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Ratliff v. Jefferson Pilot Fin. Ins. Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action arising from a denial of claims for long term and partial disability benefits by defendant, an employer's disability benefit...

Vickers v. Powell

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In action for wrongful discharge, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed as to finding that plaintiff was not the victim of illegal retaliation...

Corder v. Corder

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a consolidated wrongful death action wherein one defendant settled with the decedent's wife and his adult daughter for an unapportioned lump sum of...

Hossack v. Floor Covering Assocs. of Joliet, Inc.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging discrimination where one participant of an extramarital affair involving two of defendant's employees was dismissed and the other...

IntraComm, Inc. v. Bajaj

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In breach of contract and fraud action, summary judgment for defendants on state law claims, and partial summary judgment for plaintiffs on minimum...

IntraComm, Inc. v. Bajaj

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In breach of contract and fraud action, summary judgment for defendants on state law claims, and partial summary judgment for plaintiffs on minimum...

Beugler v. Burlington N. & Santa Fe Ry. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In a negligence suit brought against a railroad by another railroad's conductor, who injured his neck and back by turning his body in response to a...

Flinders v. Workforce Stabilization Plan of Phillips Petroleum Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action alleging that defendant-plan wrongfully denied benefits to plaintiffs, a class of former employees of the Phillips Petroleum...

White v. The Workers' Compensation Comm'n

Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a Workers' Compensation claim arising from repetitive trauma injuries, reversal of order to pay temporary and permanent total disability benefits...

Trs. of the Chicago Painters and Decorators Pension v. Royal Int'l Drywall and Decorating, Inc.

Evidence, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a suit by union trust funds claiming that defendant violated collective bargaining agreements by failing to compensate the funds for each hour the...