Recent lawsuit and settlement news.
A panel of six jurors in Broward County, Florida, awarded a $15.4 million dollar verdict to Dwight Grant, a man who suffered a serious brain injury in a drunk driving accident. Grant was a passenger in the back seat of a car that had stopped for a raising drawbridge Read more »
In personal injury news, an Ohio medical center will pay $4.3 million to the parents of a girl who suffered a permanent brain injury during childbirth. On March 13, 2008, Crystal Rinker was admitted to Mercy Medical Center for the delivery of her baby. The center’s labor and delivery Read more »
A Union, Mo., jury awarded $48 million to the relatives of five people killed in a skydiving plane crash. Each family will receive $4 million in compensatory damages and a portion of the $28 million in punitive damages awarded by the jury. The aviation accident lawsuit claimed London-based Read more »
The family of Alton Stoval Sr. received a $2 million dollar settlement from San Diego County for his tragic death at Edgemoor Skilled Nursing Home Facility in Santee. Stoval, who was paralyzed, bled to death after falling out of his bed the morning of May 30, 2010. Although Read more »
A Birch Run woman, Wenise Long, received a $3.25 million dollar wrongful death settlement from the federal government for the death of her husband and daughter in an auto accident. Dan and Emily Long both sustained fatal blunt force trauma injuries in a 2008 car crash, allegedly caused by Read more »
A San Diego Ford dealership, Mossy Ford, will pay $14.4 million in a wrongful death lawsuit to the surviving three sons of a couple that was killed in a rollover crash caused by a faulty tire. Combined with an earlier settlement of $8.3 million, the $14.4 million dollar verdict Read more »
A Cupertino woman who suffered a permanent brain injury in a bicycle accident will receive a $400,000 settlement from the city of Palo Alto. The lawsuit filed by Janet Pierce claims the city negligently created hazardous road conditions on a stretch of road known for its cycling traffic. Read more »
An Ohio family was awarded $15 million in damages for the death of Dimitry Karpov, one of four people killed in a 2005 truck accident on the Indiana Toll Road. A federal judge found Net Trucking of Burbank, Ill., acted negligently by allowing truck driver, Stanislaw Gil, to Read more »
The parents of a cyclist, who lost their son in a fatal big rig collision, reached a $1.5 million dollar settlement earlier this year with the truck driver who hit their son, Gabriel Vera, and his employer, Randazzo Enterprises. Paul and Maria Myslin also filed a lawsuit against the Read more »
A Clarksville, Tennessee woman, Sahra Sutton, was recently awarded $6 million dollars in damages for a personal injury lawsuit she filed in September of 2008 against Blanchfield Army Community Hospital for injuries her newborn daughter developed as a result of a contracted doctor’s negligence. Sutton claims Read more »