A court in Lexington, Kentucky, has ruled that a nursing home should pay more than $1 million to a resident who was severely injured in a fall in an equipment storage room. Irene Hendrix was in her late 80s and …
A federal jury has awarded a Florida man $1 million in punitive damages against his former Charleston lawyer. The Post and Courier reported that a jury in Columbia ruled against attorney Robert Lowe Jr. in the legal malpractice case. The …
An eastern Pennsylvania jury has awarded more than $23 million to a woman who lost portions of both legs to infection almost three years ago. Attorneys for the 55-year-old Lehighton woman argued that a home care nurse failed to report …
A U.S. federal jury awarded DuPont $919.9 million in damages Wednesday, ruling that a South Korean company stole trade secrets for a fiber used to make Kevlar bulletproof vests. DuPont said the Richmond, Virginia, jury ordered Kolon Industries Inc. to …
A U.S. jury has found in favor of the plaintiff in a Massachusetts lawsuit filed in connection with a 1978 art heist. The jury awarded plaintiff Michael Bakwin more than $3.1 million in damages on Tuesday. The artwork was stolen …
A nine-year legal fight by a man sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s is over, now that a southern Illinois diocese and its insurer have handed over $6.3 million to resolve a jury award in the man’s favor. …
A jury in Kanawha County, West Virginia has awarded $91.5 million in damages to the family of an 87-year-old woman who died after her stay at a Charleston nursing home. The jury ruled that Heartland of Charleston failed to feed …
A jury has awarded a Maine student $300,000 in a lawsuit she filed against a nursing school that expelled her after she complained of sexual harassment by a male instructor. The InterCoast Career Institute, a California-based school that operated a …
A Northern California family has been ordered to pay $750,000 for starting a wildfire that destroyed papers written by Albert Einstein. A jury last week ruled against Margaret Pavese, her husband, Lawrence, and her father-in-law in a negligence lawsuit. The …
A Maine jury has awarded $6.7 million to a woman whose husband died at Eastern Maine Medical Center following an all-terrain vehicle accident. A Penobscot County jury granted the award to 49-year-old Paula Braley, of Lee, for the 2005 death …
