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A passenger is suing Alternative Transportation Systems, claiming she fell and hit her head because a driver failed to help her off the bus. Plaintiff Juanita McGhee filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Southwestern Illinois College, doing business as Alternative Transportation Systems, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, the defendant is in the business of…

Former SCF Lewis & Clark Fleeting, LLC, employee Tyler Johnson is suing the company for indirectly causing serious injury. According to the official court filing, on July 26, 2020, Johnson was working as a deckhand assigned to the M/V Ernie T. Wellhausen, which SCF owned. Johnson was opening the port bow end cover top of a barge in the tow…

A patient has filed a lawsuit against his doctor and HSHS Medical Group, claiming he suffered an infection following surgery that led to amputation. Plaintiff Bryce Kidman filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kevin McCarthy, M.D. and HSHS Medical Group, Inc., citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, Kidman was the defendants' patient and admitted himself…

A woman is suing the City of Fairview Heights, claiming that she was injured at the Recreation Complex due to a malfunctioning automatic door. Plaintiff Joan Moss filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against The City of Fairview Heights, citing negligence. According to the lawsuit, on June 21, 2022, Moss was exercising at the Rec Complex…

A negligence lawsuit alleges a Fairview Heights woman's dog bit a child and she refused to cooperate with authorities, forcing the child to undergo rabies treatments. Plaintiffs Aidan and James Piper filed the lawsuit in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Cheryl D. Stump, citing negligence in violation of the Illinois Animal Control Act. According to the lawsuit, on…

Madison County resident Stephen Doerr is suing Monsanto Company, Springfield Farm Supply Co., Inc., and Alton Farm & Home Supply Co. According to the official court filing, Monsanto discovered the herbicidal properties of glyphosate and began marketing it in products in 1974 under the brand name Roundup. Said product is a non-selective herbicide used to kill weeds that typically compete…

Two women who joined a wide-ranging MDL against Cook Medical did not allege injuries more than the jurisdictional minimum of $75,000, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in vacating the district court’s grant of summary judgment in Cook’s favor. The plaintiffs in the two cases consolidated in a multidistrict litigation proceeding, Shirley Parton and Teresa Sykes, each alleged…

Seafood restaurant group Red Lobster LLC could not net a reversal from the Court of Appeals of Indiana on a ruling denying its motion for summary judgment in a negligence case. In May 2017, Abigail Fricke filed a Chapter 13 petition for bankruptcy with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana. That September, the bankruptcy court entered…

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…