Bus company pays $5 million to settle wrongful death 
Published: February 8, 2012
Tags: bus, car accident, Missouri, wrongful death
A Cincinnati-based school bus company has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit in Missouri where one of the drivers for First Student drove a bus over and killed a teen.
Former highway worker hurt in accident reaches $3 million settlement
Published: December 19, 2011
Tags: car accident, Pennsylvania, quadriplegic
A Lower Pottsgrove, Penn. man who was employed as a highway construction worker when he was injured by a passing motorist, leaving him a quadriplegic, has reached a $3 million workers compensation settlement.
Student awarded $2.7 million in crash
Published: November 10, 2011
Tags: car accident, drunk driver, drunk driving, Texas
A jury has awarded $2.7 million to a University of Texas at San Antonio student who broke both legs and arms last year in a head-on collision with a drunken-driving suspect.
Taxi company hit with $1.5 million verdict after blind man’s death
Published: October 4, 2011
Tags: blind, car accident, North Carolina, taxi, wrongful death
A jury has decided the estate of a blind Gastonia, N.C. man is entitled to $1.5 million after he was struck by a taxi four years ago and died in 2008 as a result of his injuries.
Girl’s family awarded $2.9 million over hit-and-run
Published: September 1, 2011
Tags: car accident, hit-and-run, Pennsylvania, wrongful death
A Bucks County judge has awarded $2.9 million to the family of a 14-year-old Bensalem girl who was killed in a 2004 hit-and-run crash.
Verdict of more than $3 million returned in fatal crash case
Published: August 23, 2011
Tags: California, car accident, wrongful death
A jury has returned a verdict of more than $3 million against three people responsible for causing an accident that killed a man on Highway 58 nearly three years ago.
Jury awards family $3 million in tired trucker accident
Published: August 17, 2011
Tags: car accident, Florida, truck accident, wrongful death
A federal jury has awarded $3 million to the family of a 33-year-old Lake County man killed in late 2009 in a trucking accident on Interstate 95 in Flagler County, Fla.
Verdict absolves Ford in lawsuit
Published: July 28, 2011
Tags: car accident, drunken driving, Ohio, police
A jury verdict in favor of the Ford Motor Co. is a vindication of the company’s police cruiser design, according to a lawyer for the company.
$6.5 million for unmarked car accident that killed boy and injured girl
Published: July 28, 2011
Tags: car accident, Illinois, police, wrongful death
The City Council Finance Committee has approved paying $6.5 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the death of an 8-year-old boy and the injury of an 11-year-old girl who were hit by an unmarked police car seven years ago.
Jury awards $2.5 million to man injured by contractor
Published: July 27, 2011
Tags: bus, car accident, Texas
A jury awarded a Santa Fe, Texas man $2.5 million after he sued, claiming he was hit by a bus driven by a contractor at the BP Texas City plant, his attorney said.
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