A gun shop’s insurance policy does not cover the cost of defending itself from a dozen lawsuits brought by survivors and families of victims of the mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade last year, a federal judge held.

A Rock Island County jury awarded a record $2.8 million verdict to a motorcyclist who sustained several fractures when he slid under a pickup truck.

A Kane County judge incorrectly excluded relevant evidence and witnesses in tossing a suit alleging a law firm owes $777,000 from a personal injury recovery to the estate of its longtime of counsel, a state appellate panel ruled.

The Illinois Supreme Court disbarred two attorneys and suspended three, including a retired Cook County judge charged with soliciting prostitution, in its November term.

Allowing an expert on memory to take the witness stand in the trial of a man accused of lying to FBI agents could prompt jurors to “leave their common sense and collective wisdom at the door” and instead struggle to apply scientific concepts to everyday matters, a federal judge held Monday.

Amundsen Davis does not have to face claims alleging it negligently represented an electronics corporation in a lawsuit against its insurance broker, a state appellate panel held.

The City of Chicago and its airport property manager do not have to face a lawsuit alleging liability for unsafe water accumulation in an O’Hare International Airport bathroom that caused a woman to fall, a state appellate panel ruled.

The family of a woman who froze to death in her Rockford home has settled with the owner-landlords for $1 million.