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EDWARDSVILLE A Madison County man claims his insurance provider is using bogus excuses to avoid payment of a claim for the loss of his tractor equipment due to a fire.
Dale Grapperhaus filed a complaint April 8 in Madison County Circuit Court against Country Mutual Insurance Company and Brett Miller alleging breach of contract and negligence.
Grapperhaus entered into a contract for insurance with Country Mutual through Miller, according to the suit. Grapperhous alleges that on Oct. 11, 2020, he sustained a complete loss of his Case-IH combine AF 7320 and forty-foot Case I-H combine head 2162 due to a fire that was not his fault.
According to a report by consulting firm KCIC, Madison and St. Clair Counties saw the most asbestos cases filed in the nation in 2020.
KCIC’s Asbestos Litigation: 2020 Year in Review report became available Thursday and lists Madison and St. Clair Counties at the top of the 15 jurisdictions with the most asbestos cases filed last year.
“Illinois - and Madison County in particular - continues to be the epicenter for asbestos filings,” the report states.
According to the report, asbestos filings for 2020 as a whole decreased 11 percent compared to 2019. There were 4,137 cases filed in 2019 and 3,685 cases filed last year total. Prior to 2019, asbestos filings had declined by an average of about 8 percent per year since 2016. Then filings from 2018 to 2019 remained stagnant before the 11 percent drop.
Walker, Smith right choices for Alton
Luther Simmons, Jr.
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We, are a coalition of Black Alton natives who remain civically engaged in our hometown community, support Brant Walker for Mayor and Tammy Smith for Alderwoman.
Under Walker’s leadership downtown Alton is no longer ravaged by 100 year floods, city streets are being paved, home ownership assistance programs have helped 200 Altonians achieve the dream of home ownership, Pre covid unemployment was at a very respectable 4%, Killion Park (Salu) facilities have been improved for our youth, and diversity and inclusion at city hall is higher than that of all previous Alton mayors combined. Also, the list of Mayor Walker’s Community Policing programs is far too numerous to mention here.
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LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California appeals court has sharply limited the ability to obtain punitive damages against corporations, ruling in an asbestos lawsuit that the plaintiff had failed to identify specific employees who engaged in behavior deserving such punishment.
The plaintiff in
Morgan v. J-M Manufacturing, a construction worker afflicted with fatal mesothelioma, sued former units of bankrupt asbestos manufacturer Johns-Mansville over claims it had sold asbestos-containing concrete pipe that caused his illness. The jury awarded the late Norris Morgan and his widow $15.3 million in compensatory damages and another $15 million in punitives.
The defendant company argued the Morgans weren’t entitled to punitive damages because they failed to show any particular officer or executive authorized the type of conduct meriting exemplary damages. Plaintiff lawyers at Simmons Hanly Conroy argued the entire organization was at fault, so