Civil suit for shooting incident reaches settlement 
Published: January 4, 2013
Tags: civil suit, Massachusetts, shooting
The day before Robert O’Connell was paroled, his lawyer and the man he pleaded guilty to shooting signed a deal to quash a civil lawsuit seeking $1.5 million in damages.
Settlement revealed in fatal boat crash
Published: January 3, 2013
Tags: boat accident, boating, Minnesota, Wisconsin, wrongful death
A settlement of nearly $1.3 million has been reached by the family of a 25-year-old Minnesota man killed in a July 22, 2011 boat crash on the Chippewa River, Wis.
Jury awards family more than $100 million in wrongful death verdict
Published: December 28, 2012
Tags: Missouri, wrongful death
A jury agreed with Misty Horner’s parents that her death could have and should have been prevented.
Injured officer and wife awarded $2.2 million
Published: December 14, 2012
Tags: California, motorcycle, police officer, truck accident
A jury has awarded a Monterey Park, Calif. police sergeant and his wife $2.23 million after he was injured in a 2009 crash involving an Athens Services truck.
Fry’s pays $2.3 million to settle harassment complaint
Published: December 11, 2012
Tags: California, retaliation, sexual harassment, Washington, wrongful termination
Fry’s Electronics, which operates 17 stores in California, will pay $2.3 million to settle sexual harassment and retaliation complaints arising from incidents at a store in Washington. The EEOC had charged the company with tolerating harassment of a young salesperson and firing a supervisor for standing up for her.
$4 million settlement reached in suit over chimp attack
Published: November 30, 2012
Tags: animal attack, blindness, Connecticut
A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal’s now-dead owner.
Legal-Mal Links: Whistleblowers and Bad Checks
Published: November 21, 2012
Tags: legal malpractice, Legal-Mal Links
Legal-Mal Links provides the latest legal malpractice news from around the web.
The first story for this week involves a former city lawyer who claims she was fired after complaining that her coworkers were systematically performing legal work poorly which in some cases even reached the level of legal malpractice.
Jury awards woman in accident with FedEx truck $2.16 million
Published: November 20, 2012
Tags: car accident, FedEx, Texas
A 50-year-old woman seriously injured in an accident on August 5, 2008, in which a FedEx driver was proven to be at fault has been awarded $2.16 million by a Brazos County, Texas civil jury.
Couple awarded $5 million in medical malpractice suit
Published: November 20, 2012
Tags: medical malpractice, misdiagnosis, New Hampshire, stroke
A former radiologist from Advanced Diagnostic Imaging in Exeter, N.H. has been ruled at fault for the misdiagnosis of an Epping woman who suffered a stroke in 2007.
$123 million settlement approved in child abuse case
Published: November 20, 2012
Tags: child abuse, child sex abuse, Delaware, doctor, hospital
A judge has approved a $123 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of young children who were sexually abused by former Delaware pediatrician Earl Bradley.
