The family of one of two Connecticut teenagers killed when a Milford police cruiser smashed into their car at 94 mph is suing the officer and the city. A lawyer for the family of Ashlie Krakowski of Orange filed the …
The father of a 36-year-old New Mexico man who died in the federal prison in Pekin says he wasn’t surprised the Department of Justice denied a wrongful death and personal injury claim filed by the family. Juan Montoya of Albuquerque, …
A southern Indiana county is suing three companies, accusing them of negligence in a fire that heavily damaged its historic courthouse. JeffersonCounty’s lawsuit contends that a worker for one of the companies was welding copper downspouts when nearby combustibles ignited …
A woman whose 8-year-old son drowned in a Logan County pool is suing the state Division of Natural Resources. The Charleston Gazette reports Cynthia Fite filed the lawsuit Monday in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Her son, Austin Cliff Runyon, was …
A Pinellas County, Florida judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, in a matter stemming from his son’s 2007 car crash that left passenger, Nick Graziano, with permanent brain damage. Though umbrella coverage was …
Doctors whose negligence causes patient death or disfigurement wouldn’t be protected by the same liability limits placed on other malpractice lawsuits, the state House decided Wednesday. The House voted 91-27 to approve a package aimed at limiting what doctors who …
A Newport County Superior Court jury yesterday found the state of Rhode Island is not liable in the personal injury case of a man who became a quadriplegic after he fell from Newport’s famed Cliff Walk while on his honeymoon. …
A Wyoming jury has ruled that a youth baseball league is not responsible for the death of a woman at a Casper ball field in 2008. The jury concluded Casper Youth Baseball did not behave negligently in connection with the …
A judge says the rape of a student on the University of Mary Washington’s campus is a tragic case but the school isn’t liable for criminal acts on its property. The Free Lance-Star reports that Fredericksburg Circuit Court Judge Gordon …
A Maine couple has lost its lawsuit against Dragon Cement claiming the company’s cement plant made their nearby home unsellable. In their lawsuit, Stephen and Kathy Darney of Thomaston claimed Dragon caused a nuisance and was negligent for the dust …