Latest Personal Injury News and Updates

In January, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the aircraft maker Boeing agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve a federal charge of “criminal misconduct” over the collisions in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people. The…

Last month, a settlement agreement of more than $9 million was reached between the owners of Scandies Rose Fishing Company LLC and two surviving members and the families of four men who died when the company's vessel went down on its route to start…

In November, Montana's Attorney General Tim Fox announced that the state's Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement agreement worth $100 million with tobacco companies for wrongfully withholding $3 - $4.5 million from 2006 through the…

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has approved a $56 million settlement that Columbia Gas of Massachusetts and its parent, NiSource, had agreed in July to pay over a series of explosions and fires in the state in 2018. The…

The family of an inmate who died from the flu at the Oregon State Penitentiary reached a record $2.75 million settlement with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), and its Director Colette Peters publicly apologized to the family. According…

Jersey City property owners will receive $5 million from PPG Industries as per the terms of a proposed agreement over a class action filed against the company claiming that waste from a former chromium plant presented health risks and lowered…

Whittier, the city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, has reached a tentative $28 million settlement deal with the family members of a 61-year-old San Pedro grandmother killed by a large falling tree at her daughter’s wedding party in…

A lawsuit filed by the family of a man who was killed after police used a chokehold has been settled after the city of Pittsburg to pay $7.3 million in a settlement. According to the lawsuit filed, the incident happened when the victim was on the…

On September 15, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors consented to a $5 million settlement over a 2017 lawsuit involving a patrol vehicle that killed two boys, 7 and 9 years old, on a sidewalk. According to a charge evaluation worksheet…

The family of a teenager who endured a brain injury while under anesthesia for a knee operation and an anesthesiologist reached a $9.38 million settlement over a medical malpractice case filed by the family. According to the lawsuit filed, on…