Less than a year after a 24-year-old female bicyclist was struck and killed by a Gold Medal Environmental trash truck in the Center City District, her family entered into a $6 million settlement.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by a Milford widow against a health care provider and a doctor in 2016 recently settled. The suit itself was filed by Karen Lockwood, a resident of Milford, about “three years after her husband, Michael Lockwood, died of septic shock the day after he was admitted to a Nashua hospital.” The defendants in the suit included Southern New Hampshire Health and Dr. Abraham Jacob.
Pizza Hut recently agreed to pay $2 million to settle a class action suit that accused the pizza chain of failing to pay their “delivery drivers enough to make the minimum wage requirement in the state of Wisconsin.” The lawsuit itself was filed by Wayne Meetz, a former Pizza Hut delivery driver, back in November 2016.
Georgia’s Annotated Code Not Subject to Copyright Infringement, Court Says
New Victims of Dr. Tyndall Emerge, University Agrees to Settle
A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded a Topanga Canyon bicyclist $9.1 million for the brain damage that he suffered in a crash after he attempted to avoid debris that fell onto the Pacific Coast Highway.
StarKist Reaches Settlement Agreement with Justice Department Over Price Fixing
Supervisors in San Francisco have approved a $14.5 million settlement involving a 36-year-old woman who was hit by a falling tree branch while sitting on a park bench.
A class action settlement involving the safety mechanism on some of Remington’s most popular firearms has officially gone into effect. CNBC reports that the case’s future was decided when attorneys for the firearms manufacturer declined to pursue a Supreme Court appeal. The agreement’s finalization means that owners of Model 700 and similar rifles can request
The Wake County school district recently agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a student’s family for $75,000. According to the lawsuit, the student, Michael Burgess was an 11-year-old student at West Lake Middle School in 2014 when he was “struck by a car while trying to catch a school bus” and “suffered multiple serious injuries.” As a result, the family sued the school district, accusing it of “putting the bus stop in an unsafe location.” However, despite it’s agreement to settle the suit, the Wake County school district made “no admission of responsibility.”