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The family of a 13-year-old girl who was struck down by a car while crossing the street to catch her school bus has won a $90 million jury award against the school system. Ashley Davis, a freshman at Crossland High School in Maryland in 2009, crossed Brinkley Road to meet her school bus on the other side of the street. A Lincoln Continental hit her, then struck a minivan, and finally hit another teenager walking on the other side of …

A jury awarded $11.5 million to a former high school football player accusing helmet maker Riddell Sports, Inc. of causing brain injuries he suffered as a teenager. In 2008, during football practice at Trinidad High School in Trinidad, Colo., Rhett Ridolfi, now 22, suffered a concussion. He wasn’t taken to the hospital right away and is now paralyzed on the left side and has severe brain damage. His parents sued Riddell, alleging the helmet was defective and that the company was …

A girl whose cochlear hearing device implant became waterlogged, causing her to receive severe electric shocks leading to convulsions, won a $7.2 million jury award. Breanna Sadler, of Vine Grove, Ky., was 4 years old when her parents decided to have the device surgically implanted. The device, sometimes called a “bionic ear,” is placed into the bone of the skull and wires attach it to a magnet that allows a severely deaf or hearing-impaired person to hear sounds. After the …

A doctor who claimed health insurer Anthem Blue Cross retaliated against him for being a strong patient advocate, has won a $3.8 million verdict against the insurer. Jeffrey Nordella, a family-practice and urgent care doctor, used to be a preferred provider on the Anthem Blue Cross network, a unit of insurance giant WellPoint Inc. During that time, Nordella challenged the insurer’s decisions to deny his patients claims for coverage. He often protested Anthem’s denial of coverage because it wasn’t “medically …

A health insurance company rolled the dice with a Las Vegas jury and lost more than half a billion dollars. The HMO was sued by patients who were infected in a hepatitis C outbreak at colonoscopy clinics operated by a doctor who reused syringes and cut corners. The two patients, Helen Meyer and Bonnie Brunson, contracted the incurable virus that attacks the liver after undergoing endoscopic procedures at a clinic run by Dr. Depak Desai. The outbreak infected dozens of …