More than $35 million in assistance has been provided to Arkansas residents who were affected by severe storms, tornadoes and flooding that pounded the state between April 14 and June 3. The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management and the Federal …
A federal jury awarded $10 million this week to the family of a North Carolina teenager who died after a police officer shocked him with a Taser at the grocery store where he worked, according to court documents. The jury …
A Cedar Falls couple has been awarded $1.3 million in their lawsuit against the doctor who delivered their baby. A jury deliberated for about five hours before awarding Alan and Larysa the funds for injuries to their daughter during childbirth. …
A federal jury has awarded $20,000 in compensatory damages to a Muslim woman who alleged that Abercrombie & Fitch discriminated against her because she wore a head scarf. The six-member panel deliberated more than four hours Wednesday before deciding on …
A Comanche County jury has awarded $6.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died at a Lawton prison. Jurors concluded that GEO Group employees failed to protect Ronald Sites while he was being held at the …
A Vermont jury has awarded $251,799 in damages to a physician who was allegedly promised a research fellowship in psychiatry that was later withdrawn. Dr. Lari Young said Fletcher Allen Health Care fellowship program director Dr. Richard Bernstein recruited her …
The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a former state representative who contested a jury’s decision that he must pay about $1.4 million to a couple after one of them was injured on a broken stairway. The justices …
A former Twin Cities attorney has been ordered to pay $15 million to the trust of a teenager he sexually assaulted. Forty-eight-year-old Aaron Biber is serving an 18-year prison sentence for assaulting his son’s friend, who was a neighbor. Court …
The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld an award of $18 million in exemplary damages to an Xcel Energy lineman who was injured when a Qwest Communications International Inc. telephone pole that he was working on collapsed. Andrew Blood was injured …
A British woman who claims a botched facelift left her with a “monster eye” was awarded nearly 6.2 million pounds ($9.9 million) by the High Court Monday. Penny Johnson, 49, sued her surgeon, Dr. Le Roux Fourie after receiving a …