An appeals court has ruled that a young man killed in the Chicago area by a speeding train can be sued by a woman who was injured after being struck by a flying piece of his body, according to a local ...

When people do really dumb things that result in their own deaths, the buck does not stop with the dead. The Chicago Tribune reports on the decision by an Illinois Appeals Court that the estate of a ...

An injured Chicago woman has won the right to sue a dead man after his severed leg hit her. The woman can pursue a claim against the estate of Hiroyuki Joho, 18, who walked in front of a train in 2008 ...