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Jury Awards $39M in Fatal Wisconsin Garage Panel Fall

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 …

Georgia Jury Awards $6.7 Million in Malpractice Case

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 …

Oregon Woman Wins False Imprisonment Case

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 …

Palm Beach Jury Awards $10M for Faulty Tire

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 …

Alabama Widow Awarded $850,000 in Husband’s Death

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 …

Illinois Jury Gives $1M to Man Claiming False Arrest

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 …

Radiation Treatment Lawsuit Settled for $15M

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 …

Louisiana Man Injured by School Bus Wins $51000

The Terrebonne Parish School Board must pay more than $51,000 to a man who was injured when a school bus rear-ended a Sears van he was driving, a Louisiana district judge has ruled. Although police reported minor injuries at the …

$8.5M to Illinois Mom of Teen Shot in Back by Officer

A Cook County jury has awarded $8.5 million in damages to the mother of an 18-year-old shot in the back and killed by a Chicago, Ill., police officer. Aaron Harrison’s death in 2007 helped focus public scrutiny on allegations of …

Jury Awards $225K Over Fatal Indiana Ambulance Crash

A jury has ruled that a southern Indiana fire department must pay $225,000 to the estate of a 75-year-old woman killed when an ambulance hit her car in 2009. The Clark County jury reached the verdict after a trial last …