A settlement agreement reached last week in a personal injury lawsuit brought by a Charleston firm could lead to safer roadways by prompting more trucking firms to adopt bans on their drivers’ use of mobile phones. Unifi Inc., a North Carolina-based manufacturer of polyester and nylon yarns, agreed to pay $3.75 million to a Bennettsville […]
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Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer and Coeur d’Alene Resort General Manager Bill Reagan are targets of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of a 73-year-old woman who died of hypothermia in her apartment. Widmyer and Reagan are co-owners of the Royal Arms Apartments, where Margie Saunders lived alone and died as a result
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Retired athletes from South Florida are trying to make the National Football League recognize a traumatic brain disease — linked to repeated head injuries — as an occupational hazard that would be covered by workers’ compensation. Lawyers for the former NFL players filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale against the league and
In November 2015, Megan Fox bought a new hoverboard from seller, “W-Deals,” on Amazon for $274.79 as a Christmas gift for her 14-year-old son. After two weeks of use, the hoverboard burst into flames, engulfing the family’s house and destroying all of the family’s personal property. At the time of the fire, two of Megan
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Owners of 2500 and 3500 Dodge RAM trucks filed a class-action lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler and engine manufacturer Cummins Inc., stating that the two entities conspired to knowingly deceive consumers and regulators of illegally high levels of diesel emissions in their vehicles, according to leading automotive litigation law firm Hagens Berman. The lawsuit accuses the two
The city of Chicago must pay almost $2.5 million to a CTA train operator who was injured after a police car chasing a bicyclist crashed into a Brown Line train, a jury found. A Cook County jury last week found in favor of CTA worker Jeffery Bryant, who suffered a serious spinal injury after the August 10,
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the last of the nearly 16,000 U.S. heavy trucks voluntarily recalled earlier this year by Volvo Trucks North America for a serious steering defect have been identified and repaired, achieving an extraordinary 100 percent vehicle safety recall completion in a very short period of time.
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After a $67.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Oct. 27 marked its third straight trial defeat in an onslaught of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, the company is hoping to reverse the trend by having the cases heard in a different court. All three awards, totaling around $195 million,
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Boston, MAHaving already paid out $650 million in settlement dollars over lawsuits in 2014, attorneys for the makers of dabigatran Pradaxa are busy attempting to escape a wrongful death lawsuit scheduled for December. It would be the first federal lawsuit over Pradaxa, set to commence next month. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical Inc. is trying to shut it down
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Great Kills couple hurt three years ago in Charleston when another driver allegedly ran a red light and hit their car, has settled their lawsuit for $1 million, said their lawyer. Bobby Negron, 40, was driving a 2009 Mazda owned by his wife, Bonnie Negron, when the crash occurred at
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