Michael Carey and James Fann owned a mixed-use building (residential and dental office) in Chicago, Illinois. The building was substantially damaged in a fire. Carey and Fann made a claim to their insurer, American Family Insurance, but the company denied coverage. Carey and Fann sued American Family. After a bench…
When George Smith was a police officer in Chicago, he contributed to the Police Pension Fund. When Smith resigned from the police force, the Police Pension Fund refunded his $18,000 contribution. A few years later, Smith became a state court judge in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. He…
Gloria Sakellariadis had an automobile accident with Steven Campbell. Three months later Gloria was in another accident, that time with Bruce Walters. Gloria injured her neck, shoulders, and back in both accidents. There was one trial against both Campbell and Walters. While the jury was deliberating, Gloria settled with Campbell…
Michael Gagliardo died in a racing-car accident. Paulette (sister) and Margaret (wife) administered Michael’s estate. They hired Quinlan & Carroll to investigate whether the estate could sue for wrongful death. Paulette later hired Duane Morris, another law firm, to open an estate in court. Duane Morris was on the job…
Leonard Kulisek went to Walgreen pharmacy intending to purchase allopurinol for his gout. The pharmacist gave Leonard a bottle marked “allopurinol,” but it really contained glipizide, a diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar. Thinking he was taking allopurinol, Leonard ingested the glipizide. Leonard suffered severe kidney and brain problems that…
Magdalena Wierzbicki claimed her doctors failed to make a proper diagnosis of her medical problem. So she sued Drs. Gleason and Danczkewycz for medical malpractice. The case was more than two and a half years old when she dismissed it voluntarily. A year later she re-filed it. Then the procedural…
Michael Ready was killed at a work site when a wooden truss that was being rigged for scaffolding fell eight floors and struck him. Michael’s widow, Terry, as administrator of Michael’s estate, sued the contractor, BMW Constructors, and United/Goedecke Services, the scaffolding subcontractor. After BMW and United filed third-party complaints…
Kerr-McGee Chemical and Lefton Iron & Metal were fighting out a 15-year dispute over the cost of cleaning up an environmentally contaminated industrial site. The first time the case was in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the court ruled that Kerr-McGee was entitled to the clean-up costs from Lefton.…
MidAmerica Bank sued Charter One Bank for failing to honor a $50,000 cashier’s check purchased at Charter. The check was payable to Essential Technologies of Illinois. David Hernandez was president of Essential. Mary Christelle, David’s mother, purchased the cashier’s check with money from her account at Charter. Essential deposited the…
Edwin Burnette, the Public Defender of Cook County, sued Todd Stroger, President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Burnette was angry because Stroger selected personnel in the Public Defender’s Office to be laid off and imposed unpaid furlough days on other employees in the office. Burnette claimed he was…