August 20, 2014
A state university has agreed to a settlement with a Baltimore man who was partially blinded after being attacked on campus by a student who later told authorities he killed and cannibalized another man. Morgan State University in Baltimore last …
August 15, 2014
A company that transports the disabled has settled a lawsuit with the family of a woman passenger killed in a Chicago crash. The family of Ella Mae Williams will receive $2.7 million from SCR Medical Transportation Paratransit Services. The 58-year-old …
May 6, 2014
A woman injured by a cannon blast in south-central Nebraska has settled her lawsuit. The Kearney Hub says the Gosper County Board of Commissioners was informed of the settlement last week. The notice had come from the Nebraska Intergovernmental Risk …
April 11, 2014
A Stamford, Conn., police officer denies any wrongdoing in an incident that led the city to agree to pay $230,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who accused him of punching her. Greg Zach said Wednesday he believes he …
March 28, 2014
The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to settle for $1.68 to $2.1 million a lawsuit alleging former priest Daniel McCormack sexually abused a Catholic school student. The lawsuit filed against the archdiocese in 2011 alleged that during the 2000-2001 school …
February 18, 2014
The Diocese of Scranton has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was hurt by a falling tombstone at an eastern Pennsylvania cemetery. A Luzerne County judge on Thursday approved a $225,000 settlement the diocese reached …
February 5, 2014
The family of a Salem, Va., man who died of meningitis has settled a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Roanoke clinic. The Roanoke Times reports that Douglas Wingate’s family agreed to settle the lawsuit for an undisclosed sum. …
January 7, 2014
One of two lawsuits stemming from the electrocution deaths of two boys at a Tennessee resort has been settled. The family of 10-year-old Noah Winstead reached an agreement with German Creek Resort LLC and its owner, James Figuerado of Fort …
December 31, 2013
A woman who said a Parks Department vehicle hit her while she sunbathed on a New York City beach has settled her suit against the city for $300,000. The Staten Island Advance reported the settlement Monday. Aneta Kurkowska says she …
December 27, 2013
The family of the suburban Houston couple killed on Thanksgiving Day last year in a 100-vehicle pileup on a foggy stretch of Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas has settled a lawsuit it had filed. The Beaumont Enterprise reports details of …