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 …
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 …
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 …
Lawyers for a woman injured in a personal watercraft accident on the Colorado River say she has been awarded $21.7 million by a Los Angeles jury in her lawsuit against the watercrafts’ drivers and a manufacturer. In a release Wednesday, …
A Polk County, Fla., jury has handed down a verdict in a nursing home negligence case totaling more than $1.2 billion in damages. The Lakeland Ledger reports that a jury spent a little more than an hour Monday before deciding …
A federal appeals court has ordered Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Wyoming to pay a Nevada woman $2 million for damages she suffered when a doctor there failed to diagnose that her husband had broken his neck in a vehicle …
A jury has awarded a Radford, Va., family more than $14 million in a lawsuit against Hyundai after a teenager sustained a brain injury in a 2010 car accident. A Pulaski Circuit Court jury made the ruling Friday in the …
A man injured when an Anchorage police officer drove through a red light and into his pickup truck has been awarded $375,000 in a civil lawsuit. The Anchorage jury, however, rejected Melvin Rush’s claim for $2.5 million in punitive damages. …
A Maine man who was told he had only months to live because of an aggressive Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is still alive more than four years later. And a jury has awarded him $200,000 for the doctor’s misdiagnosis. It …
A Sacramento, Calif., judge has upheld a $23 million jury award over the bed sore death of a woman at a Northern California assisted living facility. The Sacramento Bee says the judge on Monday also awarded $4.3 million in legal …