Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will pay a $15 million penalty as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to four financial advisers who stole millions of dollars of ...
A trustee who oversaw the bankruptcy auction of Alex Jones’ Infowars asked a judge on Tuesday to approve The Onion’s winning bid for the conspiracy-filled platform.
For some lawyers, according to U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole of the Northern District of Illinois, “enough is never enough.” ...
Where a business files an insurance claim under a commercial policy for loss due to regulation relating to COVID-19, the claim may be denied as it is not related to physical damage.
After an extraordinarily short day of trial Monday, jurors may only remember one detail: those high up in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2018 campaign had nicknamed then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan — ...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently rejected an insured’s “stacking” claim under an automobile policy, but allowed a bad-faith claim for an insurer’s delayed payment ...
People with substance use disorder across the country are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 ...
Retired Judge Thomas J. O’Brien, who died Saturday at age 92 after a long illness, is being remembered for his fairness and honesty.
A Cook County jury found a University of Chicago Medical Center hospital is not liable for the death of a 2-month-old boy who died a day after being discharged from the emergency room with cold and ...
An Illinois law that revokes the designation of a spouse as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy following a divorce does not apply retroactively, a federal judge held.
Where district court erroneously gave flight instruction but defendant would have been convicted even in absence of instruction, error survived plain error review.
Where a student is expelled for the possession of an apparent weapon, the Board of Education has discretion to determine whether alternative interventions were appropriate or available.