CHICAGO — A chemical company with a manufacturing plant in north suburban Gurnee has agreed to pay to settle hundreds more lawsuits claiming e…
CHICAGO — Pharmaceutical makers Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie have renewed their push to pull the plug on efforts by trial lawyers to force t…
CHICAGO - Pharmaceutical and medical device maker Baxter Healthcare has reportedly agreed to settle at least 38 lawsuits accusing the company …
SPRINGFIELD - Businesses in Illinois hit by blizzards of potentially ruinous lawsuits over alleged harm caused by emissions from their factori…
CHICAGO - A group of big medical device and chemical manufacturing companies are pushing back against attempts by trial lawyers to rope them i…
RICHMOND, Virginia – A federal appeals court has reversed and remanded a case, holding that the plaintiffs in a class action seeking medical m…
CHICAGO - A Cook County judge has allowed medical device sterilization company Steris to end hundreds of lawsuits over claims emissions from a…
The Illinois Supreme Court will weigh in on the question of whether insurance companies can use so-called "pollution exclusions" to sidestep p…
A medical device sterilization company appears to have reached a $48 million settlement to  potentially resolve hundreds of lawsuits over clai…
As much as $48 million more could be added to the $408 million plaintiffs are already expected to receive from settlements to end lawsuits aga…
