Freeburg Community High School District is being sued after a former student allegedly injured his hand with a table saw. According to the lawsuit, plaintiff Cole Huelsmann claims he was acting as an assistant in an industrial arts class in November 2021. He was cutting wood when his “right hand met the blade of the saw, causing Cole severe injuries.”…
A man is suing a Wood River tool store after he allegedly suffered injuries from a “defective” router. Plaintiff William P. Sloan filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against Waltco Tools Inc. and DeWalt Industrial Tool Company. According to the complaint, Sloan purchased a DeWalt router from Waltco Tools in Wood River. He claims the router had…
A woman is suing the City of Alton after she allegedly tripped on an uneven sidewalk while leaving a downtown bridal shop. According to the lawsuit, plaintiff Danielle Conn claims she was leaving Frew’s Bridal on Piasa Street in Alton when she allegedly fell in a “depressed area” of the sidewalk and fractured her ankle. Conn claims the city knew…
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…
