Category: Environmental Contamination

Illinois has one of the highest numbers of lead service lines in the nation, an estimated 600,000 in Chicago alone. For decades, those pipes have quietly carried drinking water into homes, schools, and childcare centers, exposing countless residents to toxic levels of lead. Despite public awareness ...

Collins Law Group is proud to represent Illinois families, property owners, and businesses devastated by natural gas explosions. These incidents are sudden, violent, and life-changing — often destroying homes, injuring bystanders, and leaving entire communities with lasting trauma. While utility c...

Collins Law Group is proud to serve communities and businesses throughout Illinois who are facing the devastating impact of PFAS contamination. As environmental advocates and trial attorneys, we’ve seen how exposure to these so-called “forever chemicals” can harm public health, destroy propert...

When communities are impacted by industrial fires, people need straight answers and practical help. The experienced environmental attorneys at Collins Law Group have stood with residents after major chemical and lubricant‐facility disasters—including the Chemtool catastrophe in Rockton, Illinois...

For the last 50 years, EPA has buckled to pressure from the chemical industry, and basically done nothing to protect millions of Americans from breathing a life-threatening, cancer-causing chemical known as “ethylene oxide” (ETO). Along the way, EPA even repeatedly violated federal law – the �...

Who’s protecting the residents of Cicero and Stickney, IL, from the tons of toxic chemical emissions migrating from the massive, 36-acre Koppers coal tar plant at the corner of Laramie and Pershing roads? The danger is that these chemicals from Koppers are blowing into nearby residential neighborh...

For years, the big cereal companies have been telling us that a bowl of whole grain oat cereal for breakfast is a healthy way to start our day. Turns out maybe it isn’t. A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has uncovered a toxic chemical, chlormequat, in popular oat cereals like...

Attorney Shawn Collins, founder and partner of Collins Law Group in Naperville, Illinois, was instrumental in forging a $408 million settlement of the cancer claims of more than 800 plaintiffs in In re Willowbrook Ethylene Oxide Litigation, venued in Illinois State Court (Cook County). The claims ar...

We are proud to announce that our $363 million verdict in Kamuda v. Sterigenics U.S. LLC, et al., was named the number one jury verdict in Illinois in ALL practice areas in 2022 by Top Verdict. In addition, this verdict was the second highest personal injury verdict in the entire United States and t...

Partner Shawn Collins is featured in an interview in Lawyer Monthly magazine this month. Below is an excerpt from the article. Leading the Charge Against America’s Biggest Polluters Instances of harmful pollution and ecological disasters have grown unsettlingly commonplace in the US – despite en...