Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill designed to limit attorneys’ fees after a well-known lemon law lawyer collected more than $150,000 in an auto-repair dispute. The measure, part of Walker’s special legislative session on jobs, requires judges to …
A woman who was struck by a school bus when she was in high school and lost her left leg was awarded $14 million by a Pennsylvania jury on Monday, although the award is likely to be reduced under state …
Oklahomans who drive drunk or fail to stop for a school bus loading or unloading children will face stiff new penalties beginning Tuesday. Nearly 200 new Oklahoma laws are scheduled to take effect, ranging from sweeping changes to the way …
A Kanawha County judge has affirmed most of a $91.5 million damage award against a Charleston nursing home in a lawsuit that claimed it failed to properly feed and care for an elderly woman who died hours after leaving the …
The Mississippi Supreme Court has asked attorneys for more information as it considers whether the state’s limitation on damages in civil cases is constitutional. In an order last month, the court asked attorneys for Sears, Roebuck and Co., and for …
Lawyers for a West Virginia nursing home are preparing to take a case to the state’s Supreme Court on the grounds that a $91.5 million jury award should be reduced under the state’s medical malpractice law. In August, after a …
New York’s top court says Canada’s limit on damages for pain and suffering applies to claims against the Canadian charter bus company and driver deemed 90 percent liable for the 2005 crash that killed three passengers traveling with an Ontario …