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The Guardian: It’s a colorless, toxic gas. A US woman won $363M after years of exposure
CHICAGO (November 28, 2022) – For more than 30 years, Sue Kamuda lived with her family several hundred yards away from an unassuming brick building situated in a small office park. Neither Kamuda nor the surrounding community knew that the building housed a company called Sterigenics that was spewing a…
Attorney Jaclyn J. Kurth Authors Article For The Docket
Attorney Jaclyn J. Kurth wrote an article entitled “Till Death Do Us Part: Civil Damages After Remarriage” for The Docket November 2022. November 2022 Docket Article
Cases against Sterigenics for toxic emissions to be tried in groups beginning in 2023
CHICAGO (October 24, 2022) – On October 21, 2022, Judge James Flannery, Presiding Judge of the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, granted a request to allow multiple Plaintiffs with cases pending against medical device sterilization plant Sterigenics to have their cases heard within a single jury…
Patrick Salvi II interviewed on Mass Tort News LegalCast
CHICAGO (October 4, 2022) – Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard Chicago Managing Partner, Patrick A. Salvi II, was recently interviewed on Mass Tort News’s LegalCast podcast about his record-breaking $363 million jury verdict against medical device sterilization company, Sterigenics. During the podcast, Mr. Salvi discusses strategies used during trial and the…
Local and national media outlets report on record-breaking $363 million Sterigenics verdict
CHICAGO (September 20, 2022) – A Cook County jury awarded a record-breaking $363 million verdict Monday to a woman who alleged that emissions from medical device sterilization company Sterigenics caused her to develop cancer, in the first lawsuit of more than 700 set to go to trial against the company….
The Daily Herald: Libertyville attorneys named to the Best Lawyers in America list
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (August 26, 2022) – Attorneys Jennifer L. Ashley and Tara R. Devine, both of Libertyville, have been named to the 2023 Edition of Best Lawyers, one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. Attorneys named to the Best Lawyers in America list are…
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: FAQs on new time standards in Cook County Circuit Court
CHICAGO -New time standards in Cook County Circuit Court give attorneys more responsibility for shepherding discovery with limited oversight, with the goal of moving all cases along faster. The imposition of blanket deadlines seems like a daunting task to some, though there are no penalties for failing to meet the…
Downers Grove Patch: Downers Grove Attorney Boeder Recognized Among America’s Best
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. — A Downers Grove resident and attorney has been recognized among the nation’s top lawyers according to an annual publication that publishes the list each year. Aaron D. Boeder, a partner at the Illinois personal injury firm Salvi, Schostok and Pritchard, has been named among America’s top…
Illinois Patch: Willowbrook Woman’s Sterigenics Suit Headed To Trial
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. – A Willowbrook woman who alleges pollution from the old Stergenics plant caused her breast cancer will get her case heard soon, her lawyer said Thursday. The woman, Sue Kamuda, lived about one-third of a mile from the Willowbrook Sterigenics plant. The trial is set to start Wednesday…
FOX 32: Suburban cancer patient who’s suing Willowbrook Sterigenics plant heads to trial next week
WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (August 12, 2022) – The first lawsuit out of potentially hundreds against Sterigenics is headed to trial next week. The company, which sterilizes medical devices, is accused of illegally releasing a cancer-causing waste (ethylene oxide) into the air at its Willowbrook facility. That allegedly lead to a cluster of…
