Articles Posted in Wrongful Death

The city of Fort Worth has offered the family of a man killed by an officer’s Taser $2 million to settle their lawsuit, although the city admits no wrong doing, reports the Star-Telegram.

A jury in San Angelo (Texas) federal court has reached a $1.8 million award against Hyundai Motor Company in favor of the plaintiff – the father of a 19-year-old girl killed in 2007, reports GoSanAngelo. The teenager was a passenger in a car driven by her sister when the car…

The Kansas City Star reports a settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager against the Independence (Missouri) Police Department.  

A police officer and the bar which served her will pay a total of $2.255 million for the wrongful death of four, and the injuries to another man, reports St. Louis Today. The lawsuit claimed the police officer had consumed a “high quantity” of alcohol at O’Leary’s Restaurant and Bar…

The former owners of a restaurant in Gresham, Oregon will pay $1.3 million after being accused of serving too much alcohol to a convicted drunk driver who killed two young women reports KATU.com. The judge could more than double that amount. Although the Golden Star Restaurant is now under different…

The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida reports an appeals court has upheld a lower court’s award of $33.3 million to a husband and three of his children in their wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens. Their 46-year-old wife and mother died in 2007 after Walgreen’s pharmacy mistakenly gave her 10 times the…

The family of a 27-year-old man whose unlawful death was caused by police in Clackamas County, Oregon, has reached a $1 million settlement with the county, reports the Gresham News. The family had separately reached a $1 million settlement with the city of Sandy and a former police officer.

The family of a 39-year-old scientist at the University of Washington has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the vehicle that struck and killed him on February 4, 2009, reports the Ballard News-Tribune. Kevin Black was struck by a Ford E250 van as he was bicycling to…

The Frederick News Post reports a Montgomery County Circuit jury has given a couple a $1.8 million award in the death of their newborn son. When the baby was born on July 5, 2005, the doctor chose to use vacuum extraction for the delivery because the baby’s head was wedged…

A Chilton County, Alabama jury has awarded $3.5 million to the family of a man killed when the van he was driving was crushed between two logging trucks, reports the Montgomery Advertiser. Ken Gorum Trucking and Gary Fruge, the driver of the logging truck, were held responsible for the accident…