Collecting disability benefits does not always require current incapacitation. If the insured were to face a significant risk of serious illness or death by working, disability benefits are payable, ...

Where plaintiff asserts legal malpractice, they must show that but for the legal advice given they would have pursued a different course of action.The 1st District Appellate Court affirmed the ...

Where evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain conviction of wire fraud because amount of income defendant earned from employment was irrelevant to ineligibility for railroad disability ...

Where employee was fired for refusal to take unconscious bias training, employee could not show that he had an objectively reasonable belief that training violated the law, as was required for a claim ...

Attorney speaks on Gacy memoir-Ropes & Gray preps back-to-school backpacks Ropes & Gray associate attorney Andrew T. Pomranke lifts a pile of backpacks as a group from the firm volunteers at last week ...

A tractor mechanic who was fired for using medical marijuana off the job does not have a claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal judge ruled.In a written opinion, U.S. District ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, violates ...

A woman who alleges Xeris Pharmaceuticals fired her as a sales representative because she refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine does not have a case under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a federal ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a piece of marble at least 2 feet long crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides ...

If Marie and Peter Adams were to saw off a part of an 80-foot red oak that extends over their property line, it would probably kill the 100-year-old tree. Suing to protect their arboreal treasure, the ...

Where a defendant does not claim accident or mistake but simply denies the alleged criminal act took place, evidence of prior acts cannot be admitted to show defendant’s intent as it is not disputed, ...

Alderman Gardiner can’t bar Facebook critics, must set policy fitting 1st Amendment- Patricia [email protected] Alderman James Gardiner violated the First Amendment when he ...