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Government Faces $9.5M Suit by Snowmobiler Who Hit Parked Black Hawk Helicopter
Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. He hit his brakes but he couldn't avoid clipping the rear tail of a Black Hawk ...
Death Prompts Family to Sue Google for Negligence Over Bad Map Directions
The family of a North Carolina man who died after driving his car off a collapsed bridge while following Google Maps directions is suing the technology giant for negligence, claiming it had been ...
Florida Girl Burned by McDonald’s Chicken McNugget Awarded $800,000 in Damages
A South Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a little girl who received second-degree burns when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg as her mother pulled away from the drive-thru of a ...
Heavy Punitive Damages Called for in J&J Talc Trial
Lawyers for a California man who says he developed a rare cancer from exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder on Monday urged a jury to order the company to pay heavy ...
PwC, MF Global Trial Begins in New York
Publicity about both the recent Academy Awards and Wall Street hung over a Manhattan courtroom on Monday as lawyers struggled to find jurors to decide whether PricewaterhouseCoopers helped cause the ...
Amtrak’s $265M Settlement Over 2015 Derailment Approved by Judge
A U.S. judge on Thursday signed off on a record $265 million settlement over an Amtrak passenger train crash in Philadelphia in 2015 that killed eight people and injured about 200 others, court ...
Yahoo Faces Negligence Suits Over Massive Data Breach
Yahoo! Inc. is being accused in lawsuits of failing to secure customer data after the company said the personal information of at least 500 million users was stolen in a 2014 hack. As a result of the ...
J&J Must Pay $72M for Cancer Death Linked to Talcum Powder
Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company's talc-based ...