A trial date has been set in the case against Wal-Mart in the death of a Chadron, Neb., woman. David Lehman sued the corporation shortly after his wife, Julie, died after falling in the Chadron store. The case, filed in Dawes County District Court was removed to the U.S. District…
Less than 14 months after a devastating apartment blaze along the Conshohocken riverfront set back one of the nation’s most successful revivals of an aging town, a $36.3 million settlement has been reached to end all fire-related litigation. Of that, $27 million will go toward rebuilding the two destroyed Riverwalk…
An 80-year-old woman has been awarded a $7 million settlement from Target Corp. and a mechanical door company after she was knocked to the ground by a faulty automatic door at a Target store in Rosemont in 2007, the woman’s lawyers said in a statement. The incident on June 21,…
On April 5, 2005, plaintiff Liria Lopez, 49, a self-employed house cleaner, entered a Minyard Food Store on the corner of Abrams Road and Gaston Avenue in Dallas. It had rained that day and water had accumulated in the store’s foyer area. As Lopez exited, she slipped on the water.…
Three years ago, James Becker was doing what many vigorous 15-year-old boys do – playing baseball, basketball and soccer. Now he is severely disabled, must use a wheelchair and is under the constant care of his mother. The accident that reduced James to such circumstances occurred at the Woodcroft Swim…
A Cobb County, Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a personal injury case stemming from a forklift accident inside a store. According to the complaint, in November 2005 shopper Larry Reece fell and suffered neck and spine injuries after a pallet of…
The family of an 11-year-old boy killed when a 1,600-pound metal gate fell on him while he played at a Boston, Methuen school will receive a $600,000 settlement from the city. The city had previously admitted that it was liable for leaving the unsecured iron gate in an area children…
A Maricopa County Superior Court jury has awarded $3.3 M to a Scottsdale woman who was sickened and permanently disabled by a mold infestation in her apartment building. Robin Minium was a project manager for American Express and worked out of her upscale apartment near Scottsdale and Bell roads. She…
A Santa Barbara jury has awarded Oded and Anat Gottesman nearly $14 million in compensatory economic and non-economic damages for the loss of their child Yoni, who drowned in a Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club swimming pool in 2005. The total will undoubtedly climb, however, as punitive damages have not yet…
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…