The only U.S. casualties of the Costa Concordia ship wreck that killed 32 of the 4,200 passengers and crew members after it hit rocks along the Tuscan coast have been identified as a White Bear Lake couple. The elderly couple were presumed dead weeks after the ship capsized, and friends and family held a memorial [...]

Toys ‘R Us will pay $20.6 million to the family of a 29 year-old woman and mother of a young child after she died when an inflatable slide broke as she was about to reach the pool. Family members present at the time of the accident say she was on the slide when the bottom [...]

Two doctors facing a wrongful death lawsuit have agreed to a settlement of $1.5 million after the family of the deceased accused them of over-prescribing narcotics, which ultimately resulted in death. According to court documents, one doctor prescribed the deceased 160 Oxycontin, 120 Xanax, and 320 Percocet for over two years while another doctor prescribed [...]

The parents of a 21 year-old man who was shot and killed outside a nightclub in 2005 have been awarded $1.75 million in their wrongful death lawsuit. In the early morning of March 2005, a San Francisco hip-hop festival was ending and a crowd of 200-600 people were crowded the streets outside the club. A [...]

The family of a deceased 21 year-old man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an East Texas hospital. The man went to the emergency room for sharp chest pain, headache, and hyperventilation. Two hours after he was admitted, doctors released him with prescriptions for heart burn, anti-anxiety, and narcotics for pain relief. Less than [...]

The family  of a 25 year-old Pennsylvania man who died on a water trampoline in a Jamaican resort has been awarded $6.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The man had just graduated from college when he and his family went to Jamaica for a wedding. There, he jumped on a water trampoline that was [...]

A 46-year-old construction worker from Vermont died during a construction accident in New York on Wednesday. According to reports, the man was working for Trenchless Technologies of New England and operating an auger on the company’s construction site when he was suddenly thrown to the ground and pinned underneath the auger. One of the man’s [...]

A lawsuit was recently filed against fifteen companies on behalf of a Texas man who became ill and died after being exposed to asbestos by the companies. The companies involved in the lawsuit include Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, ExxonMobil, and American Optical, among others. The man worked as a truck driver, welder, and laborer for several years prior [...]