A federal jury in Charleston, S.C., has awarded the family of the former mayor of Cottageville $97 million for his shooting death. Multiple media outlets reported the jury reached the decision Wednesday in the negligence and wrongful death suit filed …
Florida’s agriculture department must pay Orlando area homeowners more than $20 million in compensation for cutting down healthy citrus trees during an effort to eradicate citrus canker. An Orange County jury on Monday determined that about 60,000 citrus trees cut …
A jury in Portland, Ore., has awarded more than $562,000 to a man who said in his lawsuit that city police beat and used a stun gun on him without provocation after stopping him for investigation of drunken driving. The …
A jury says a Connecticut construction company should pay a western Pennsylvania woman $15.8 million for injuries she suffered in a work zone crash a day before her daughter’s wedding five years ago. A spokeswoman for Lane Construction Corp. of …
New Mexico jurors have awarded a pacemaker patient more than $67 million in damages in a lawsuit. The Albuquerque Journal reported a 3rd Judicial District Court jury in Las Cruces on Monday found German pacemaker manufacturer Biotronik negligent in the …
A Spartanburg, S.C., woman’s family has been awarded $2 million in damages for her death five years ago. A jury this week found in favor of the family of Janice G. Easler, the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported. The family sued …
A Walker County, Ala., jury has awarded a Carbon Hill woman millions of dollars in a medical malpractice suit against a doctor who mistook symptoms that led to her husband’s heart attack for a stomach illness. Al.com reported Wednesday the …
A jury has awarded $2.3 million to a Rockland County, N.Y., man who said the head of Nyack Hospital’s orthopedic surgery left a serious infection untreated. The Journal News says the jury found Dr. Jason Fond negligent in his treatment …
A Middlesex County jury has awarded $14 million to the family of a 90-year-old nursing home resident who died in 2008 after being taken to a Massachusetts hospital suffering from a variety of untreated ailments. Genevieve Calandro was taken to …
A West Virginia jury has awarded $136,030 to a former Parkersburg South High School football player and his mother in a lawsuit over a locker room fight. The lawsuit alleged that Parkersburg South assistant football coach Dwain Sponseller encouraged a …