Shell Oil Company and eight other oil companies are being sued by Madison County resident Sunan Lamka. The additional defendants are as follows: BP Products North America, Inc.; Phillips 66 Company; Premcor Refining Group, Inc.; HWRT Oil Company, LLC; Apex Oil Company, LLC; Atlantic Richfield Company; Sinclair Oil Corporation; and Equilon Enterprises, LLC. According to the official case filing, Lamka…
Missouri resident Mary Wllie is suing the City of Collinsville doing business as Gateway Convention Center for indirectly causing her serious injury. On July 9, 2022, Willie was in the convention center as an invitee attending a convention. During that time, Willie tripped and fell on convention area flooring that was buckled and uneven. According to the official case filing,…
An insurance policy that covered seven vehicles, each with a $1 million per-accident limit, doesn’t provide $7 million in liability coverage for a fatal crash that involved only one of the covered vehicles, an Illinois appellate court ruled Thursday. A panel of the Illinois 4th District Appellate Court reversed a McLean County Circuit Court decision that found ambiguous language on…
A shopper is suing Walmart after he was allegedly struck by a cart being pushed by an employee while at a Sparta store. Plaintiff James Gantner filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Wal-Mart Inc. and an employee, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, Gantner was a patron at a Walmart store in Sparta on May…
A wrongful death lawsuit alleges that a patient died from an overdose after his physician mistakenly wrote him a prescription for a toxic amount of Prednisone. Plaintiff Theresa L. Smith, acting as special administrator of the estate of John R. Brumley, Jr., filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against the Walgreen Co., Physician Groups,…
A former employee of Nu Way Concrete Forms in Troy claims that he was fired for seeking worker’s compensation benefits after being injured in the job. Plaintiff Shaun Sunfield filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against Nu Way Concrete Forms Troy, LLC, citing retaliatory discharge. According to the lawsuit, Sunfield was formerly employed by Nu Way Concrete…
Crane operator Brent McKinnon has filed a lawsuit against his supervisor, Phillips 66 Crane Supervisor Andy J. Elam, alleging that Elam failed to maintain proper equipment standards. “Aforesaid negligence of defendant Elam directly and proximately caused Plaintiff to suffer severe and permanently disabling and disfiguring injuries,” the lawsuit alleges. On December 6, McKinnon was operating a crane that collapsed at…
A MetroBus passenger has filed a negligence lawsuit after a bus stop shelter allegedly collapsed on top of him. Plaintiff Johnny Fulton filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Bi-State Development Agency, doing business as Metro, and The Bi-State Development Agency of the Missouri-Illinois Metropolitan District, doing business as Metro, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit,…
Anderson Hospital denies liability in a suit alleging medical staff failed to recognize that an emergency patient was suffering from a stroke. St. Louis attorney Katherine Melzer of Sandberg Phoenix answered the complaint on behalf of the hospital, denying liability. In its affirmative defenses, Anderson Hospital argues that the plaintiffs’ alleged injuries were the result “of some conduct other than…
A Granite City bartender denies that her dog attacked a man without provocation as he was leaving the Kopp’s Korner bar after he sued for negligence. Plaintiff Victor M. Brooks filed the lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court against defendants Kopp’s Korner, Inc, doing business as Kopp’s Korner Too, and Marilyn S. Duckett, citing negligence in violation of the…
