“Lock in a Sock” attack on inmate results in serious injuries.
A lawsuit filed by a former inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center claims that prison staff failed to intervene in a brutal attack in September 2016.
A lawsuit has been filed in federal court on behalf of a 27-year old woman whose teacher used duct tape to keep her mouth closed.
The teachers allegedly duct taped the student to keep her from making too much noise in her special education classroom.
An Inmate told his correctional officers that something was eating his brain. Turns out he was right.
27 year old, Marques Davis, told the Kansas facility doctor’s that something was very wrong, four months later he was dead.
An Oregon woman underwent an unnecessary double mastectomy and hysterectomy after her normal tests were incorrectly read to indicate that she was at risk for breast and uterine cancer.
Months after she underwent the painful surgeries, she found that her treating doctors had allegedly been mistaken in reading her test results. She is suing her doctors for $1.8 million.
A Manhattan resident received no relief after suffering a devastating hit in the face from a foul ball at Yankee Stadium.
In August 2011, Andy Zlotnick was just 200 feet from the home plate when Hideki Matsui slammed a foul ball into the stands.
$474 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson has been overturned in California.
The verdict stems from a claim by a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s baby powder that contained talc.
Six students at a local college reached a $660,000 settlement in a federal lawsuit after being the subjects of inappropriate photographs taken by a teacher.
Adam Mayr, an English teacher and a resident of Washington Township was arrested in March 2015 for allegedly using a special camera located in a pen to take up-skirt photos.
In an unusual case, a judge has refused to grant summary judgment in favor of a medical center based on “wrongful prolongation of life”.
It appears that courts are becoming more receptive to tort lawsuits when hospitals and medical professionals administer life support against patient wishes.
Survivors and families of the victims of the Las Vegas massacre have taken aim at ‘bump stock’ manufacturers in the wake of the devastation.
Stephen Paddock opened fire on at a country music festival in Las Vegas that using a weapon attachment known as a bump stock device, which effectively turned a semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic.
A woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital and her doctors after she lost all of her limbs after giving birth.
A woman has filed a lawsuit against a hospital and her doctors after she lost all of her limbs after giving birth.