The firearms industry, including gun sellers, could be sued for alleged violations of Illinois law, including marketing to young people, under legislation Illinois state senators approved Thursday.

A trial court erred in ordering a woman to produce her mother’s unredacted mental health records in a medical negligence and wrongful death lawsuit over the mother’s death from lung cancer, a state appellate panel held.

Claims of intentional infliction of emotional distress cannot succeed in a lawsuit against Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. and several of its physicians by the father of a child who was cut from his mother’s womb after she was killed, a state appellate panel ruled.

An attorney who misused $341,000 of client money and treated one trust account as a “personal slush fund” should be disbarred, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission hearing board.

An insurance company does not have a duty to defend a doctor accused of sexually abusing a patient, a state appellate panel ruled.

The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states including Illinois to settle claims that the company engaged in anticompetitive practices, it announced Friday.

As part of its annual “Ride the Circuit” event, the Illinois Supreme Court appeared at Chicago State University Thursday to hear oral arguments in two criminal cases before an audience of nearly 400 students and attorneys.

The family of a woman who died from a stroke resulting from an untreated dural tear was awarded $4 million by a Winnebago County Circuit Court jury.