multiple claimants with serious injuries. Oftentimes, this results in the insurer receiving multiple policy limit demands that exceed the available policy limits. The most common example of this situation is car accidents with...
On March 21, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice, joined by fifteen states and the District of Columbia, filed suit against Apple Inc. in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey. In their six-count Complaint, the plaintiffs allege that Apple violated antitrust laws...
A recent case presented an interesting analysis of the Illinois Open Meetings Act (“OMA”) and Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”). In International Ass’n of Fire Fighters Local 4646 v. Village of Oak Brook., 2024 IL App (3rd) 220466 in December 2020, the Village of...
The Missouri Supreme Court has clarified the evidence necessary to establish the “known third person” exception to the general rule in Missouri that businesses have no duty to protect invitees from the criminal acts of third person because such activities are rarely...
Amusement centers and parks are increasingly requiring visitors to sign liability waivers and releases before entering and using their facilities. Often, a patron must sign a new release each time they visit. But what happens if a patron gets injured during one visit...
If passed, a proposed bill before the Kansas Senate will make it easier for litigants to admit statements made to translators into evidence. The current version of the bill adds an exception to the rule against hearsay, which reads: (ff) Language conduit rule. A...
A recently submitted Colorado Ballot Proposal, Initiative 2023-24 #150: Damages Involving Catastrophic Injury or Wrongful Death, requests an amendment to C.R.S. § 13-21-102.7 to remove the noneconomic damages cap for any claim involving catastrophic injury, including...