Tag Archives: negligence

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 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 …

Three people were killed and over 170 injured yesterday when two explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon in what White House officials are calling a terrorist attack. The bombs went off within seconds of each other while runners still straggled across the finish line near Copely Square at the end of the iconic 26.2 mile race. So far investigators have not released any information about who might have authored the attack. Law enforcement agents did search an apartment in …

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 …