A federal judge on Wednesday declined to dismiss wrongful death and liability claims filed against the company that owns the Colorado movie theater where 12 people were shot to death last summer. Cinemark USA filed a motion in federal court …
A federal judge says he will render a verdict as soon as possible in the $14 million wrongful death suit filed by the family of a samurai sword-wielding man shot and killed by a Las Cruces Police officer. The Las …
Jurors who wanted to send a message to the trucking industry awarded $58.5 million to the estate and family of a Carlsbad, N.M. man fatally injured in a 2010 accident when his vehicle collided with an oil industry tanker. The …
A state hearings officer has upheld a ruling that Blaine and Hill counties showed discriminatory indifference toward an 18-year-old inmate in the Hill County Detention Center who died in 2009 of acute alcohol withdrawal. The order by Department of Labor …
The widow of a veteran Oakland Tribune journalist who was struck and killed by a San Francisco Muni train four years ago has been awarded a $900,000 wrongful death settlement. The San Jose Mercury News reported the Municipal Transportation Agency’s …
The family of an Iraq War veteran who was fatally shot by a police officer wanted to settle a lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque for $1 million before a judge ruled in February that the veteran was unlawfully killed. …
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the owners of a Meridian apartment building and its property management company after an 18-year-old Marine died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his girlfriend’s apartment last November. KTVB-TV reported attorneys filed the …
A Sacramento Superior Court jury has returned verdicts of wrongful death and elder abuse against the nation’s largest assisted living company. The Sacramento Bee reported the trial now enters the punitive-damages phase for Emeritus Corp, a Seattle-based company with annual …
A county official says a dispatcher followed general protocols when she pleaded with an independent living facility nurse to perform CPR on a woman who later died in California. The statement came Monday after the facility defended the nurse, saying …
The family of a man shot to death by Kauai police a year ago in Hawaii has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the department, Kauai County and the officer involved in the shooting. The suit was filed by the …
