After one Texas teen was killed and another paralyzed in a rollover accident, their parents are suing the manufacturer of their 2006 Volkswagen Beetle.
The vehicle was “unreasonably dangerous,” contend…
In the latest ruling in a steady stream of medical privacy cases, a California judge has nixed a Texas doctor’s claimed right to distribute videotapes of the 1994 breast augmentation…
During oral arguments today, two U.S. Supreme Court justices blamed the Federal Trade Commission for misleading consumers about the dangers of light cigarettes. The arguments did not bode well for…
The family of a 38-year-old woman who was crushed to death in 2006 when a portion of the so-called “Big Dig” tunnel ceiling collapsed in Boston will get $28 million…
Two former security employees at a Neiman Marcus department store near Chicago were fired after a video camera allegedly twice caught the “close friends” allegedly involved in “sexual activity” with…
A law firm in Dallas has agreed to pay $840,000 restitution in exchange for an agreed sentence of probation in a federal mail and health care fraud conspiracy case.
A California federal judge has temporarily lifted a federal deadline for borrowers to file federal claims against IndyMac Bank in a lawsuit that claims the plaintiffs were lured into deceptive…
Overwhelmed with work in her law practice and part-time position as a substitute judge, a 54-year-old Italian attorney allegedly exercised an option that isn’t available to most of her colleagues:
Although the worst of the mortgage meltdown was then still in the future, a ABA study of legal malpractice claims from 2004 to 2007 showed that related legal malpractice claims…
Blinded in a workplace shooting four years ago that killed several others, 34-year-old Jamie Dolan also reportedly suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks.
Fat and calories aren’t the only hidden risks of movie theater popcorn. The unpopped kernels also post dental dangers, but that doesn’t mean the cinema has to…
Despite predictions that the current U.S. economic crisis will bring more business to a number of lawyers, it is also likely to mean more work and less pay for others.
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