A Caseyville, Ill., woman has been accused of pocketing more than $4,000 in an adoption scam involving two placement agencies and another woman who was led to believe she would be the baby's adoptive parent.
The federal child-support enforcement program, once hailed as a success story for government social services, took a hard hit from budget changes that become effective in October 2007.
The U.S. Senate fell two votes short of approving a $140 billion trust fund that would have provided compensation to victims of asbestos-related diseases.
New Orleans, La. -- Jurors began deliberations Friday in the retrial of the nation's first federal Vioxx court case, which previously resulted in a hung jury.
A $300,000 settlement has been reached between the city of Anisonia, Conn. and the family of James Law, who was accidentally killed while in police custody.
The explosion and fire at the St. Louis Praxair bottled gas depot last summer has been tied to the death of an asthmatic woman who lived nearby the plant.
A jury in Cooperstown, New York ordered obstetrician Khalid Parwez to pay $2.5 million to a former patient this Wednesday, finding Parwez acted negligently during a routine gynecological procedure.
A New York law firm and three investment banks will each pay a portion of a $180 million settlement to resolve securities fraud claims against them arising from the bankruptcy of Boston Chicken.
Opening statements were heard this week in the case of a Hawaii surgeon being sued for inserting the broken shaft of a screwdriver in a patient's spine during back surgery.
In one of Rhode Island's largest medical malpractice verdicts since the 90's, a jury has ordered Women & Infants Hospital in Providence to pay $2.5 million to a Pawtucket couple whose infant died just minutes after birth.
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