The estate of a Lexington homicide victim is suing the city police, claiming wrongful death. Umi Southworth died a year ago and authorities charged her husband with murder. In a lawsuit filed Friday by Fayette County Public Administrator Dennis A. …
A state district judge says sugar cane farmers cannot get punitive damages from a Texas-based well operator and a Louisiana oilfield service company in connection with a wild well that spewed oil and natural gas in Assumption Parish last year. …
A state appeals court has ruled that a Contra Costa County man can recover medical expenses from whoever shot his cat with a pellet gun and seek punitive damages if the person did it deliberately. The San Francisco Chronicle reports …
A black deputy fire chief in St. Louis has won $350,000 in a racial discrimination lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis jury Friday awarded Charles Coyle $300,000 for actual damages in the lawsuit in which Coyle …
Union Carbide Corp. has asked a Mississippi judge to throw out a $322 million asbestos verdict and, at the same time, remove himself from presiding over the case any longer. Attorneys for Union Carbide said Circuit Judge Eddie H. Bowen …
A southwest Missouri jury has awarded a total of $1.95 million to 12 plaintiffs who claimed a factory hog farm had ruined their way of life. The Barton County jury announced its verdict Saturday afternoon following a two-week trial. Iowa-based …
A jury has awarded $48 million to relatives of five people killed when a skydiving plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a rural Missouri airport in 2006. The jury in Union, Mo., on Thursday sided against London-based Doncasters Inc., ordering …
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon spoke out Monday against legislation that would make it harder for employees to prove they were fired because of discrimination. In a statement, the governor condemned a measure given final approval earlier this month by the …
A 19-year-old woman who was severely injured when a wrong-way drunken driver slammed into the ambulance she was driving on Interstate 25 near Santa Fe last December has filed a lawsuit in state district court. Vanessa Carrillo’s lawsuit names the …
A federal judge in Mississippi has transferred a wrongful death and defective products lawsuit against Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. to Louisiana. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers issued the order Monday. Biggers said …