Settlements

A jury awarded an $8.25 million settlement to 17 shipyard workers in Albama who got seriously injured while using a miller saw at work. As per the lawsuit, the plaintiffs blame manufacturer, Metabo and distributor Southern Gas & Supply for the…

A man who was wrongly convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1998 has been paid $11 million by a California county as he spent two decades in the prison. The plaintiff, who is 63 years old, now sued Riverside county and its sheriff’s department in…

A Philadelphia woman who was pulled from her vehicle and beaten by the police will be paid $2 million by the city. According to the court documents, the incident took place on October 27, 2020, when the woman, her 2-year-old son, and the 16-year-old…

A federal jury has announced a $5.5 million settlement to a man who got paralyzed due to an accidental shooting in Poconos. The incident took place at Threat Assessment and Tactical Solutions (TATS), a Stroudsburg shooting range that is closed post…

New Hampshire’s youth detention center faces another lawsuit from a man who alleged that he was sexually and physically assaulted by the staffers at the center. As per the court documents, the plaintiff has spent three years in the detention center…

On Aug 16, 2021, the Baltimore jury awarded nearly $35 million to the family of the permanently disabled boy who had sued MedStar Harbor Hospital. The boy was one of the twins born at MedStar Harbor Hospital in South Baltimore on Aug 19, 2007. The…

University of Maryland Shore Regional Health has resolved the lawsuit of overcharging Maryland Medicaid and Medicare programs by paying $9.5 million to the federal and state government. In June 2016, the lawsuit came up when the whistleblower…

A lawsuit over holiday back pay between International Firefighters Local 313 and the city of Morgantown will go before the jury on September 16. The lawsuits claim that Morgantown paid the firefighter for 12 hours instead of 24 hours of the shift.…

A settlement of $1.55M has been reached in a court case against the city of Troy where the police officers were accused of shooting a man in a car chase. As per the court documents, the incident took place in the early morning of April 17, 2016. The…

A jury awarded a $5.9 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit to the family of a man who died in police custody. The victim was a 38-year-old man living with his parents in the City of Pleasanton. He was suffering from a mental health crisis…