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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 …

Superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast with a vengeance last week, unleashing heavy winds and flooding that wrecked the Jersey Shore, battered New York City and left millions without electricity. The storm left unprecedented destruction up and down the Atlantic seaboard: At least 110 people were killed and 8 million left without electricity in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s passage through the United States Residential communities on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island were nearly wiped out by surging waves and …

Hurricane Sandy is putting a beatdown on the North Atlantic states today, with flooding and wind damage already occurring in some areas and the storm expected to intensify into the evening. Some 60 million people live in the hurricane’s path, while New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and other cities have all but shut down for the duration of the storm. Homeowners and renters hopefully have already hunkered down with enough food, water and emergency supplies to ride out the storm …

Jury punishes nursing home with $900 million verdict A Florida jury awarded a jaw-dropping $900 million for nursing home negligence, including $700 million designed to punish the company, Trans Health Management, Inc. The same operation recently got tagged by another jury for $200 million for a death at one of its nursing homes. The management company wasn’t allowed to defend itself at trial in either case. The whopping verdict may end up being only symbolic since the company, which had …