October 31, 2011
A midlevel New York court says the township that owns and operates a dam shares liability with its contractors for its 2005 collapse. A Washington County jury last year found a construction company and design firm mostly at fault for …
October 28, 2011
The family of a Boston, Mass., pizza delivery man has filed a $15 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Domino’s Pizza Inc. and Deutsche Bank after he was lured to a vacant home owned by the bank, then robbed …
October 26, 2011
A Christian sisterhood that spent $15 million to renovate their Nebraska monastery says the contractor they hired overcharged them and performed shoddy ventilation work that spawned a mold outbreak. Missionary Benedictine Sisters Inc. in Norfolk filed a lawsuit in federal …
October 14, 2011
An attorney for property owners seeking damages from a huge coal ash spill asked a judge to hold the Tennessee Valley Authority liable, disagreeing Wednesday with an attorney for the nation’s largest public utility who said the 2008 disaster wasn’t …
October 12, 2011
The father of a 20-year-old South Carolina woman crushed under a truck as she slept in a tent at the All Good Music Festival is suing the event producers, hosts, traffic directors and security providers for negligence. Nicole Miller died …
October 11, 2011
The wife of a Washington sanitation worker fatally shot last year at a Department of Public Works lot a has sued the city. Larry Hutchins of Suitland, Md., was killed Oct. 13 in a shooting that also wounded another worker. …
October 11, 2011
Two elderly people are dead and two others remain missing after a fire in a provincial Russian home for seniors. The fire broke out early Sunday in the facility with 13 residents in the village of Tikhon in the Kostroma …
October 6, 2011
A Southern California jury has awarded $48 million to a man who got a severe skin disorder and mouth blood blisters after taking the pain reliever Motrin. Christopher Trejo filed the negligence suit against McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of …
September 30, 2011
A woman who broke her skull and collarbone when a member of the band Fishbone dived from a Philadelphia stage will soon have her day in court. A federal judge has upheld a negligence lawsuit filed by Kimberly Myers. The …
September 28, 2011
A 41-year-old Hosston man was booked with attempted arson after allegedly shooting a Roman candle into a young pine plantation, state Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said. Kevin Lee Dumas is free on $50,275 bond, according to the Caddo …