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Eastern Nebraska city agrees to pay woman injured in police car crash $70,000
The eastern Nebraska city of Papillion has agreed to pay $70,000 in a settlement with a woman injured when a speeding police car slammed into her vehicle in 2008. Alicia Johnston was a 28-year-old...
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More Breezy Point lawsuits target LIPA, National Grid
One hundred and twenty more residents of Breezy Point have filed suit against LIPA and National Grid, alleging the companies failure to turn off power to the area during superstorm Sandy led to fires...
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Vermont woman wins $43 million jury verdict
A 51-year-old Vermont woman has been awarded $43.1 million in a jury verdict against the manufacturer of a car seat that allegedly collapsed during a 2007 car accident, leaving her a paraplegic. It is...
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Insurer Dodges $180K Corpse Cleanup Costs
An insurer is not liable for the $180,000 it cost a landlord to clean up the remains of a corpse found collapsed over a tenants toilet, with fluids seeping into the apartment below, a federal judge...
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Insurance company refuses to pay, claims building owner may have played role...
A Wisconsin-based insurance company is refusing to cover a downtown Byron building ravaged by fire, claiming the buildings owner may have been involved with starting the blaze, according to recently...
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Judge awards $9.6 million in wrongful death suit
A North Dakota judge has awarded $9.6 million to the family of a Fargo dentist who was killed in a murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by the victims father-in-law in an attempt to gain custody of his...
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Maryland Court Rules Asbestos Firms Not Responsible for Family Exposure
An asbestos company is not liable for an illness suffered by a woman who became exposed to the hazardous material while doing her grandfathers laundry in the 1960s, Marylands highest court ruled...
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SD Court Denies Insurance For Slain Woman’s Estate
The South Dakota Supreme Court says a Sioux Falls company does not have to pay workers compensation insurance benefits to the estate of an employee who was shot and killed by her estranged husband in...
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World Trade Center owners seek billions from airlines
A federal judge began listening to testimony Monday that will help him decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center buildings destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks can pursue billions of dollars in...
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83 Asiana plane crash survivors to sue Boeing, airline
A Chicago law firm says it has taken steps to sue aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co. on behalf of 83 people who were aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed in San Francisco earlier this...
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Tanker-bridge dispute scheduled for trial in N.H.
A dispute over who should pay for the $2.4 million in damage to a bridge connecting New Hampshire and Maine has been scheduled for trial in federal court in October 2014. The 473-foot oil tanker MV...
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California Fraudster forced to give up Yoda in plea deal
The force is no longer with Eric Hodgson, a California man who gave up a collection of Star Wars memorabilia worth more than $10,000 in a plea deal to charges that he defrauded a state agency out of...
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N.J. Court Rejects Insurer’s Argument, Rules Missing Man Not Liable for Cop’s...
A New Jersey state appellate court has ruled that a man who went missing in northern New Jersey is not financially responsible for the injuries suffered by a police officer who was hurt while trying to...
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U.S. court restores consumers’ suit airing Whirlpool washers’ laundry
A federal appeals court reinstated a class action lawsuit against Whirlpool Corp (WHR.N) on Thursday in a victory for consumers whose group lawsuit had been wiped out by the U.S. Supreme Court.The...
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Florida Auto Policy Covers Modified Golf Cart: Court
A Florida appeals court has ruled that an automobile insurer must cover a Florida man for injuries from a collision in a golf cart that had been modified to exceed a speed of 20 miles per hour. The...
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Woman’s Rape on the Job May Leave City Liable
An Ohio woman can sue the city of North Ridgeville for hiring a man who later raped her on the job, the state Supreme Court ruled. Lisa Vacha had been working at the citys French Creek Wastewater...
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Kansas Court Remands Case of Gun Shop Liability
Firearms dealers must use the highest degree of care in preventing the sale of guns to a felon, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled. The decision comes in the appeal of a mother who filed a negligence...
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Boy Scouts Sues Insurers to Fund Abuse Settlement
The Boy Scouts of America sued two insurance companies to try to recoup the costs of a settlement with two former Scouts who were sexually abused. BSA, which is based in Dallas, said in its lawsuit...
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Federal Jury Convicts Former Texas Insurance Agent in Fraud Case
A former Denton County, Texas, insurance agent has been convicted in an insurance fraud scheme that targeted elderly individuals, U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana of the Northern District of Texas...
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Promise to take care of everything allows late claim to proceed
In New Mexico, if a worker entitled to workers compensation fails to file a claim within the limitation period because the conduct of the employer reasonably led her to believe compensation would be...
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