A judge in Ohio has approved a $2.5 million wrongful death settlement in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman by a police officer. The shooting during a drug raid in 2008 set off protests about police treatment of minorities. …
Kenneth Feinberg, the formerly freewheeling administrator of BP Plc’s fund to compensate victims of last year’s oil spill, could be forced to revamp dramatically how he handles claims now that the fund has come under the jurisdiction of a federal …
Two Costa Rican men accused in a $670 million insurance industry scam have pleaded not guilty in federal court in Virginia. Minor Vargas Calvo and Jorge Luis Castillo entered their pleas Wednesday in Richmond on seven counts of conspiracy, wire …
A lawyer for a young man paralyzed from the waist down in a 2007 shooting in a Kent, Wash., restaurant says a jury has awarded more than $46 million to three victims. Lawyer Ron Perey said that the majority of …
Royal Oak, Michigan has agreed to pay a woman who broke her foot after tripping on a residential sidewalk while carrying her infant granddaughter more than $49,000. The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak said terms of the settlement do not …
The city of Gary, Ind., has agreed to pay $170,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that accused former Police Chief Thomas Houston and two aides of beating four people in 2007. An attorney for the city tells The Times of …
A Travis County (Texas) jury recently returned a record-setting verdict for damages against drug manufacturer Actavis Mid-Atlantic LLC, the Texas Attorney General’s office announced. The jury determined that Actavis and co-defendant Actavis Elizabeth LLC should pay Texas and the federal …
Mitchell International, Inc. and LexisNexis have formed a definitive agreement to develop an expanded set of product and service offerings to assist insurance carriers with more effectively managing property and casualty claims. Building upon the foundation of their joint Medical …
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has reached agreements with two companies who the attorney general’s office says violated Missouri’s workers’ compensation law by knowingly failing to report worker injuries to the Division of Workers’ Compensation within the prescribed time frame. …
A federal judge’s approval of a $200 million settlement fund for victims of a Metrolink commuter train crash has been finalized, putting into doubt a Southern California congressman’s attempt to get more money to the victims by raising a federal …