Urging Governor J.B. Pritzker to veto an Illinois bill that will add prejudgment interest to awards in personal injury and other lawsuits, defense counsel sets forth the inequitable nature of the bill wherein it penalizes civil defendants for exercising their right to litigate a case through trial and does not promote a fair and balanced judicial system. On behalf of the firm’s clients, including hospitals and healthcare workers, Krista Frick has penned a letter to Governor Pritzker voicing the need to veto the bill.
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Barker, Castro & Steinback is proud to announce three attorneys have been named to the Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists in 2021.
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Associate Laura Wibberley addresses the applicability of immunity from civil liability amidst the continuing challenges of staffing shortages, insufficient supplies and delayed vaccine administration in her case law update titled “The PREP Act Update: The Prevailing COVID-19 Immunities.”
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In a medical malpractice action brought against a physician client over 7 years ago, partner Krista Frick recently secured a win before the Illinois Appellate Court Third District in a petition for rehearing wherein the Third District reversed its own prior ruling in relation to summary judgment on the element of duty.
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The Cook County Law Division’s latest General Administrative Order 20-9, issued on 12/17/20, supersedes all previous GAOs issued during the pandemic.
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In a recent medical negligence appeal, partner Krista Frick achieved a win for a dermatologist client by disproving the plaintiff’s claims that the trial court erred by giving a “sole proximate cause” instruction and that the jury’s verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence.
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Andrea Kott will moderate a panel discussion with Chief Judge James P. Flannery, Jr. and Judge Thomas More Donnelly along with Anne Kuban to discuss the recent General Administrative Orders enacted since the pandemic.
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Andrea Kott shared insights on attorney/client and insurer/insured privilege as well as attorney work product doctrine in medical malpractice litigation to a group of healthcare and legal professionals at a Chicago-based health system in a recent panel presentation.
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The First District Appellate Court recently ruled that defendant physicians can be confronted at trial with at trial with the substance of their Rule 213(f)(3) disclosures just as retained experts are.
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BCKS founding partner Anne Kuban recently represented a client who was considered high-risk to COVID-19 exposure and sought reasonable work accommodations during the pandemic.
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