A divided Arizona Supreme Court upheld a state law that limits liability to bars and restaurants for damages caused by intoxicated patrons, overturning a jury verdict that would have awarded $800,000 to the family of a man who was killed …
Wanted in South Carolina: $1 million in liquor liability coverage at an affordable premium to prevent closure of establishment. That’s the type of advertisement one can imagine bars and bistros across the Palmetto State running this fall, as the full …
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down three opinions that resolve two questions about insurance law. One decision will probably disappoint auto insurers; the other will please carriers in the liquor liability line. In two separate decisions, the …
A Miami-Dade jury has returned one of the largest verdicts ever in an automobile accident, awarding $95 million in damages plus attorneys’ fees to a South Florida family whose daughter was killed and whose son was catastrophically injured by a …
It’s too soon to discuss whether new safety rules will be established after a man accused of driving drunk plowed into a Mardi Gras parade crowd, a New Orleans, La., police spokesman said Monday. “It’s probably a little premature,” Michael …
Drunken drivers in Nebraska who refuse to take blood tests could be in for harsher punishments, including up to a year in jail and fines of up to $1,000. Refusing to take a breathalyzer or blood test had been a …
Galveston, Texas, police have arrested a man who they say crashed into two police cars while driving drunk. KHOU-TV reports 66-year-old Raymond Oakley nearly struck a Galveston police officer who was working at the scene of an earlier accident. Chief …
An off-duty firefighter drunkenly drove the wrong way down a one-way suburban avenue, slammed into another car and killed a woman delivering newspapers early Monday, authorities said. White Plains firefighter Erik Refvik was arrested on criminally negligent homicide and driving …
The attorney for a Texas father accused of fatally shooting a drunken driver who caused an accident that killed his two sons argued with investigators Monday that none of the evidence they have presented at trial directly links his client …
Police in the southwest Washington city of Kelso say an intoxicated driver caused at least $18,000 damage in the drive-thru lane at a Jack in the Box restaurant, hitting shrubs and sideswiping a menu board. According to The Daily News …