The North Carolina Court of Appeals has waded into a legal tussle over the wrongful death of a Jack Russell terrier. Nancy and Herb Shera of Wilmington sued North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in 2009, seeking more …
The children of a 95-year-old Iowa woman killed with three friends while celebrating her birthday are suing a truck driver blamed for causing the accident. The estate of Margaret Bannister of West Des Moines filed the wrongful death lawsuit Monday …
A McLouth woman is suing a Lawrence, Kansas, residential home for the disabled over her son’s death in a fall. Josephine VanDruff claims in the lawsuit that an employee of Community Living Opportunity did not follow accepted care standards while …
A Massachusetts judge has upheld a $20 million jury award to the family of a Colorado woman who died after a Toys ‘R Us inflatable pool slide partially collapsed. In October, a jury ordered Toys ‘R Us to pay the …
Court papers filed for the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit say a woman killed in a boating accident put herself in harm’s way when she chose to swim in open water. Esther Fujimoto was killed Aug. 21 after being …
Jeremy Griffin was returning from his snowplowing route on Feb. 13, 2011, when he looked away from the road for a “split second” and slammed his snowplow into a 19-year-old West Olive man standing on the side of the highway. …
The mother of late boxer Arturo Gatti’s daughter can’t sue his widow for wrongful death in New Jersey, a judge ruled in dismissing the lawsuit Friday. Erika Rivera, a central New Jersey resident, filed the lawsuit last fall on behalf …
Attorneys for late boxer Arturo Gatti’s widow say a lawsuit filed by the mother of Gatti’s daughter doesn’t belong in New Jersey. Erika Rivera filed a wrongful death suit last fall against Gatti widow Amanda Rodrigues charging she was responsible …
The estate of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry is suing his fiance, accusing her of negligence in his death in Charlotte. The Charlotte Observer reports that a wrongful death lawsuit filed this month in a North Carolina Superior Court …
The mother of a woman killed in a Chicago high-rise apartment fire has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the companies that manages the building. The Chicago Sun-Times reports JoAnn McCoy claims her 32-year-old daughter, Shantel, would be alive had …