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A defunct Atlanta broker-dealer's former head of fixed income securities pled not guilty Wednesday to securities and wire fraud charges stemming from an alleged scheme in which he executed unauthorized trades that caused $30 million in losses and bankrupted his employer.
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday refused to grant a preliminary injunction to more than a dozen NorthShore University HealthSystem employees with religious objections to getting COVID-19 vaccines, saying their alleged injury is compensable through damages and they therefore don't face irreparable harm.
The Continental Insurance Co. asked an Illinois state court Friday to declare it owes no coverage for a $32 million damages award in a suit brought by a worker alleging his wife died of mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure through his work at a facility owned by Kraft Heinz.
An Illinois federal judge has awarded plaintiffs nearly $600,000 in attorney fees for showing Cook County consistently violated decades-old federal consent decrees requiring it to monitor political patronage in Chicago, which prompted the appointment of a compliance administrator last year.
A lower court didn't err when it allowed and relied on expert testimony from a urologist in a medical malpractice suit brought by a man who claimed failure by a Chicago U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs clinic to diagnose his urinary tract infection led to his heart attack, the Seventh Circuit ruled Thursday.