A civil lawsuit against Noel Chua, a St Marys, Georgia, physician accused of murder in connection with the death of a 19-year-old man, was recently settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
The captain and cruise line owner of a touring vessel that capsized in Lake George in Upstate New York have been indicted on criminal misdemeanor charges.
Five years after undergoing gastric bypass surgery for chronic morbid obesity, Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis will confront his surgeons in court. His suit alleges that his doctors were negligent and that their carelessness nearly cost him his life.
According to a new report issued today by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), nine U.S. oil refineries are responsible for 1/3 of the nation’s carcinogenic emissions reported by the oil industry.
New York moved to file a lawsuit yesterday against Exxon Mobil and four other companies to force them to clean up a 50-year-old oil spill that spans Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood and contaminates adjacent Newton Creek.
Following the deaths of three men in the December explosion at Falk Corporation, relatives of the victims filed suit on Wednesday alleging that employees of contractor J.M. Brennan prevented an evacuation shortly before the blast.