April 10, 2014
Relatives of a University of Alabama student who drowned after falling from the Bama Belle riverboat during a 2012 sorority party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The Tuscaloosa News reports that Tre’ Jones family is seeking at least $10 …
March 25, 2014
The family of Bryan Lee Glenn is asking a federal appeals court to let them pursue a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges a Biloxi, Miss., casino kept serving drinks to the man while he was drunk. Glenn, 30, collapsed in …
March 24, 2014
The family of a 58-year-old man killed in 2013 when a tent collapsed at a St. Louis, Mo., bar has reached a $548,000 settlement. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Alfred Goodman suffered fatal head and neck injuries when wind …
March 19, 2014
Six days after General Motors Co. recalled almost 800,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5s for a defect that could cause surprise engine shutdowns, lawyer Lance Cooper, a solo practitioner in Georgia, sent government regulators a letter: There are more faulty …
March 18, 2014
The widow of an attorney who was shot dead during a carjacking at an upscale New Jersey mall is suing the mall owners and a first aid squad. Jamie Schare Friedland filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Newark this week …
February 27, 2014
The parents of a Fargo, N.D., man who died after an apartment fire say the landlord is to blame for failing to maintain a smoke detector. Dwayne and Donna Peyton are seeking at least $100,000 in their wrongful death lawsuit …
February 18, 2014
The husband of Jenni Rivera is suing the owners of the plane that crashed in northern Mexico in December 2012, killing the Mexican-American pop star and six others. City News Service says former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Esteban Loaiza filed …
February 10, 2014
The state of Nebraska has agreed to pay $575,000 to settle a wrongful death claim filed by the family of a man killed in a 2012 car crash. Lexington radio station KRVN reports the settlement involving the estate of Ruben …
February 6, 2014
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a New York teenager swept out to sea during a Hawaii hiking and kayaking tour has been settled. Michael Madoff, the father of 15-year-old Tyler Madoff, said Tuesday he hopes tours …
February 5, 2014
The family of a Salem, Va., man who died of meningitis has settled a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against a Roanoke clinic. The Roanoke Times reports that Douglas Wingate’s family agreed to settle the lawsuit for an undisclosed sum. …