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A Manhattan jury has awarded $9.1 million to a bicyclist whose leg was mangled in a horrific 2006 accident in Hell’s Kitchen.
Tagged with: bicycle bus accident New York public transportation
Read More »Mother to receive $1.3 million settlement over police shooting of her son
The mother of Oscar Grant III will receive $1.3 million from BART in a settlement agreement that ends, in part, a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the transit agency after one of its officers killed Grant, an attorney representing ...
Tagged with: California manslaughter police shooting public transportation Taser wrongful death
Read More »Settlement over refusal to drive two women to clinic
A settlement has been paid to a minister who drove for a Texas public transit company and sued after being fired for refusing to take two women to a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Tagged with: abortion public transportation Texas
Read More »Big Dig lawsuit settled for $9 million
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and several other defendants have agreed to pay $9 million to the family of a state trooper who died when his motorcycle slammed into Big Dig handrails, whose design has been called a safety hazard and ...
Tagged with: Big Dig construction accident Massachusetts motorcycle public transportation state trooper
Read More »Jury awards $6.4M to head injury victim
A California jury has awarded $6.4 million to a wheelchair-bound man who was dropped off a bus wheelchair lift and landed on his head, suffering brain injuries.
Tagged with: negligence personal injury public transportation verdicts
Read More »$1.45 million settlement OK’d in 2005 train derailment
Metra has agreed to pay $1.45 million to a Joliet woman injured when a speeding train derailed in 2005.
Tagged with: accident Illinois public transportation train
Read More »Judge expected to approve $200 million settlement from crash
A $200 million settlement fund to compensate survivors and family members of 25 people killed in the 2008 Chatsworth Metrolink crash is expected to be approved today by a federal judge in Los Angeles, Calif.
Tagged with: California public transportation train crash
Read More »Jury awards Metro passenger $1.3 million for stair mishap
A King County, Wa. jury awarded a Metro passenger $1.3 million Thursday for injuries he sustained when he slipped exiting a bus in October of 2006.
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Read More »Jury awards $7M to woman who broke elbow
A jury in Hudson County, New Jersey has awarded $7.2 million to a doctor who sued the Port Authority after she fell and broke her elbow on a ramp at a PATH station.
Tagged with: New Jersey public transportation
Read More »Woman struck by bus awarded $10 million
An 80-year-old granny who told a Brooklyn jury she’ll never go ballroom dancing again after a bus ran into her car waltzed away with a $10 million court award yesterday.
Tagged with: automobile accident New York public transportation
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