A vacation at a swanky Miami hotel turned into a nightmare for a U.S. woman when she was beaten up by prostitutes who mistook her as competition, the woman and her husband claim in a federal lawsuit. Anna Burgese, 34, …
The owner of the stricken Carnival Triumph cruise ship was hit by a lawsuit seeking class action status for stranding more than 3,000 passengers for five days on a ship without electricity or adequate sanitation. Carnival Corp. should be held …
An Italian court has convicted two European men of negligence in hundreds of asbestos-related deaths and sentenced each of them to 16 years in prison. The Italian news agency LaPresse says Monday’s verdict followed a 2-year-long trial of Jean-Louise de …
The former president of a major Japanese railway has been found not guilty of negligence in a crash that killed 107 people in 2005 and raised concerns over pressures to sacrifice safety for punctuality. Masao Yamazaki resigned as president of …
The parents of an 11-year-old girl who was killed on a family outing by a big block of ice is suing the National Forest Service, saying it failed to adequately warn visitors about dangerous snow formations at the Big Four …
Ernst & Young LLP has been sued for $900 million by the liquidators of a fund that once funneled money to the now-imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of M-Invest Ltd, accused Ernst & Young of negligence, …
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a boy more than 100 times, and threatened to harm his family to keep him quiet, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a new accuser who is not part …
Two Vermont State Police troopers who went to the wrong house when asked the check on the welfare of an elderly woman can be sued over her death from hypothermia, the state Supreme Court has ruled. Troopers Travis Valcourt and …
The Reno City Council approved a $58,000 settlement on Wednesday with a woman who persuaded a federal jury that a city police officer coerced her to strip naked in his patrol car when she was a teenager more than five …
A jury has ruled that a Maine ski resort was not responsible for injuries suffered by a Bethel man who fell off a chairlift on a windy day. The Oxford County Superior Court jury ruled Monday that injuries suffered at …