A Texas company has been ordered to pay $240 million in damages to 32 mentally disabled workers who formerly worked at the company’s turkey processing plant in Iowa for what government lawyers described as decades of around-the-clock abuse on and …
Federal jurors in Seattle have awarded $3.45 million to the estate and survivors of a woman who drowned in 2010 while working on a ship conversion. The Seattle Times reported the jurors found the ship’s owner, G Shipping Ltd., was …
A jury has awarded $7.7 million to the parents of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia who died during a scuffle with her caregivers. The sum announced Friday after five days of deliberation was significantly larger than the $5 million Lauren …
A Colorado jury in a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely injured high school football player has found that helmet maker Riddell was negligent in failing to warn players about concussion dangers. Saturday’s ruling comes as the company …
A Nevada jury has ordered the state’s largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two companies – both subsidiaries of publicly …
A jury has awarded $26 million to the families of three people killed when a small plane crashed near Arlington, Wash. in 2008. The single-engine Cessna went down en route from San Juan Island to Auburn when its engine failed. …
Plaintiffs’ attorneys asked a Nevada state court jury on Monday to put the state’s largest health management organization on the hook for a stunning $2.5 billion punitive damage award in a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak that lawyers called the largest …
A Spokane jury awarded $813,000 this week to a woman whose foot was amputated following the wrong diagnosis by her physician. It was the second time a jury heard Darlene Turner’s medical malpractice suit against now-retired Dr. Nathan Stime. The …
A black Los Angeles police officer was awarded $1.2 million by a Southern California jury Tuesday for his racial discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the city and department. Officer Earl Wright, a 23-year veteran on the force, said the department …
A 76-year-old Alaska man has won a wrongful termination lawsuit against a company that fired him in 2008. An Anchorage jury awarded $3.5 million to Paul Blakeslee after he was fired while preparing a report on what he considered improper …
