Statutes of limitation don’t operate on weekends according to Circuit Judge Heinz Rudolf, who ruled that Abigail Hoerner could proceed with an injury suit she filed on a Monday. Rudolf entered an order on Dec. 28 denying a motion of defendant Quinnton Saunders to dismiss Hoerner’s complaint. Hoerner claims Saunders threw a table tennis paddle that struck her on June…
An O’Fallon woman is suing a Belleville bar, claiming another patron hit her in the head with a bottle. In the lawsuit, Amanda Buss claims she was at TR’s Place on Nov. 21, 2021 when customer Brittany Cheatham “swung a glass bottle like a bat and struck Amanda across her forehead while Amanda was a customer at the business.” Buss…
A Clinton County man is suing the department store chain Target, claiming a bathroom stall collapsed and caused him to fall on the floor. In the lawsuit, Richard Boien accuses Target of negligence. He claims he suffered “serious, painful and permanent injuries” as a result of the fall in November 2020 at the Target in Shiloh. Boien claims he suffered…
A patient claims his x-ray was misinterpreted, which allegedly delayed his lung cancer diagnosis. Plaintiff Michael Colin Murphy filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Jay Wigboldy, M.D., Central Illinois Radiological Associates, LTD., and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, doing business as HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, citing…
A motorist is suing Illinois Central School Bus following a collision in Fairview Heights. Plaintiff Antonio Green filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against defendants Clarence Bell and Illinois Central School Bus, LLC, citing negligence and carelessness. According to the lawsuit, on June 24, 2021, Green was driving westbound on Bunkum Road in Fairview Heights and…
Workplace fatalities jumped 8.9% in 2021 from the prior year, while the fatal work injury rate increased only minimally during that same period, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The country saw a total of 5,190 fatal work injuries last year, up from 4,764 in 2020. The fatal work injury rate stood at 3.6…
Emergency room visits by injured workers showed “substantial variation” across 28 states, even for the same injuries, calling into question whether some state programs push the more expensive care at the onset of an injury regardless of medical necessity, according to a report released Monday by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. In 2021, emergency room utilization for initial medical services…
An Illinois appeals court has partially reversed a Workers’ Compensation Commission ruling overturning an arbitrator’s issuance of temporary total disability benefits to a retail worker injured during a December 2018 workplace accident. In McGaha v. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois on Tuesday partially overturned a May Wayne County Circuit Court decision siding with…
A negligence lawsuit has been filed against Illini Grain Systems, alleging one of its drivers became intoxicated while on the job and caused a collision. Plaintiff Jacob A. Johnson and Mary L. York, guardian and personal representative of plaintiff Hunter W.L. Jaycox, filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against defendants Illini Grain Systems, LLC, doing business…
A tenant at a Belleville apartment is suing her landlord, alleging she was injured by a malfunctioning door. Plaintiff Kristen Bennet filed a lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Dale Leopker and The Estates Property Management, citing negligence and carelessness. According to the lawsuit, Bennet was a resident living in a Belleville apartment that was owned and…
