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A homeowner with a fear of frogs had his $1.6 million jury verdict upheld against a developer that left his property full of the slimy critters. Growing up in Italy, Paul Marinaccio Sr., was terrorized in an incident that left him with a life-long frog-phobia. A man holding bullfrogs chased the young Marinaccio after he wandered away from the vineyard where his parents worked. As an adult living in upstate New York, Marinaccio found himself facing his fear in the …

If you haven’t had a bad experience with a car mechanic, you probably don’t own a car. But did you ever wonder who repairs rental cars? One Philadelphia driver found out the painful way. A jury ordered a Toyota dealer to pay $15.7 million to Noreen Lewis and her passengers who were all injured after Lewis’ rental car got into an accident. Lewis rented a vehicle in 2008 from PhillyCarShare to drive to New York to see her daughter perform …

A trucker who was hit on the head by a falling box of Dollar General merchandise won a $2.2 million jury verdict. It was Black Friday in 2007, the busiest retail day of the year, when Gregory Baird was unloading his truck of boxes of merchandise at the Dollar General store in Troy, Mo. It was at night and he couldn’t see clearly and didn’t use a light. Suddenly, a 38-pound box that was not loaded into the truck correctly …

A patient who was given a shot of a contrast dye that left him unable to move won a $5 million verdict against GE Healthcare, the maker of the dye. Paul Decker, a retired Ohio man suffering from kidney disease, was given a single dose of Omniscan, a contrast agent administered before body scans like MRIs to help technicians and doctors read the scans more clearly. Decker developed a condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis after the 2005 scan. NSF is …

A federal jury has ordered police in Long Beach, Calif., to pay $6.5 million to the family of a man shot dead by police officers. Douglas Zerby was sitting in front of a friend’s apartment in December 2010 when two officers shot him 12 times. They thought he was holding a gun; he was playing with a garden hose with a metal nozzle. Zerby’s family sued the police department, arguing officers Victor Ortiz and Jeffrey Shurtleff didn’t identify themselves, order …