EDWARDSVILLE – Circuit Judge Sarah Smith plans to start trial Jan. 9 for former Lewis and Clark Fleeting tugboat worker Kevin Mogensen, who claims dust from corn and other products damaged his lungs.
A barge company argues that a man’s lawsuit alleging he slipped on ice, fell into the Mississippi River during a snowstorm and became trapped under the barge should be dismissed because the incident was the result of the natural accumulation of snow and ice and was not foreseeable.