Settlements

New Hampshire’s youth detention center faces another lawsuit from a man who alleged that he was sexually and physically assaulted by the staffers at the center. As per the court documents, the plaintiff has spent three years in the detention center…

On Aug 16, 2021, the Baltimore jury awarded nearly $35 million to the family of the permanently disabled boy who had sued MedStar Harbor Hospital. The boy was one of the twins born at MedStar Harbor Hospital in South Baltimore on Aug 19, 2007. The…

University of Maryland Shore Regional Health has resolved the lawsuit of overcharging Maryland Medicaid and Medicare programs by paying $9.5 million to the federal and state government. In June 2016, the lawsuit came up when the whistleblower…

A lawsuit over holiday back pay between International Firefighters Local 313 and the city of Morgantown will go before the jury on September 16. The lawsuits claim that Morgantown paid the firefighter for 12 hours instead of 24 hours of the shift.…

A settlement of $1.55M has been reached in a court case against the city of Troy where the police officers were accused of shooting a man in a car chase. As per the court documents, the incident took place in the early morning of April 17, 2016. The…

A jury awarded a $5.9 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit to the family of a man who died in police custody. The victim was a 38-year-old man living with his parents in the City of Pleasanton. He was suffering from a mental health crisis…

The University of Maryland has agreed to pay a settlement of $3.5 million to the parents of a football player who died of heatstroke following a workout in 2018. The settlement was announced in a meeting agenda released by the Maryland Board of…

A 2016 lawsuit filed by the state of New Mexico over the 2015 Gold King Mine spill has reached a settlement, and the state will receive $11 million from Silverton-based Sunnyside Gold Corp., owned by the international mining conglomerate Kinross…

Tyco Fire Products, a major manufacturer of aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), and two other companies agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS contamination in the Peshtigo and…

U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik awarded $10 million as a settlement to the family of a severely disabled child who was born after a nurse at the Neighbourcare Health Clinic in Seattle gave a flu shot instead of a birth-control injection. According…