In August 2014, Marine Corps veteran Jason Simcakoski of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, passed away of a drug overdose during his stay at the VA medical center in Tomah, Wisconsin. Simcakoski’s family filed a lawsuit against the government shortly after his death, and just last week it settled for $2.3 million. But what happened to lead to the overdose? Was the VA medical center responsible for the death?
A $9 million settlement has been reached between Pizza Hut and a young man, Jeremy Damery, in response to a lawsuit Damery filed against the popular pizza chain. The lawsuit itself was filed in relation to an August 2009 accident where Damery, who was two days away from beginning firefighter-paramedic classes, was riding his motorcycle and was hit by a “Las Vegas Pizza Hut” delivery driver. The accident almost killed Damery and forced him to put his dream of attending firefighter-paramedic classes on hold.
A New Jersey high school student forced to attend her prom in a wheelchair was awarded $1.2 million following a successful medical malpractice lawsuit. Samantha Alpert – now 22 – was once an all-star tennis player at Livingstone High School, according to NJ.com. After a biopsy on her leg went wrong, the woman suffered nerve
Chin is Not Guilty of Murder, According to Jurors
McDonald’s Franchise Owners Settle Employee Compensation Lawsuit
911 Operator Must Pay $17.6 Million for Improperly Handling Call
Many of us remember Paul Walker for his entertaining movies, especially the Fast and Furious franchise. Others, like his daughter, remember him in a different light – as a loving father who left this world too soon. The actor’s tragic death nearly four years ago shocked the world after he passed away in a car accident. He had been riding as a passenger in a “Porsche Carrera GT while his friend, Roger Rodas, was driving.” Shortly after his death, though, his daughter, Meadow Walker, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche, alleging that the “history of instability and control issues by the car, more specifically her father being trapped by a faulty seat belt, is what led Paul to burn alive.” Fortunately for Miss Walker, the lawsuit was settled on October 16th.
Supreme Court Won’t Honor $4.5 Million Award in Abuse Case
A settlement has been reached between Wisconsin environmental officials and the Dairy Business Association after members of Wisconsin’s dairy industry filed a lawsuit “alleging the agency was over-regulating large livestock farms.” The lawsuit itself was filed back in July and claimed the “state Department of Natural Resources had stopped allowing concentrated animal feeding operations to pass runoff through vegetation patches to filter pollution without going through the administrative rule-making process.”
A federal appeals court rejected a plea to revive a defamation lawsuit against disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby. The claim dates back to an incident which purportedly took place in 1974. An actress says that Cosby raped her, and later went public with the accusation. After she published an account of her ordeal in a newspaper