The New Jersey Special Investigators Association (NJSIA) recently honored Bill Ballinger, president of Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company, with the association’s “Claim Executive of the Year” award. The award recognizes executives, outside of the special investigators unit community, for their …
A Massachusetts judge on Friday awarded a total of $3 million to two child sex abuse victims of a former Franciscan priest who served prison time for child molestation in a separate case. Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders entered the …
A Nevada jury found drug companies liable Wednesday for $104 million in damages in a third product liability lawsuit stemming from a hepatitis C outbreak four years ago at Las Vegas outpatient colonoscopy clinics owned by a doctor now facing …
A Nevada jury is ordering pharmaceutical companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak in 2008. The damages awarded Monday in Clark County District Court are on top of …
A federal jury has awarded a female correction officer in upstate New York $465,000 after she said she was sexually harassed by another guard. Amy Negron said a corporal at the Ulster County Jail cornered her, grabbed her genitals and …
Three Los Angeles police detectives have won $2.5 million in a gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against LAPD supervisors. A jury deliberated only a few hours before returning the verdict last week. The Los Angeles Times says Peter Bakotich, Michael …
A Southern California jury has awarded $48 million to a man who got a severe skin disorder and mouth blood blisters after taking the pain reliever Motrin. Christopher Trejo filed the negligence suit against McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of …
A former Texarkana, Arkansas, teacher was awarded $500,000 in a discrimination lawsuit and is to get her old job back. The Texarkana Gazette reports that Andrea Johnson claimed she was wrongly fired for allegedly giving answers to a math exam …
The families of two women killed in a boat crash on Lake Murray last year will each be paid nearly $250,000 by the family of the man who authorities say caused the collision. The State newspaper reported Tuesday the court-approved …
A judge says Wal-Mart must pay up for overpricing sausages by two cents. Consumer activist Mary Bach was awarded $100 in damages and $80 in court costs Thursday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports. Bach, of Murrysville, says sausages she purchased last …