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$65 Million Verdict in 2007 Motor Vehicle Crash Upheld By Appeals Court

Posted on October 07, 2010
Considered to be one of the largest in Polk County, Florida, a $65 million verdict for a woman injured in a 2007 traffic crash was upheld by the 2nd District Court of Appeals, reports The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida. In 2007, the 19-year-old was driving her Dodge Neon when she was struck by a tractor-trailer at an intersection...

Family Awarded $4.75 Million For Injury Sustained While on a Church-Organized Trip

Posted on October 05, 2010
Idlewild Baptist Church of Tampa, Florida was ordered to pay $4.75 million to a boy and his mother after being found responsible for an accident that injured the 14-year-old while on a church-organized ski trip in 2003. The teenager suffered fractures to his spine resulting in nerve damage to his left leg, atrophied muscles and a permanent limp...

$23 Million Awarded To Family Affected By Pesticide Spray

Posted on September 30, 2010
According to The Republic, a southern Indiana family has been awarded $23.5 million whose two children have suffered severe neurological problems after pesticides were sprayed in their apartment. In 1996 the parents sued the Prestwick Square Apartments and its management company after their children started having seizures caused by pesticides sprayed in their apartment in the mid 1990s...

$7 Million Awarded In Texas Dog Mauling Case

Posted on September 28, 2010
A $7 million verdict was awarded in the civil case in which two dogs killed a 10-year-old boy in June 2009, reports KLTV.com in Texas. The young boy was riding his skateboard to meet a friend when the dogs attacked the boy. The owners were found to be totally liable for the attack by their pit bull mix and their American bulldog, and negligent in the way they maintained their property so the dogs could get to a child...

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Hyundai Settles In Death Of Motorcyclist

Posted on September 23, 2010
The Orange County Register reports Hyundai has made a confidential settlement with a family whose son was killed while riding his motorcycle in 2005. The incident was caused by a Hyundai executive who was driving drunk. The 23-year-old musician and motorcyclist was killed when the executive lost control of his Hyundai SUV after drinking at a company-sponsored dinner, hitting the young man causing him to be thrown from his motorcycle onto the freeway where he was run over by several other vehicles...

Medical Malpractice Filed In Louisiana Following Bypass Surgery Death

Posted on September 21, 2010
An Indiana woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a licensed nurse practitioner and The Louisiana Medical Center and Heart Hospital regarding the death of her husband, reports the Louisiana Record. According to the records, her husband had a successful five vessel bypass grafting in October, 2007...

Oklahoma Mother Files $10 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Prison

Posted on September 16, 2010
The mother of a man from Tecumseh, Oklahoma has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a prison corporation and the state in the death of her son. Her son and his wife were vacationing in New Mexico when they were killed by two prisoners who had escaped from an Arizona prison...

Claim of Defective Seats Brings Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Honda

Posted on September 14, 2010
A lawsuit has been filed in Texas against Honda Motor Co., Ltd. by the parents of a young woman who died in her 2005 Honda Civic in April of this year, reports the Southeast Texas Record. The young woman died when she lost control of her car and skidded off the rain slick road...

Woman Dies After Six-Hour Emergency Room Wait, Parents File $2 Million Lawsuit

Posted on September 09, 2010
A 25-year-old graduate student died while waiting for treatment at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield, Oregon, reports the Associated Press. Her parents have filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit against the PeaceHealth hospital group...

Estate Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Drunk Driver

Posted on September 07, 2010
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the estate of a 79-year-old woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver charged with driving while intoxicated in an accident resulting in her death. The accident happened east of Greensburg, a town close to Pittsburgh...

Oklahoma City to Pay Family in Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted on September 02, 2010
The family of a Putnam City West High School cross-country runner, who drowned while on a training run when he fell into deep water on a flooded portion of a trail just south of the Lake Overholser Dam, has settled with Oklahoma City for $50,000. The family claimed his death could have been prevented if the city had maintained the area better...

$3 Million Awarded in South Carolina Medical Malpractice

Posted on August 31, 2010
An Horry County, South Carolina jury awarded $3 million to a man in the death of his wife caused when she went into septic shock and died about 48 hours after being discharged from the Grand Strand Regional Medical Center emergency room. The lawsuit claimed that the hospital failed to run all the necessary tests and did not take the patient's temperature after an initial check when she arrived in January 2002...

New Hampshire Hospital to Pay $1.25 Million in Medical Malpractice Suit

Posted on August 26, 2010
A Nashua, New Hampshire couple will receive $1.25 million in a settlement with Tufts Medical Center in a medical malpractice suit filed after the man's 2003 kidney transplant went wrong. The patient received a perfect-match donor kidney from his brother, but the kidney failed after only a week...

Woman Awarded $400,000 in Wrongful Death

Posted on August 24, 2010
A jury has awarded $400,000 to an Easton, Massachusetts woman in the wrongful death of her father after he died in a 2005 incident at the Embassy House nursing home in Brockton. The man was severely injured when a nurse did not follow proper procedures when moving him from his bed using the Hoyer Lift...

$6.2 Million Awarded in Florida Malpractice Suit

Posted on August 19, 2010
Shands at the University of Florida was ordered to pay $6.2 million to the family of a professor who died during a CT scan of his lungs in 2002. The 41-year-old man underwent gastric bypass weight loss surgery when he developed breathing difficulties 5 days later...

Family Awarded $235,000 in Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on August 17, 2010
A Michigan family was awarded $235,000 in a lawsuit against a GM car dealership claiming a fire in the rear seat of their Buick LeSabre, started by a faulty battery cable, caused their husband/father to die from cardiac arrest. The 79-year-old man, with a history of heart problems, and the family attempted to put out the fire...

Pizza Hut to Pay $11 Million to Injured Mother and Daughter

Posted on August 12, 2010
An 87-year-old mother and her 62-year-old daughter will split a $10.8 million award to cover their past and future medical expenses after being severely injured in a car accident with a Pizza Hut delivery driver. The daughter suffered permanent brain damage and can no longer take care of herself on a daily basis...

$12.2 Million Awarded After Pedestrian Struck by Car

Posted on August 10, 2010
$12.2 million was awarded on behalf of a San Mateo, California teenager who suffered traumatic brain injury that has left her in a permanent vegetative state after being struck by a driver while in a crosswalk. The accident, which occurred in 2006, was caused by a combination of driver error, a poorly marked crosswalk and pedestrian error...

Woman Awarded $2.7 Million After Her Car Hits Dead Horse

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Seattle Times reports a jury has awarded a 44 year-old woman $2.7 million for the severe injuries she suffered in 2001 when her car struck a dead horse left on the road by a telephone company truck driver. The victim was driving home at night from working at her family-owned gas station when the accident happened...

$82 Million Awarded In Gas Explosion Death

Posted on August 03, 2010
The family of a 27-year-old man killed in a natural gas processing plant explosion has been awarded $82.5 million by a Houston jury, according to Mineral Wells Index.com. The man died of injuries sustained when a hot oil heater he was attempting to light exploded...

$1.9 Million Awarded in Medical Malpractice Suit

Posted on July 29, 2010
A Virginia woman was awarded a $3 million medical malpractice verdict against a local gynecologist after her hysterectomy went terribly wrong. Due to a state law capping such awards, the judge reduced the award to $1.9 million. According to the lawsuit complaint, the patient was badly injured when a hysterectomy performed by Winchester, Virginia physician Katherine Averill in 2007, resulted in her vagina being stitched to her rectum...

Pennsylvania Pedestrian Awarded $910,000 for Accident Injuries

Posted on July 27, 2010
A New Cumberland, Pennsylvania woman who was hit by a pizza delivery driver, while she was crossing the street in a crosswalk, has been awarded $910,000 compensation for her injuries. The 61-year-old who now primarily gets around in a wheelchair, had her right side crushed requiring her to have her head stapled together and to have 3 inches removed from her leg...

$650,000 Awarded in Maryland Car Accident

Posted on July 22, 2010
A Parkton, Maryland woman was awarded $650,000 for injuries she sustained when a car struck her as she was crossing a driveway. The driver, who was texting on her cell phone at the time, left the scene of the accident but was later identified and found...

Pennsylvania School District to Pay for Cheerleader 's Injuries

Posted on July 20, 2010
A settlement of $235,000 has been awarded to the parents of a Uniontown High School cheerleader who was injured when the school bleachers collapsed on her. The girl, who is now 17-years-old, suffers permanent scarring from her injuries which included a broken nose, broken teeth, broken ankles and facial scratches...

$2.45 Million Awarded in Connecticut for Misdiagnosis of Cancer

Posted on July 14, 2010
A $2.45 million judgment was awarded to the estate of a woman who died after being treated for ovarian cancer during a four-year period when she actually had PMP, a rare cancer of the abdomen. The woman succumbed to cancer in January 2009. The suit was brought against Stamford Hospital doctors Iris Wertheim and Isodore Tepler...

$1.2 Million Awarded To Hospital Burn Victim

Posted on July 09, 2010
A 78-year-old woman, who suffered from burns and permanent scars after a medical device was placed too near her supplementary oxygen and later exploded, has been awarded $1.2 million by a Macomb County, Michigan jury. The woman was being treated at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital for a heart attack when she fell out of bed and suffered facial fractures and a deep cut over her eye...

$15 Million Awarded to Parents of California Accident Victims

Posted on June 23, 2010
A jury in Alameda County, California, found Enterprise Rent-A-Car liable for $15 million in the death of two sisters involved in a crash while renting one of their cars. The parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Enterprise when experts found that the accident was caused when their daughter lost the ability to steer the vehicle due to leaking power steering fluid...

Health Canada Issues Strong Warnings Over Chantix/Champix

Posted on June 13, 2010
Side effects of Pfizer's stop-smoking drug, Champix (known as Chantix in the United States) has caused Health Canada to issue strong warnings, reports NewsInferno. The warning was issued following concerns of mood changes, hostility, suicidal behavior, and sometimes fatal skin reactions in some patients taking the popular drug...

$82.5 Million Awarded To Blast Victim's Family

Posted on June 13, 2010
The Star-Telegram reports the family of a 27-year-old man who died of injuries suffered in an explosion at a natural gas processing plant has been awarded $82.5 million by a Harris County (Texas) jury. In May, 2007, the young man was injured when a hot-oil treater exploded and he died at the hospital the next day...

$1.7 Million Awarded For Nerve Damage Following Baby's Birth

Posted on June 07, 2010
The Post-Standard reports a New York state Supreme Court jury has awarded a home-care nurse almost $1.7 million for permanent nerve damage following her baby's birth three years ago. The lawsuit was filed against Community General Hospital after the hospital administered an intramuscular injection in an attempt to stop the woman's vomiting following the birth of her third child...

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