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CHICAGO — Pharmaceutical makers Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie have renewed their push to pull the plug on efforts by trial lawyers to force t…
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CHICAGO - Pharmaceutical and medical device maker Baxter Healthcare has reportedly agreed to settle at least 38 lawsuits accusing the company …
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SPRINGFIELD - Businesses in Illinois hit by blizzards of potentially ruinous lawsuits over alleged harm caused by emissions from their factori…
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CHICAGO - A group of big medical device and chemical manufacturing companies are pushing back against attempts by trial lawyers to rope them i…
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CHICAGO - A chemical company with a manufacturing plant in north suburban Gurnee has become the latest to settle hundreds of lawsuits claiming…
The Illinois Supreme Court will weigh in on the question of whether insurance companies can use so-called "pollution exclusions" to sidestep p…
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…
Editor's note: This article has been revised from an earlier version to include responses from the law firms of Salvi Schostok & Pritchard…
CHICAGO - A chemical company has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss a number of personal injury lawsuits against it, asserting, as has anoth…