$5.95 Million Settlement Agreement by Sarasota County for School Teacher Injured by County Truck Kristin Steward, a second-grade school teacher, was jogging on an afternoon in May 2020 when she was hit from behind by a Sarasota County 2015 Ford F550 utility truck. She explains that the truck dragged her 65 feet, tearing her flesh […]
$7 Million Awarded by Kanawha jury from Ford to Family of Woman’s Fatal Crash A Kanawha County jury awarded a Raleigh County family $7 million after they sued Ford Motor Company. They claimed that the company was to blame for their daughter’s death in a 2016 crash involving the daughter’s Mustang and a pickup truck. […]
Mount Hood Skibowl Closes Mountain Biking after ‘Unprecedented’ Injury Lawsuit Mount Hood Skibowl in Oregon will suspend summer mountain biking operations for the summer of 2022, following the first “serious bike claim” in more than three decades. Gabriel B. Owens was paralyzed from the waist down after a 2016 accident. The Skibowl verdict was described […]
$8 Million Settlement Awarded to Illinois Man Hit by Snowplow in 2019 An Iowa state board has approved an $8 million payment to an Illinois man who was permanently disabled after being hit by an Iowa Transportation Department snowplow in 2019. The settlement was approved by a three-member Iowa State Appeal Board to Terry Bunting, […]