A semi-truck driver was recently denied workers’ compensation benefits for injuries stemming from an on-the-job fistfight because an arbitrator and the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission determined that he was the “aggressor” in the altercation. In the matter of Locker v. Mr. Bult’s Inc., Mr. Locker, a semi-truck driver for a waste management company, was waiting>> Read More

On March 31, 2017, pharmaceutical giant Mylan N.V. announced an expansion of its voluntary recall of select lots of EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. Auto-Injectors, manufactured by its partner, Pfizer’s Meridian Medical Technologies, for their “failure to activate.” This expanded EpiPen recall was announced just days before Mylan was hit with a class-action racketeering lawsuit for>> Read More

A Villa Park woman died in a Highland Park nursing home because of what her family and their attorneys alleged was a misread medical chart. A lawsuit was recently filed. Kim Cencula, 52, was staying last year at the Warren Barr North Shore nursing home while she recovered from a recent bout of pneumonia. While>> Read More