A former employee of Feed Products and Service filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, claiming he was fired for seeking worker’s compensation benefits. Plaintiff Thomas Seehausen filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against Feed Products South, Inc., doing business as Feed Products and Service, Co., citing breach of contract, slander, disparate treatment and retaliatory discharge. According to the…
An employee with the City of Collinsville is suing a resident after he allegedly stepped in a hole in the resident’s yard and injured his back while performing his job duties. Plaintiff Russell Friederich filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against defendant Derrick Cox, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, on March 22, 2021, Friederich was on…
A family is suing FedEx after a contracted driver allegedly caused a collision on Illinois Highway 15. Plaintiffs Laura Wegrzyn and Walter Wegrzyn filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court individually and as parents of Shelby Wegrzyn, a disabled adult, against FedEx Corporation, Kabaj Corporation and Dallas B. Cook, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, Cook was…
A former patient has filed a negligence lawsuit against the Red Bud Regional Hospital, claiming its staff failed to properly diagnose an infection in his spine. Plaintiff Brian Clark filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Dr. Rosanne Sutter, Red Bud Physician Group, LLC, and Red Bud Illinois Hospital Company, LLC doing business as Red Bud…
Injured workers self-reporting anxiety and depression increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with numbers jumping “significantly” between 2019 and 2020 and not returning to pre-pandemic rates in 2022 as the pandemic waned, according to an industry trends report released Tuesday by Medrisk Inc. In 2019, 24.4% of injured workers reported they had anxiety, 19.8% reported depression and 14.8…
Less coordination of care was found to be a factor in injured workers who relied on “extended” physical rehabilitation post-injury, according to a study released Wednesday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. According to WCRI, physical medicine services are commonly used in treating workers with lower back pain and other musculoskeletal injuries, and in recent years, there has been an…
A shopper is suing Walmart after she allegedly slipped and injured herself in one of its O’Fallon stores. Plaintiff Junee Larkin filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Wal-Mart Inc., doing business as Sam’s Club, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, on Aug. 17, 2022, Larkin was a patron in the electronics department at a store…
A woman is suing a Granite City QuikTrip after allegedly slipping and injuring herself in the parking lot. Plaintiff Theresa Branch filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against QuikTrip Corporation and Realty Income Properties Two, LLC, alleging negligence. According to the lawsuit, on April 14, 2018, Branch was a patron at a QuikTrip location in Granite City….
A motorist claims she was injured when an unattended vehicle was stolen from an East St. Louis store, and the driver caused a crash by running a stop sign. filed a negligence lawsuit after she got into a collision with an unknown driver who stole a vehicle from a parking lot. Plaintiff Paris Starks filed a lawsuit in the St….
A drywall worker is suing a Mascoutah property owner, claiming he was injured on the job. In the lawsuit, plaintiff Daniel Guffey claims he was hired by Alice Vance to install drywall on West Main St in Mascoutah. Guffey claims a previous worker had left sand in a poorly lit staircase inside the house. “The improperly removed sand created a…
