Richmond is suing Chevron for damages from a massive fire that shut down the energy giant’s refinery at the San Francisco Bay area city last year. A lawsuit filed in Contra Costa County Superior Court alleges the crude-oil pipeline leak …
A Maui man who uses a wheelchair says he was forced to crawl through the aisle, up and down stairs and along a tarmac during a Delta Air Lines flight last year. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that Baraka Kanaan, in …
A Plumas County judge has dismissed a state lawsuit against California’s largest timber company for a 2007 wildfire that destroyed more than 100 square miles of forest in Northern California. State and federal officials have said the Moonlight Fire was …
Ala Moana Center had a duty to care for a woman who died after getting stuck in an exhaust duct, even though she was trespassing on the roof, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled. But the opinion also affirms parts of …
The University of Washington will pay $15.2 million in a medical malpractice judgment after a mistake caused a debilitating brain damage to a girl in 2008. The sum ordered a King County judge is one of the largest medical malpractice …
The parents of a Lehi boy who was killed after a tombstone fell on him last year are suing the cemetery’s association. According to a lawsuit filed in Utah’s Third District Court, 4-year-old Carson Dean Cheney was posing for photos …
The mother of a teenager who died from cardiac arrhythmia last year is blaming his death on Corona, Calif.-based Monster Beverage Corp., alleging in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that his death was caused by habitually drinking the company’s energy drink. …
The mother and husband of a Special Olympics Idaho athlete are suing the organization, alleging it was negligent in failing to protect the athlete from being raped during a Special Olympics event in Boise in July 2011. The lawsuit was …
The survivors of a woman killed during the production of a reality TV show pilot have filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against Discovery Communications Inc. and Anthropic Productions Corp. Terry Flanell’s husband and daughter filed the lawsuit last …
A jury has awarded $55 million to a Southern California man who lost his legs because he claims a private security firm’s guard failed to protect him from gang members who shot him at an apartment building. Jurors awarded the …
