Last week, Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed five lawsuits against the Diocese of Joliet for failing to protect children from predatory and pedophile priests and teaching staff within the Diocese. This abuse occurred during the 1970s and ‘80s while the...
Read MoreLast week, [[title]] filed lawsuits in the Circuit Court of Cook County on behalf of men who were sexually abused as children at three Congregation of Christian Brothers high schools: Brother Rice, Leo and St. Laurence. Each of these high...
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Central DuPage Hospital fired a part-time chaplain after learning about allegations of “inappropriate behavior” with a boy from years earlier. The alleged inappropriate behavior occurred while the chaplain served as a priest in the Joliet Diocese and resulted...
Read MoreAfter a lengthy fight to keep the files private, the Joliet Diocese recently agreed to turn over the personnel files of 16 priests with substantiated allegations of child sex abuse against them. As expected, these files show that the Joliet...
Read MoreA Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million to a retired Montana prison guard in a verdict against Johnson & Johnson's DePuy orthopedic unit. Like many others, this man received a defective hip implant from DePuy and needed to have the...
Read MoreEarlier this month, a Boy Scouts assistant scout master was arrested in New York and charged with possessing child pornography. According to reports, authorities found hundreds of images of pornography on his computer involving children as young as five years...
Read MoreResearchers have determined that consumption of grapefruit in combination with medication can cause a potentially deadly overdose. A substance in the fruit can prevent drugs from being broken down by the body, which can lead to dangerously high levels of...
Read MoreLast week, an employee of a Chicago-area supermarket got his hand caught in a meat grinder while processing meat. Firefighters were called to the supermarket and attempted to take apart the meat grinder in order to free the man's hand...
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