Thursday, January 31, 2013
A young woman who police said broke her arm when it was run over by her friend's drug dealer has filed a lawsuit.
When the Shorewood police arrested a teen for allegedly beating and robbing another teenager who was trying to buy drugs from him, they also said the supposed dealer ran over a young woman's arm, but never charged him with harming her. Now, more than a year and a half later, the woman's taking justice into her own hands and suing the man she says crushed her under his car. Jessica Lood, 22, filed the lawsuit against 20-year-old Jacob Gajcak, who was 18 when he supposedly ran her over with his Chevy Impala. According to the lawsuit, in May 2011, Lood was in a car driven by 19-year-old Richard Englund. According to the police, she was also with Paul Durys, 19, of Plainfield, and they headed to Shorewood so Durys could buy marijuana from …
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
A Frankfort pediatrician accused by five women of sexually abusing them in his office has been sued by a sixth woman making startlingly similar claims.
A Frankfort pediatrician acquitted of charges he groped a Joliet woman in his office more than 10 years ago has been smacked with a lawsuit alleging he pulled the same stunt on another woman in 2011. The lawsuit claims Dr. Kishor Jain touched the mother of one of his patients "in a sexual fashion" and caused the woman "shock and horror." The woman had taken her child to Jain's office in the Hedges Clinic in August 2011 when he suddenly "grabbed (her) breasts with both of his hands while she was talking to him about her child." Jain said he remembers the woman, identified in the lawsuit as Jessica Schubbe, 29, of Manteno, but denies ever molesting her. "The accusation is completely false," Jain said. "The person has other problems and she's…
Thursday, January 24, 2013
A Joliet lawyer filed the lawsiut on behalf of the cut-legged woman in Will County court.
A woman who cut her leg while shaving more than two years ago is suing an international razor company for the pain and suffering she has endured. Joliet attorney Thomas Cowgill filed the lawsuit against Schick, Schick-Wilkinson Sword and Energizer Holdings in Will County court. Schick and Wilkinson Sword are two of Energizer Holdings' 30 brands. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a woman identified only as Brandy McCarthy. Except for her name, there is no other information about McCarthy included in the lawsuit. A Will County woman named Brandy McCarthy contacted through Facebook said she is not the one suing Schick. Cowgill failed to return calls to his office Wednesday about the legal action. The lawsuit claims McCarthy was shaving her …
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
A Harvey man in jail on a burglary charge out of Frankfort says he is afraid correctional officers will kill him for lawsuits he filed alleging he was beaten and abused.
Six months after he was locked up in the Will County jail on burglary and theft charges, William Jenkins said guards bashed his head against a shower stall wall before pushing and punching him during a strip search. Six months after that alleged attack, the 29-year-old Harvey man said members of the jail's black-clad Emergency Response Team locked went into his cell and beat him so badly he was sent to the medical wing for two weeks. Jenkins sued six different deputies—three in connection with each alleged attack—shortly after the respective incidents. And now he fears he will be killed for blowing the whistle, said his lawyer. "That's exactly what he is alleging," said Joliet attorney John Schrock, adding that Jenkins is in "serious fear …
Monday, December 10, 2012
The mother of a Manhattan man killed in an August Frankfort Township wreck sued the New Lenox man who was driving.
The mother of a Manhattan man killed when the car he was riding in crashed and burst into flame has sued the New Lenox man who was driving. Kim Stevens, the mother of Jake Stevens, 22, of Manhattan, has petitioned to be named the administrator of her dead son's estate. She simultaneously filed a lawsuit going after the man who was driving when her son was killed. The suit accuses Kevin Krohn, 22, of speeding and failing to keep a proper lookout. It does not accuse Krohn of driving drunk, but he faces a felony charge of aggravated driving under the influence. Krohn is free on a $75,000 bond. He is due back in court for his criminal case Dec. 18. Stevens was the sole passenger in the car Krohn was driving. Krohn was arrested 12 days after …
Thursday, December 6, 2012
A Joliet man injured when he crashed his car into a bull is blaming the animal's owner.
A Joliet man is suing the owner of a bull for allegedly letting the animal walk out on a Kendall County road and into the path of his Toyota. The lawsuit filed on behalf of Joliet resident Ghulam D. Butt claims that after running head-on into the bull Butt crashed into a ditch and was injured. Butt's son directed questions about the crash and lawsuit to his attorney. But the lawyer who filed the lawsuit, Mark T. Schneid of Naperville, failed to return calls for comment. According to the lawsuit, Butt was heading south on Ridge Road in Na-Au-Say township on Aug. 30 when a "bull animal walked into the roadway directly in front of (his) vehicle causing a severe frontal impact to (his) vehicle and causing (Butt) to lose control and crash into …
Monday, November 19, 2012
The county and a private nursing company were also named in the suit filed by the attorney for an unidentified man with HIV.
A nurse working at the county jail told an inmate's brother he has HIV, causing him "great humiliation and mental anguish," according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court on Friday. The HIV-infected inmate's name was withheld in the lawsuit. The man's attorney, William R. Cassian, filed a petition to "proceed under (a) fictitious name" on the grounds that the suit "involves very private information that is so sensitive" it is protected by the state's HIV Disclosure Act. The petition says the man is older than 18 and lives in DuPage County. The lawsuit alleges the unidentified man was "confined in the detention center" on Nov. 18, 2011. According to jail records, of the 24 men locked up in the Will County Adult Detention Center on Nov. …
The father of a woman who died in a Wilmington nursing home is suing the place, along with three doctors and a nurse.
The father of a 24-year-old woman who was treated for chest pains at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center and died four days later at a Wilmington nursing home has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Nebraska resident Fred Saltzman filed the suit in Will County court Friday. Saltzman's daughter, Tenessa Marie Vincent, died in Wilmington's Embassy Care Center in November 2010. An obituary on Legacy.com said Vincent was a Joliet resident. According to the lawsuit, Vincent was admitted to the hospital with chest pains. She was discharged two days later and sent to Embassy Care Center. Between her discharge and death, Vincent was given at least 10 different medications, including a potent painkiller on a transdermal patch, the lawsuit said. An …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Super-suer Jonathan Lee Riches recently made his way into the file for Drew Peterson's murder case, but it wasn't his first legal action against the disgraced ex-cop.
Serial suer Jonathan Lee Riches made a splash when he filed a wild letter in convicted wife-killer Drew Peterson's court case, but it wasn't the first legal action he's taken against the disgraced former Bolingbrook cop. Riches, who has filed lawsuits against Bill Belichick, George W. Bush, Steve Jobs and Perez Hilton, sued Peterson and slain third wife Kathleen Savio back in January 2008. At the time, Savio had been dead for nearly four years, Peterson was more than a year away from being charged with her murder, and Riches was doing time in a South Carolina federal prison for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aiding and abetting. In the 2008 lawsuit filed in California's Northern District, Riches accused Peterson and Savio…
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The former Oak Brook cop son of Drew Peterson has a $10 million lawsuit, says the Sun-Times.
The disgraced former Oak Brook cop son of disgraced former Bolingbrook cop (and current murder defendant) Drew Peterson claims in a $10 million lawsuit his rights were violated when he was fired, according to a story in the Sun-Times. Stephen Peterson, who was fired in February 2011, is suing in federal court. He is going after former Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan, Fire and Police Board Chairman Frederick Cappetta and the Village of Oak Brook. The three-man Oak Brook Fire and Police board voted as a bloc in 2011 to ax Stephen Peterson from the department he had worked at for more than six years. Sheahan had charged Stephen Peterson with obstructing investigators, possession of an unlawful weapon, and failing to keep an internal …
Kevin S
8:10 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013
Maybe she didn't know what the fight was about (that this stupid punk tried to jack one of his customers) but she damn well knew she was on a ride along for a dope deal. Sometimes these meetings don't go so well sweetheart, suck it up and take it as a lesson. When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. THAT, is an actual fact. more ›