The Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in the wrongful death suit brought by the parents of two Virginia Tech students slain during the 2007 campus massacre. According the docket posted Tuesday, the full court is scheduled to …
Toyota Motor Corp. knew of the danger of stuck pedals and failed to install a brake-override system in the 2006 Camry of a woman who died in a crash, a lawyer told jurors in the first fatal sudden-acceleration case to …
Relatives of three of the 29 men killed in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster say Alpha Natural Resources has yet to pay them each $1.5 million as promised under a settlement agreement with the federal government. A lawsuit in …
Currently an estimated $5 billion industry, structured settlements were once considered too risky because tax implications for insurers and claimants hadn’t been ironed out. According to Peter Arnold, deputy director of the National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA) based in …
Two wrongful-death lawsuits over the suicide of Pro Bowler Junior Seau have been consolidated with NFL concussion litigation in Philadelphia. A key hearing in the NFL case is set for next week, when lawyers for thousands of former players will …
A Virginia driver who crashed into a tent filled with sleeping women at a West Virginia music festival last summer wants to settle three wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits. Documents filed in U.S. District Court last week show Clay …
The widows of two U.S. Border Patrol agents killed in a train accident near Gila Bend have sued the railroad and the irrigation district that owns the land crossed by the tracks. The lawsuit filed in Pima County Superior Court …
The Washington-area Metro transit agency has settled seven of nine lawsuits by families of people killed in a 2009 train crash. Metro also told a judge it is admitting legal responsibility for the deadliest accident in the system’s history. Nine …
Wrongful death lawsuits have been filed in Nevada state court against a Colombian couple convicted of causing a 42-year-old Las Vegas woman’s death in a botched buttocks enhancement procedure in the back room of a tile store. A lawsuit filed …