A federal judge has upheld Mississippi’s cap of $500,000 on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. The ruling came in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a woman and her unborn baby who died after being denied …
A man whose truck was T-boned in a collision with an Anchorage, Alaska, police officer running a red light testified Wednesday that the crash left him with lasting injuries. Melvin Rush testified Wednesday in the opening of the civil trial …
The parents of a Tennessee State football player who died after collapsing during a practice last fall are suing the university for wrongful death. Wayne Jones III, a 19-year-old walk-on freshman defensive back, died Nov. 7 at after collapsing at …
A central Kentucky family won a $7.24 million verdict after a jury concluded that a company that makes implantable hearing aids knowingly sold a defective device that shocked a 6-year-old girl. The jury in federal court in Louisville awarded $6.25 …
A $90 million verdict against a Charleston nursing home will stand for now after a judge denied the business owner’s request for a new trial. Kanawha County Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. ruled Wednesday that the verdict appropriately punished Heartland …
The Tennessee Supreme Court has reinstated a jury verdict against the management company of a Shelbyville assisted living center in a case involving the death of an 83-year-old woman. Records say Mable Farrar died after her colon ruptured when a …
A jury on Monday said Johnson & Johnson should pay a South Dakota woman $3.35 million for failing to adequately warn her doctor of the potential dangers of a vaginal mesh implant made by the company’s Ethicon Inc subsidiary, and …
The insurance pool for West Virginia county governments asked a judge Thursday to declare that it has no obligation to defend a Jefferson County sheriff who resigned in disgrace and pleaded guilty in the beating of a bank robbery suspect. …
A jury has returned a $17.3 million verdict against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in a lawsuit by an actress who lost most of her belongings in a fire at a West Hollywood apartment building he owns. City News …
West Penn Power Co. has appealed a $109 million verdict for the surviving family of a western Pennsylvania woman who was fatally burned by a downed power line in her backyard as her two young daughters and mother-in-law looked on. …