all - Opinion Summaries

Tverberg v. Fillner Constr.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a personal injury action against general contractor for negligence, premises liability, and loss of consortium, summary judgment for defendant is...

Paul v. Landsafe Flood Determination Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Water Law
In a suit alleging negligence and negligent misrepresentation in an erroneous determination that plaintiffs' home was not located in a flood zone,...

US v. Eghbal

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Remedies, White Collar Crime
In a civil action brought under the False Claims Act against defendants for making false statements to procure home mortgage insurance from the...

Kellogg v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming plaintiff was wrongly denied accidental death and dismemberment benefits under an employee welfare benefit plan regulated by...

Applebaum v. Rush Univ. Med. Ctr.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law
In a wrongful death action brought by plaintiff physician-attorney beneficiary seeking damages in the name of the estate and decedent-father,...

Taylor v. Pekin Ins. Co.

Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action to recover from a work-related injury beyond workers' compensation benefits, circuit court decision dismissing plaintiff's complaint for...

Ready v. United/Goedecke Servs., Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a wrongful-death action stemming from the death of plaintiff's husband in a workplace accident, a court of appeals decision partially reversing a...

Grissom v. Mills Corp.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action against former employer for common law breach of contract, common law defamation per se, and violation of the whistleblower provision of...

Platone v. US Dept. of Labor

Administrative Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a claim by an employee alleging employer fraud, denial of whistleblower protection under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is affirmed where: 1) a complainant...

Boim v. Holy Land Found. for Relief and Dev.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit arising from the murder of an American in Israel, alleging that defendants, three organizations and one individual, had provided financial...