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$3.4M Jury Verdict in Texas Case Against Medical Malpractice Insurer

A doctor was awarded $3.4 million after jurors found that a Texas-based medical malpractice insurer committed unfair and deceptive practices when it wrongly denied insurance coverage after the doctor was sued by a former patient. In the verdict, issued Aug. …

Montana Jury Awards $2M in Injury Lawsuit Against Railroad

A jury has awarded a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway employee $2 million in a lawsuit over a 2001 back injury that required surgery and causes chronic pain. The jury returned the verdict Friday after a trial before District Judge …

West Virginia Jury Says AEP Negligent in Fatal 2007 Blast

A West Virginia jury has awarded $7 million in damages to the family of a worker killed in a 2007 explosion at an American Electric Power plant in Ohio. A Marshall County jury found AEP and subsidiary Ohio Power Co. …

Alabama Jury Awards Nearly $1 Million in Body Mix-Up

A Jefferson County jury has found a Bessemer funeral home and two of its employees negligent in the switching of identities of two women prior to family viewings in 2009 and awarded the families of the two women nearly $1 …

Ohio Jury Rules for Ford in Case of Burned Officer

A jury in Ohio has ruled in favor of Ford Motor Co. in the lawsuit of a former patrol officer severely burned in a crash in one of the automaker’s police cruisers. The Vindicator of Youngstown reports the Mahoning County …

Federal Jury Awards Fired Tenn. City Worker $450,000

A federal court jury has awarded a former Lexington city utility employee nearly a half-million dollars in his age discrimination lawsuit. The decision came Monday in the 2009 suit filed by Anthony Brunt, who The Jackson Sun reported it was …

North Carolina Family Awarded $10M in Taser Lawsuit

A federal jury awarded $10 million this week to the family of a North Carolina teenager who died after a police officer shocked him with a Taser at the grocery store where he worked, according to court documents. The jury …

Maryland Jury Awards $1.5M in Exxon Mobil Suit

A jury in Maryland awarded plaintiffs suing Exxon Mobil more than $1.5 billion for a 2006 leak at a gasoline station, the Baltimore Sun reported Friday. The Sun, quoting a source who had viewed the verdict, said the jury had …

Oklahoma Jury Awards $6.5M to Family of Slain Inmate

A Comanche County jury has awarded $6.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died at a Lawton prison. Jurors concluded that GEO Group employees failed to protect Ronald Sites while he was being held at the …

Missouri Jury Rules Against Farmer in Odor Lawsuit

A DeKalb County jury has ruled against a northwest Missouri farmer who claimed odor from an industrial hog farm had damaged his property. The jury ruled Wednesday in favor of Premium Standard Farms. Vernon Hanes, a farmer in northwest Missouri, …