A 76-year-old Wisconsin man who pleaded no contest to striking a man with his car and then driving away will serve 150 days of house arrest and three years’ probation, and pay the victim’s family $1.2 million.
A Brooklyn Supreme Court jury has awarded $13 million to a NYC Transit authority employee for injuries he suffered after falling 30 feet from elevated subway tracks. As a result of the accident, the employee sustained brain damage and massive injuries to his face, arms, and pelvis.
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.
A California doctor paralyzed in a 2002 car crash he claims was caused by a poorly timed traffic signal has been awarded the first part of what is expected to be an $8.85 million settlement.
A high court judge in London has awarded three million in damages to a young boy who suffered brain damage after developing a severe case of jaundice at birth.
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