Judge to decide on 9/11 workers settlement with New York City 
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: September 11
Thousand of workers who suffered injuries while working at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have reached a tentative $657.5 million settlement with the City of New York and its contractors.
N.Y. woman wins jury award for train-gap injury
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: train-gap injury
A New York jury has ordered the Long Island Rail Road to pay more than $247,000 to a woman who was injured when she fell into a train-platform gap.
Jury awards $12M to woman with brain injury
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: brain injury
A California jury has awarded $12 million to a southern California woman who was left in a vegetative state after she waited hours at a hospital before being sent elsewhere for surgery to remove an air-rifle pellet from her brain in 2007.
Final N.D. derailment lawsuit settled
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: chemical spill, railway
The final known lawsuit stemming from the Canadian Pacific Railway derailment and chemical spill in Minot, N.D. eight years ago has been settled.
Surgeon to pay $800,000 to settle slander suit
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: slander, surgeon
A Las Vegas surgeon recently convicted of a federal felony has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a slander suit filed against him by another doctor.
Trampoline accident settlement reached
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: Chicago, trampoline accident
After 17 years of litigation, a $14.6 million settlement has been reached in a trampoline injury lawsuit filed against the Chicago Board of Education and a youth center.
Nursing homes, family settle wrongful death suit
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: abuse, Montana, nursing homes
A Missoula, Mont. family and two nursing homes have settled a wrongful death lawsuit that claimed adequate health care was not provided to an elderly man who died of a blood infection.
Lawsuit by firefighter cadets over molestation claims settled
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: firefighter cadets, molestation, Wyoming
A lawsuit filed in Wyoming by 16 firefighter cadets who were molested by a former fire chief has been settled.
Wal-Mart to pay $12M in discrimination suit
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: sex discrimination, Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores will pay nearly $12 million and change its hiring practices to settle a sex-discrimination suit over hiring at a Kentucky warehouse.
Delaware hospital settles fraud case
Published: March 12, 2010
Tags: Christiana Care Health System, Delaware, fraud
Christiana Care Health System, Delaware’s largest health care provider, has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle claims of Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
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