Jury awards $363 million to Willowbrook woman, finds Sterigenics liable for exposing her to cancer-causing ethylene oxide

Jury awards $363 million to Willowbrook woman, finds Sterigenics liable for exposing her to cancer-causing ethylene oxide

Around the same time that Sue Kamuda moved to Willowbrook in the mid-1980s, a Chicago company chose the western suburbs as the new site for its expanding business of sterilizing medical instruments, pharmaceutical drugs and spices. Two low buildings, tucked behind retailers and restaurants on Kingery Highway, didn’t get much attention until 2018, when the …

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