December 20, 2011
An Upper Peninsula quarry is not liable for brain damage and other injuries suffered by a woman who was riding in a popular bike event when she lost control on a rough road, the Michigan Supreme Court said, reversing a …
November 30, 2011
The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the widow and family of a Florida tabloid photo editor killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks. A court filing obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press shows that Maureen Stevens will …
November 9, 2011
Jurors found a New Jersey pub was not negligent in the death of a patron who was struck and killed while walking on the Garden State Parkway. The jury decided not to award money to the parents of Robert Barbiero …
October 28, 2011
The family of a 91-year-old woman who died a week and a half after falling on a train station platform sued Amtrak on Wednesday, saying she was knocked to the ground by the force of a passing Acela Express train. …
October 14, 2011
The widow of an Iraq war veteran from Tennessee claims in a lawsuit that the Veterans Affairs was negligent in failing to diagnose and treat his post-traumatic stress disorder before he committed suicide in 2008. The suit filed Tuesday in …
October 7, 2011
State officials have agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to settle two medical malpractice lawsuits stemming from treatments at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2004. The State Appeals Board on Monday approved a $300,000 settlement in the case of …
September 2, 2011
Furnas County has been ordered to pay more than $407,000 to a man injured in a car accident. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp awarded nearly $679,000 to Juston Pohl. But the judge reduced …
September 2, 2011
A Hamilton family has been awarded a $7 million judgment by a Suffolk Superior Court jury that determined a doctor and a nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston were negligent in the death of their premature daughter. …
August 29, 2011
A West Virginia jury has awarded $7 million in damages to the family of a worker killed in a 2007 explosion at an American Electric Power plant in Ohio. A Marshall County jury found AEP and subsidiary Ohio Power Co. …
August 24, 2011
The Nebraska Supreme Court will consider whether a family whose two young girls were seriously injured in a sledding accident should lose the nearly $2.5 million they were awarded – or get even more money to cover the medical costs …