An Illinois doctoral student who was violently arrested after cops thought he was stealing a vehicle in 2015 has settled a lawsuit for $1.25 million.
A Chicago suburb has tentatively agreed to pay a former doctoral student $1.25 million to settle a lawsuit alleging police officers tackled him to...
In 2018, a federal jury found that Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. was not forthright about the risk of potential bleeding injuries with its drug, Pradaxa (Dabigatran), and the jury awarded the plaintiff $250,000 for medical expenses and pain and suffering, as well as $1 million in punitive damages. This was the first trial win for plaintiffs, after the manufacturer had succeeded at three prior trials.
Bayer AG unit Monsanto has asked a California judge in the litigation over its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup allegedly causing cancer to limit evidence by splitting an upcoming trial into two phases, a request previously successful with another judge.
Monsanto in a previously unreported filing on Jan. 15 asked California Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith in Oakland to split a March trial by a California couple into two phases.
Rite Aid of Massachusetts will contribute $177,000 to the state’s Municipal Naloxone Fund and correct its procedures to settle allegations that its dispensing of controlled substances, including opioids, failed to follow regulations designed to prevent substance use disorder, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.
Perry Public Schools admitted liability for the “unwanted and unlawful touching” of 14 girls by a former teacher’s aide and agreed to pay the families $3.5 million to settle the case, according to court documents.
Arrest affidavits note the Perry Upper Elementary School students detailed how Arnold Cowen, 87, fondled them in 2016 and 2017, sometimes during “lengthy hugs and inappropriate touches.”
Attorneys for the group of Boardwalk street performers who prevailed in their federal case against Ocean City’s busker ordinance filed a motion to recover fees and costs totaling over $175,000. While a group of Boardwalk street performers were awarded just nominal damages following their victory over Ocean City in a federal suit challenging the busker ordinance, the real impact on the town’s wallet could be felt in the award of attorney fees and other costs associated with litigating the case.
After years of petitioning major retailers to stop selling products that contain Monsanto’s toxic glyphosate herbicide it appears that Costco may be the first major store to remove this product from its shelves. The use of glyphosate , which is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup , has skyrocketed around the globe in spite of research outlining the harmful effects of this herbicide, including liver disease and cancer.
The state Supreme Court has upheld an Appellate Court decision striking down what originally was a $12.2 million jury award to a man who alleged that police were responsible for his injuries when a van driver struck him as a pedestrian in November 2006.
Atlantic City will pay out a settlement of $462,500 to a man who claimed a group of police officers beat him and held him at gunpoint before releasing two K-9 dogs on him in February 2012.
In a federal lawsuit filed in November 2013, Julius Adams said he was walking home from Trump Casino after a night of gambling and drinking when he was stopped by a group of Atlantic City police officers.
A woman who was injured when a cart at a Kroger grocery store malfunctioned was awarded $2.7 million by a jury, lawyers said.
Zula Wortham said she injured her knee and had to have surgery on her hip after a wheel popped off a shopping cart she was using Aug. 25, 2016, without warning at a Tennessee Kroger.
"A jury rendered a verdict (Friday) in favor of Mrs. Wortham, 91 years old now, and against Kroger for $2.7 million," lawyers for Wortham told FOX13Memphis.
A year after suing their company Purdue Pharma and others for $500 million, New York City formally accused the wealthy Sackler family of participating in a decades-long campaign to mislead the public about the dangers of OxyContin.
“It is important to note that the Sacklers personally derived billions of dollars of profits from Purdue Pharma’s sale of opioids since the 1980s,” New York City Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter said in a statement on Wednesday.
One Lyft rider has filed a class action lawsuit against the ride-hailing service, one driver, and several employees, alleging that she was sexually assaulted because of Lyft's many failures. The rider's story is absolutely horrific. After making the smart decision to go home after getting drunk, she entered a Lyft car, then blacked out. And while she only remembers waking up the next morning in her bed, the surveillance cameras insider her home told a much scarier tale .
Victims and family members of those killed during the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday to revive wrongful death and Anti-Terrorism Act claims against Twitter and other social media platforms.
The shooting left 49 dead and 53 others wounded. It was carried out by Omar Mateen, a member of the Islamic State group, also called ISIS, described by FBI analysts as “self-radicalized.”
You've been eating cereal wrong your whole life, says National Trial Lawyers member Ed Herman of Brown & Crouppen in St. Louis. To set things straight, Herman shares his cereal expertise with the world in a viral YouTube video that's winning him fans, with more than 200,000 views on YouTube and more than 600,000 on Facebook, according to Riverfront Times. The video is titled "Ed V. Cereal," and it may cause you to rethink how you eat your daily bowl of breakfast cereal. What does he believe is the perfect cereal? Watch this video to find out!
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition brought by six young people asking the Centennial State to make human health a priority when issuing permits for oil and gas drilling.
“The court acknowledges the civic engagement of these young men and women as well as the concerns that motivated this action,” wrote Justice Richard Gabriel a 31-page opinion.