Two Dallas Cowboys employees injured when the team practice facility collapsed on them during a storm last year reached confidential settlements with the bankrupt companies that built the tent-like structure. The terms of the out-of-court agreement reached last week were not disclosed. A Cowboys team scout and special teams coach…
An $835,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed against the city of Louisville over an accident with a police cruiser that killed a local man in 2006. Donnie Puente was standing next to his car in the emergency lane on a Kentucky highway when a police car driven…
A $125,000 settlement has been reached in a discrimination lawsuit against a Kansas-based staffing company. The lawsuit was filed against the Spencer Reed Group, LLC, by a 55-year-old white employee who claimed that she was subjected to harsher working conditions because of her age and race. She claimed that she…
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a Naples, Fla., teacher alleging that she was intoxicated when she caused a car accident last year that killed a local woman. The lawsuit, filed by the family of Bree Kelly, claims that Andrea M. Kidder was drunk at the wheel, which…
The AP (6/4) reported, “A former physician-owner and two former employees at a Las Vegas-area colonoscopy clinic were indicted on 28 felony charges, including racketeering, negligence and insurance fraud stemming from a 2008 hepatitis C outbreak. A judge in Las Vegas issued arrest warrants for physician Dipak Desai and former…
The New York Law Journal (6/7, Walder) reports, “A man who says he contracted a sexually transmitted disease after his wife had an affair with her allegedly infected psychiatrist can bring a negligence action against the doctor, a state judge has ruled. The man, Carl Levine, claimed that Dr. Robert…
The National Law Journal (6/11, Bronstad) reports, “Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California’s state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. California Chief Justice Ronald George issued an order to that effect on Tuesday, following a hearing on May 21 when Los Angeles County, Calif.,…
Since its April 8-9 board meeting, the Texas Medical Board has taken disciplinary action against 97 licensed physicians. The actions included 24 violations based on quality of care; three actions based on unprofessional conduct; 11 actions based on inadequate medical records; one action based on advertising violations; 13 voluntary surrenders/voluntary…
The AP (6/11) reports, “Texas jury has awarded $82.5 million in damages to the family of a man who died in a 2007 explosion at a natural gas processing plant in Hood County. Houston-based Hanover Compressions L.P., which has since been renamed Exterran Energy Solutions L.P., constructed, engineered and installed…
The Wall Street Journal (6/11, B4, Whalen, Mundy) reports that David Graham, an FDA drug-safety official argues in a new study that the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) may have led to thousands of heart problems that could have been prevented if patients had been using a different medication. The agency…