OLATHE, Kan. -- A Missouri city has agreed to pay $2.98 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a Kansas teenager injured when a police car struck the vehicle in which she was a passenger.
A Belmont, Massachusetts man was awarded $280,000 last Thursday after a jury found two doctors negligent for leaving a foot long surgical instrument in his abdomen.
The New York State Appeals Court affirmed the first-ever jury finding that asbestos-containing welding rods, which were sold in the early 1980s, had caused lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Both the Elidel cream and the Protopic ointment will receive the strong cautionary labeling after reports of nearly 80 cases of cancer, including lymphoma and skin cancer, in patients taking the drugs.
Available via the Internet and marketed under such names as Emagrece Sim and the Brazilian Diet Pill, the pills contain habit-forming ingredients similar to those in Prozac and Librium.
The family of a man who lapsed into a coma and died after being held in a Franklin County, Illinois jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against jail officials and a jailhouse physician.
A senior securities broker who bought stock for clients without their permission was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution and serve 18 months in prison for his crime.
A group of current and former Marlboro smokers filed a class-action suit against Philip Morris USA, asking the cigarette manufacturer to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages of lung cancer.
Former San Jose State University cheerleader, Rechelle Sneath, 20, is planning to file a lawsuit against SJSU and its former cheerleading coach for the catastrophic injury that has left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Kenneth Marsh, of San Diego, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years for the death of toddler, Phillip Buell, has received $756,900 in compensation for his prison time and is seeking an additional $50 million.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has agreed to a $500,000 settlement to resolve a qui tam lawsuit filed by a former construction worker who reported consulting firms over charged the agency.
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