A now-12-year-old Temecula boy who fell from a fast-food restaurant’s play structure and struck his head, causing brain damage, was awarded a $20 million settlement from the franchise’s parent company. The money was awarded to Jacob Buckett and his sister, Isabelle, who was 5 at the time of Jacob’s fall…
A federal judge has upheld most of an $8.5 million judgment awarded to a woman who lost use of her arm due to a flesh-eating bacteria misdiagnosed by an Air Force base doctor. The judge last month granted only part of the U.S. government’s request to trim $1.13 million from…
A Palm Beach County jury has awarded $4 million on behalf of a child suffering from severe mental retardation that the family blamed on a delayed delivery in a West Palm Beach hospital more than 11 years ago. Stephanie Preshong Brown, of Palm City, was carrying twins in July 1997…
Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA unit and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said they won a verdict in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed on behalf of a Florida smoker. A state court jury in St. Petersburg, Florida, found the two biggest U.S. cigarette makers not liable in the case. The verdict…
A pharmacist at the Yuba City Wal-Mart store mislabeled a pill bottle, resulting in a woman taking twice too much blood pressure medication and nearly dying, according to a $1.2 million lawsuit. After collapsing on a bus, victim Geraldine Schamanski’s heart stopped five times in 24 hours. Besides Wal-Mart, the…
A Staten Island man stricken with polio has won a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a drug maker, claiming he contracted polio 30 years ago while changing his daughter’s diaper. Dominick Tenuto was awarded $22.5 million, believed to be one of the highest awards ever on Staten Island. The lawsuit claims…
City and police officials have agreed to pay a man $75,000 to settle a lawsuit filed after his fiancee was killed and he was seriously injured when a driver fleeing police crashed into his car. Richard Garman’s settlement, allows the city of Indianapolis to avoid a costly trial without admitting…
A jury has ruled in favor of a plaintiff in a Popcorn Workers Lung lawsuit. According to The Associated Press, the federal jury in Iowa yesterday ordered a flavorings manufacturer to pay the victim – who died just a day before of complications from Popcorn Workers Lung – and his…
The mother of University of Colorado student Lynn “Gordie” Bailey, who died of acute alcohol poisoning in September 2004 after a fraternity-initiation ritual, has settled her lawsuit with the fraternity on the eve of the trial. According to the lawyer who represented Leslie Lanahan, Bailey’s mother, said a settlement was…
A judge has awarded $45 million in damages to a San Mateo woman who was paralyzed when a wrecking and demolition company’s truck ran a red light and hit her car. Tricia Roth, now 41, a former software developer for Microsoft Corp., suffered a broken neck and spinal injuries in…