Recent lawsuit and settlement news.
Since being launched in early 2011, the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s online product safety information database, SaferProducts.gov, reports that more than 130 complaints concerning toning shoes, including Skechers Shape-ups, have been filed on the database. Consumers have reported torn ligaments, strained muscles, broken bone injuries, chronic tendinitis, and chronic pain Read more »
After three days of testimony, U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Miller ruled that the federal government should pay $17.8 million in damages to the surviving family members of four individuals who were tragically killed in a Marine Corps jet crash. Dong Yun Yoon, a retail store manager, tragically lost his Read more »
After a two-and-half week trial, a Philadelphia jury awarded an Akron, Ohio doctor and his fiancé $11.35 million in damages for injuries they sustained in a devastating plane crash outside Atlanta. The airplane accident verdict, which was one of the largest in Ohio, was against Winner Aviation, a Pennsylvania-based company Read more »
TEXAS – An 89-year-old Corpus Christi woman, Bennie Garcia, was awarded a $6.4 million verdict for damages relating to a hip fracture injury she sustained after a sliding glass door slammed into her while walking through a building at Christus Spohn Hospital South. In her lawsuit against Christus Spohn Health Read more »
ARKANSAS – The family of a man who was killed in a devastating truck accident received a $7 million verdict for damages associated with his tragic death. The lawsuit claimed Dunaway Timber Company and their truck driver, Morgan Quisenberry, were responsible for causing the accident that killed Roger Reagan as Read more »
A former Marin County tenant, Isaac Torres, was awarded a $1.1 million dollar verdict for damages associated with a slip and fall accident related injury. In January 2010, Torres suffered lumbar strain and disk injury after he fell down a flight of stairs at an apartment he rented from Read more »
An Alabama jury awarded $1.5 million to a man who was electrocuted by power lines while working for a paving company in Sawyerville. Ronald McCarter, 52, was seriously injured after the vehicle he was driving struck a power line on Alabama Highway 14. More than 7,600 volts of electricity Read more »
Fox News is reporting that the family of an autistic boy, who was killed by a New York State health aide, will receive a $5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against O.D. Heck Developmental Center. Jonathan Carey, who was 13 at the time of his death Read more »
A Montgomery County, MD jury awarded $2.032 million in a pedestrian accident case that took the life of one elderly pedestrian and seriously injured another elderly pedestrian. On October 9, 2008, Yunshu Li and her husband, Xiufeng Wang, were run over by a dump truck while walking in a Read more »
A man filed a lawsuit against the city of Carlsbad after a stun gun incident with local police left him unconsciousness for two days. On Halloween night 2009, an intoxicated William Carter walked away from a popular bar shouting because a bouncer at the bar had turned him away. Read more »