Articles Posted in Wrongful Death

The mother of a man from Tecumseh, Oklahoma has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a prison corporation and the state in the death of her son.

A lawsuit has been filed in Texas against Honda Motor Co., Ltd. by the parents of a young woman who died in her 2005 Honda Civic in April of this year, reports the Southeast Texas Record.

A 25-year-old graduate student died while waiting for treatment at Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield, Oregon, reports the Associated Press. Her parents have filed a $2 million wrongful death lawsuit against the PeaceHealth hospital group.

According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the estate of a 79-year-old woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver charged with driving while intoxicated in an accident resulting in her death. The accident happened east of Greensburg, a town close to Pittsburgh.

The family of a Putnam City West High School cross-country runner, who drowned while on a training run when he fell into deep water on a flooded portion of a trail just south of the Lake Overholser Dam, has settled with Oklahoma City for $50,000. The family claimed his death…

A jury has awarded $400,000 to an Easton, Massachusetts woman in the wrongful death of her father after he died in a 2005 incident at the Embassy House nursing home in Brockton. The man was severely injured when a nurse did not follow proper procedures when moving him from his…

A Michigan family was awarded $235,000 in a lawsuit against a GM car dealership claiming a fire in the rear seat of their Buick LeSabre, started by a faulty battery cable, caused their husband/father to die from cardiac arrest.

The family of a 27-year-old man killed in a natural gas processing plant explosion has been awarded $82.5 million by a Houston jury, according to Mineral Wells Index.com. The man died of injuries sustained when a hot oil heater he was attempting to light exploded.

A jury in Alameda County, California, found Enterprise Rent-A-Car liable for $15 million in the death of two sisters involved in a crash while renting one of their cars.

The Star-Telegram reports the family of a 27-year-old man who died of injuries suffered in an explosion at a natural gas processing plant has been awarded $82.5 million by a Harris County (Texas) jury.