A jury has recently awarded an additional $18 million to a woman whose botched surgery at a Wenatchee, Wash., hospital left her unable to speak. The Wenatchee World reports that Becky S. Anderson was having polyps removed from her vocal …
A Sacramento Countym Calif., jury has awarded nearly $32 million to a woman who was paralyzed and suffered brain damage in a 2010 traffic collision. The Sacramento Bee reports Saturday that jurors found Silva Trucking must pay 56-year-old Debra Hackett …
A Laclede County jury has ordered a Missouri company to pay $28 million to a worker who claimed his lungs were damaged at a compressor plant in south-central Missouri. In the lawsuit, Philip Berger, 56, claimed he developed inflammation of …
A jury Thursday found manufacturer Advance Cast Stone mainly responsible for the collapse of a Milwaukee parking garage panel that killed a teenager and injured two others in 2010 and awarded $39 million in damages. The civil jury also found …
A jury in Columbus, Ga., has awarded $6.7 million in a 10-year legal battle involving an Alabama man who said his intestine was punctured during a hernia operation. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports that the jury on Wednesday awarded the money …
Jurors awarded more than $101,000 to a Happy Valley, Ore., woman who was a victim of identity theft and wrongly arrested by Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies. The Oregonian reports jurors deliberated less than two hours before reaching a verdict upholding …
A Palm Beach County jury has ordered a tire maker to pay almost $10 million to a Florida woman critically injured in a 2009 accident. The Palm Beach Post reported Friday that the jury found Continental Tire responsible for Tracey …
A jury in eastern Alabama has awarded a widow $850,000 after her husband was given three times his normal dosage of medication and died Christmas Day. AL.com reported Wednesday that a jury spent hours deliberating before delivering the verdict against …
A jury awarded $1 million to a Chicago, Ill., man who spent a year in jail before he was found him not guilty of assaulting a police officer. John Collins sued the city of Chicago for bringing an aggravated battery …
The family of a lung cancer patient who suffered injuries after he was exposed to overdoses of radiation has settled a lawsuit for $15 million in compensation. Zacarias Chichioco Jr. received about 2.5 times the appropriate amount of radiation he …