A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the King County Transit Agency. Officials have agreed to pay $1.5 million to family members of a man who was killed when a Seattle Metro bus hit his truck.
A jury has found Bynum Transport, Inc. and driver Robert Bohn to be fully responsible for injuries that a 21 year-old woman sustained in a 2007 car accident. The woman was driving her Dodge Neon when she was struck by Bohn’s 18-wheeler.
The police department of the City of Hawthorne in Los Angeles County recently settled for $1 million with a married couple who were allegedly the victims of systematic police misconduct and what has been described as an attempted cover-up.
Discovery Communications, Inc., the media company behind the Discovery Channel, has filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com alleging patent infringement in connection with a security technology included in Amazon's Kindle e-reader. Discovery seeks damages and an agreement for future royalties.
A judge ruled that a suicide note written by the grandfather of Caylee Anthony will be withheld from the investigation into Caylee’s murder. The judge ruled that the note would be of little evidentiary value and would embarrass the victim’s family.
An Albuquerque jury heard testimonies in the trial of a man charged with the shooting deaths of three high school students in 1999. Witnesses described the shootings, which allegedly involved a drug deal gone wrong between the victim and the defendant’s girlfriend.
A judge granted a three-year restraining order against Britney Spears’ ex-boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, who is accused of disrupting Spears’ life. The order prevents Ghalib from communicating with or getting within 100 yards of Spears and her parents, siblings, and children.
A jury recommended the death penalty for Raymond Lee Oyler, the arsonist responsible for the deaths of five firefighters in 2006. Oyler was convicted on five counts of first-degree murder, 11 counts of arson, and other charges.
A Philadelphia woman claims a police officer sexually assaulted her during a 2007 drug raid under the guise of searching her for weapons. She is seeking $600,000 from the officer and eight others who participated in the raid.
Online chat company Paltalk Holdings is suing Xbox maker Microsoft, Inc. over Xbox Live functions that allegedly infringe on Paltalk's patents. The dispute is linked to various messaging technologies incorporated into the Xbox Live system for online play.
The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a 2008 settlement awarded to a Virginia Beach woman for a brain injury she sustained in a 2003 car accident caused by a tractor-trailer. Although the trucking company maintained that the woman’s condition existed prior to the crash, their appeal was denied.
Two homeowners have been awarded a personal injury settlement of $50,000 for being continually exposed to oil fumes. The man and woman argued that a furnace repair company failed to properly reattach a fuel line and caused over 40 gallons of heating oil to leak beneath their home.
The family of a man who was shot and killed during an arrest by transit police early on New Year's Day has filed a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit seeking $50 million. The death sparked protests in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Maurice Greenberg, former CEO of foundering insurance giant AIG, is suing the company for securities fraud. He claims the company's misrepresentations led him to acquire its stock at an artificially inflated price as part of his executive compensation plan.
In one of the largest personal injury verdicts in Orange County history, A 15 year-old girl was awarded more than $12 million for injuries that she sustained in a November 2003 car accident.
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