A Chicago man filed a lawsuit against NBC Universal Inc. over an injury he sustained while walking through the set of the movie “Public Enemies” in the streets of Chicago in 2008. In his lawsuit, John McManus said he tripped on one of the fake rubber cobblestones installed by set…
A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a Sarasota man more than $14 million after deciding that the asbestos he inhaled in the 1970s caused his deadly abdominal cancer. Jurors found that chemical giant Union Carbide was negligent for selling asbestos fibers to other companies, which had used the fibers to make…
A federal judge has issued a scheduling order for the first bellweather NuvaRing lawsuit trials in the federal Multidistrict Litigation (MDL), which involve claims filed by women who allege that side effects of the birth control ring caused them to suffer serious and potentially life-threatening blood clots. All fact discovery…
A Maryland woman was awarded $3.5 million by a local jury in a malpractice lawsuit over an alleged botched surgery that left her unable to walk. Victoria Little underwent surgery for blocked arteries in 2007, and the lawsuit claims the doctors used an improper grafting technique. The surgery caused severe…
A sexual assault lawsuit against a University of Iowa anesthesiologist has been settled. In the lawsuit, Pauline Longoria claimed that Dr. Samir Haddad sexually assaulted her in his office on campus in May 2007. Haddad claims the “sexual contact” was consensual, and the local district attorney’s office has not yet…
A lawsuit has been filed against CVS and a Chicago store employee who allegedly strangled a man to death for shoplifting crayons and toothpaste. Michael Johnson said in his lawsuit that an unnamed employee chased his son, Anthony Kyser, from the store and put him in a choke hold that…
Tonight’s 60 minutes show on CBS, reported the harrowing story of the BP TransOcean’s rig, the Deep Horizon. As the world knows on April 20, 2010 there was a tremendous explosion on the oil rig, located some 40 miles of the Louisiana coast. In the gas explosion 11 oil rig…
The city has offered a record-setting $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was killed with a Taser during a confrontation with police last year. The City Council is scheduled to vote on the settlement according to an agenda posted online. It’s the…
A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against a New York cancer specialist, claiming he treated a woman for pancreatic cancer when she in fact was not sick, and that the treatment killed her. Giuseppa Bono went to see Dr. Gilbert Lederman on referral from an Italian doctor who, as…
The Harris County Commissioner’s Court approved a $167,500 settlement in a lawsuit over a woman who died while in a county jail in 2008. The lawsuit alleged that Margarita Saavedra had begged for medical treatment from the jail staff for a staph infection in the days before she died. She…