April 20, 2017 Wanda Holbrook, a Grand Rapids resident and 12-year veteran of an automotive factory, died when a robot’s arm malfunctioned and pressed her head into a fixture on July 7, 2015. The Ventra Ionia Plant used robots to weld plates onto truck bumpers, and one robotic arm swung into the 57-year-old woman’s area, resulting…
February 28, 2017 At the end of a lengthy trial in the Compton Superior Court, a California family received a $26 million award in damages for the wrongful death of their teenage son, Mason Zisette. The deliberating jury handed down the largest verdict in California concerning a minor’s death. Mason Zisette received an invitation to…
January 31, 2017 A year after a mentally ill prisoner was beaten to death in a Santa Clara correctional facility, the victim’s family settled the case out of court for $3.6 million. The family of Michael Tyree, 31, includes his 7-year-old daughter and his two sisters. However, the family lawyer reported that the award from…
February 29, 2016 After the death of three people in a shooting rampage, family members are filing a lawsuit, alleging that a Walmart employee negligently sold ammunition to an intoxicated and underage customer. They filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Philadelphia on Dec. 31, 2015, stating that the cashier sold ammunition to a 20-year-old man…
February 20, 2016 A family from Alabama claims that a snake escaped from its cage and bit their son, resulting in a heart attack and the eventual death of the child’s great-grandmother. The family lawyer stated that the family will file a personal injury lawsuit against Disney. In October 2014, the snake allegedly fell out…
January 18, 2016 A couple filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month after their 16-year-old son collapsed and died during a high school football practice in New York City on Sept. 1, 2014. The parents claimed that their son would not have died if the city had provided proper care, including access to a defibrillator….
May 20, 2015 Every year, far too many workers suffer serious injuries or even death while on the job. Although many of these tragic events occur in faraway countries like Bangladesh, others take place right here in the United States. On rare occasions, when the government decides that an employer has been extremely negligent, local…
April 14, 2015 The family of Jahi McMath, the teen at the center of a controversial case involving the removal of life support, has filed a lawsuit against a California medical facility over serious brain damage she suffered during surgery on Dec. 9, 2013. She was later declared brain dead at the same hospital and eventually transported…
April 8, 2015 With the cases of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, alleged police brutality has become an eminent issue in American society. On April 7th, yet another video of a police officer killing an unarmed citizen was released. This time the video documents the seemingly unprovoked murder of a fifty-year-old man, Walter L. Scott in South…
April 2, 2015 America can’t afford to forget the senseless tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, back in December of 2012. That was the month when Adam Lanza, a mentally unstable 20-year-old, found a gun in his mother’s home and killed her. He then went over to Sandy Hook Elementary where…