The city of Chicago will pay $55,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who says a police officer shocked her with a stun gun when she was eight months pregnant. Tiffany Rent sued the city and the police, …
New Hanover County has reached a settlement with the family of a pallbearer who was zapped with a stun gun as he helped load his father’s coffin into a hearse. The StarNews of Wilmington, N.C., reports the incident happened five …
A mother of three who had to give up her nursing career after being disabled in a bicycle accident on a trail on the University of Iowa’s Oakdale campus will receive a $1.2 million settlement from the city of Coralville, …
California’s Sacramento Kings have settled a lawsuit over an exercise ball the team says exploded and injured a player. The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday the settlement was reached with Italian manufacturer Ledraplastic. Roger Dreyer, the attorney who represented the NBA …
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services has agreed to pay $9,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after a temporary worker picked up the wrong girl from a central Oklahoma elementary school more than six years ago. The Oklahoman reported Saturday …
Iowa officials have approved its part of $1.1 million settlement to the family of a Nebraska boy who died in a boating accident in 2010. The Sioux City Journal says the payment will settle a federal lawsuit filed after the …
A New Jersey couple who each lost a leg when their motorcycle was struck by a teenager who was driving and texting have settled their lawsuit against him for $500,000, their lawyer says. The settlement amount for David and Linda …
Acadian Ambulance Service owes $117 million to a woman left paralyzed and brain-damaged when the ambulance she was in crashed into a sugar-cane truck on the way to a hospital in December 2010, an Iberville Parish jury has found. Company …
Tom and Lauren Hanley’s wedding day turned tragic two years ago when a traffic accident killed a groomsman and injured others in their bridal party. The Indianapolis couple is now using some of their settlement in a lawsuit from the …
The parent company of a Charleston, S.C., restaurant will pay $1.1 million to the family of a man killed in a drunken driving crash that authorities say was caused by one of the restaurant’s employees. Investigators said 32-year-old Adam Burnell …