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NBC 5: Lawsuit Claims District Failed to Protect Special Needs Student From Sex Assault
CHICAGO (March 4, 2020) – The parents of a special needs student claim she was sexually abused by a teaching aide because the Special Education District of Lake County failed to protect her, a new lawsuit claims. Israel Suaste-Gonzalez allegedly abused the student “many, many times” throughout the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school…
Chicago Tribune: Lawsuit alleges Lake County special ed district failed to protect student from repeated sexual abuse by teacher’s aide
CHICAGO (March 3, 2020) – The parents of Special Education District Lake County student they say was sexually abused by a teacher’s aide filed a lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that the district created the circumstances that allowed the abuse to occur. Please click here to read the full story from the Chicago…
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: Patrick Salvi II gives Sterigenics update at med mal summit
CHICAGO (February 25, 2020) – At the Exigent Medical Litigation Summit on Thursday at the American Writers Museum, plaintiff’s attorneys handling the litigation against Sterigenics offered updates on the case. Addressing the audience were Patrick A. Salvi II, Chicago managing partner of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard and Romanucci & Blandin attorneys…
Chicago Tribune: Libertyville police receive $1,000 donation for Narcan
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (February 25, 2020) – The Libertyville Police Department has received a $1,000 donation to go towards purchasing Narcan, a brand of naloxone, which is a medication used to help treat drug or alcohol overdoses. The donation came from Salvi, Schostok and Pritchard, P.C., which has donated $1,000 each…
Notre Dame Law School: Four members of Salvi family named 2020 Illinois Super Lawyers
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (February 24, 2020) – All four attorneys practice at Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard, a Chicago-based law firm founded in 1982 by Patrick A. Salvi. In addition to this recognition, Patrick A. Salvi was named to the Top 10 list of all Super Lawyers in Illinois for the seventh consecutive year….
Highland Park Landmark: Highland Park native named an Illinois ‘Super Lawyer’
CHICAGO (February 24, 2020) – Illinois Super Lawyers has named Highland Park native Rob L. Kohen as an Illinois Super Lawyer (Rising Star) for 2020. Mr. Kohen is an associate at the Chicago Personal Injury law firm Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard. He concentrates his legal practice in cases concerning serious personal…
ABC 7: Sterigenics accused of paying investors millions to avoid paying victims affected by pollution
CHICAGO (February 4, 2020) – Last year, Sterigenics permanently close its facility in southwest suburban Willowbrook after months of controversy after testing found it emitted a cancer-causing chemical into the air around the plant. Now, several of the families who claim they were affected by those chemicals say the company is making it…
WBEZ: Did Sterigenics Preemptively Pay Out Investors To Drain Legal Settlement Funds?
CHICAGO (February 4, 2020) – The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency shut down the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook last year after discovering high levels of ethylene oxide near the facility. Now, the lawyers suing Sterigenics claim the company not only made people sick, but it redirected $1.3 billion in an effort to…
Cook County Record: Sterigenics moved to put $1.3B ‘out of reach’ of personal injury lawsuits
CHICAGO (February 4, 2020) – A group of lawyers leading dozens of lawsuits over claims emissions from a Willowbrook facility caused cancer have now accused medical device sterilization company Sterigenics of taking action, even years before the first lawsuit was filed, to reduce the potential pot of money the plaintiffs lawyers…
WGN: Victims accuse Sterigenics of moving over $1 billion to safeguard money from lawsuits
CHICAGO (February 4, 2020) – A lawsuit filed Monday accuses medical sterilization company Sterigenics of funneling more than a billion dollars to investors so the funds couldn’t be used to pay legal damages. Sterigenics announced it was permanently closing its Willowbrook facility in September, but people who lived nearby over the…
