Thursday, May 23, 2013
A lawsuit alleges the experimental kit plane in which Kane County Bar Association member Kim Presbrey crashed was unfit for flying.
The estate of a Kane County lawyer is suing the companies that designed and built the experimental kit plane that crashed in Florida more than a year ago and ultimately resulted in the death of Kim Edward Presbrey. The lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court in connection with the April 2012 private-plane crash in DeLand, FL, north of Orlando where Presbrey was piloting his Seawind 3000 aircraft. Lawyers claim the Seawind "suddenly and unexpectedly lost power" shortly after takeoff and crashed into a local supermarket. Both Presbrey and his passenger suffered severe burns; the passenger survived but Presbrey, who was 60, died after about a month in intensive care. The Seawind 3000 is a composite, four-seat amphibian airplane …
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Remember the Aug. 4 storm that caused so much damage, including students at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark? Now three people are suing the Kane County Cougars and a catering company for injuries, the Daily Herald reports.
The Kane County Cougars and a catering business are being sued for injuries incurred by two St. Charles East students and a Northern Illinois University grad at a volunteer event last August at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark, the Daily Herald reports. On Aug. 4, a Patch reader initially said a tent went down at the ballpark campus, injuring two people. The storm knocked down trees and power lines. The Kane County Chronicle later that day reported that Mary Gaffney, then a Northern Illinois University student, was one of two people injured. Gaffney's father, Kevin, told the paper at the time that she suffered a fractured skull after a pole or 2-by-4 knocked her unconscious. Weather spotters reported wind gusts of up to 60 mph that Saturday, …
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Kane County Board member and county clerk candidate Cathy Hurlbut denies allegations made in a lawsuit claiming her son sexually assaulted a girl two years ago in the family's basement.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Parents who claim their daughter was sexually assaulted by the son of Kane County Board member Cathy Hurlbut seek $50,000 in damages for their daughter's physical and mental trauma. In response Hurlbut calls the lawsuit against her and her husband a case of "political extortion" and promises to fight the allegations "to the end." Reports by the Daily Herald and The Courier-News say the lawsuit, filed Nov. 29, claims the Hurlbuts' son sexually assaulted a girl two years ago in the family's basement, while Cathy Hurlbut and her husband, John, were upstairs and within earshot. The lawsuit says the incident took place on Dec. 1, 2009, when the youths were 16. Hurlbut strongly denies all allegations and told both news organizations her family …
Friday, July 22, 2011
Chief Deputy Loren Carrera's civil lawsuit claims retaliation included the coroner urinating on her office chair; hearing on criminal misconduct charges set for Aug. 22.
Coroner Chuck West and two of his deputy coroners claim the lawsuit against them by Chief Deputy Loren Carrera fails in several areas and want a judge to dismiss the case. Carrera sued her boss and co-workers earlier this year on the grounds she they retaliated against her for tipping off investigators to a wide range of problems in the office, including the handling of personal property in the death of a Carpentersville man. That situation is the basis for official misconduct charges in West's ongoing criminal case. West and deputy coroners Eric West and Lisa Gilbert filed a motion to dismiss last week that suggests several of Carrera's claims fail to hold water. Among their contentions is that Carrera cannot claim retaliation, because …
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Chief Deputy Loren Carrera's civil lawsuit claims retaliation included the coroner urinating on her office chair; hearing on criminal misconduct charges set for Aug. 22.
Coroner Chuck West and two of his deputy coroners claim the lawsuit against them by Chief Deputy Loren Carrera fails in several areas and want a judge to dismiss the case. Carrera sued her boss and co-workers earlier this year on the grounds she they retaliated against her for tipping off investigators to a wide range of problems in the office, including the handling of personal property in the death of a Carpentersville man. That situation is the basis for official misconduct charges in West's ongoing criminal case. West and deputy coroners Eric West and Lisa Gilbert filed a motion to dismiss last week that suggests several of Carrera's claims fail to hold water. Among their contentions is that Carrera cannot claim retaliation, because …
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Superintendent says the district is "gratified" by the decision.
A Kane County judge ruled in favor of St. Charles School District 303 Monday in a lawsuit filed by a group of parents looking to stop a school merger plan. Circuit Judge Thomas Mueller's decision, which essentially guts the parents' case, came after attorneys for the district successfully argued against the group's claim that a proposed merger of Davis and Richmond schools violated Illinois law, Superintendent Don Schlomann said Monday afternoon. "We're certainly gratified with the decision," Schlomann said. The group filed suit in March alleging the district wanted to combine the schools as a way to circumvent school improvement guidelines meant to remedy low test scores at Richmond. District 303 moved the case to federal court for …
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Report: Complaint of age and gender discrimination added to civil suit by former Heartland Elementary School principal.
The Kane County Chronicle's Brenda Schory reports Thursday that former Heartland Elementary School Principal Margaret Pennington has added a complaint with the Illinois Human Rights Commission to her civil suit against Geneva School District 304. Among other things, the age- and gender-discrimination complaint says the district paid Pennington less than two younger, less-experienced male elementary-school principals. Pennington was moved from principal to a school administrative position after she received a negative review in 2009. School District 304 Superintendent Kent Mutchler told the Chronicle that the bulk of Pennington's complaint was "patently false," and School District attorney James Petrungaro has filed a motion to dismiss the…
mike ellison
12:07 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013
The FAA accident site lists a number of incidents with the model of aircraft that he was flying. It's interesting in that there were a wide variety of causes. Seems to be an aircraft with too many design problems that also perhaps attracts people to it because of its novelty of being a float plane. I too was a pilot and an engine out upon takeoff is certain scary and something for which you can't… more ›