Wrongful Death In The News

A Kentucky woman has agreed to take nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the U.S. government of negligence in her husband's death at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Marion.

A wrongful-death lawsuit filed in federal court against the city of Fort Wayne earlier this month was met with denials Friday from the city's attorney.

TIFFIN — A Toledo woman has filed a wrongful-death suit against the village of Bettsville stemming from her son’s drowning last year in a local quarry. In a complaint filed in Seneca County Common Pleas Court, Rosalinda Contreraz is seeking damages of $25,000 or more from the Seneca County village, its recreation board, and a lifeguard on duty Aug. 3, 2007, when her 15-year-old son, Santos ...

The state has settled a $350,000 lawsuit brought by the family of an 18-year-old inmate who hung himself at a juvenile prison.

TORONTO - Questions persisted Tuesday about how and why police first cleared Romeo Phillion of murder then later decided his alibi was false as Ontario's highest court grappled with whether a wrongful conviction occurred 36 years ago.

The University of Texas fraternity ordered to pay $16 million in a wrongful death case will get a new trial. The fraternity was sued by the parents of Tyler Cross, who fell to his death from an off-campus dorm in 2006.

The family of Washington, D.C., lawyer Robert Wone filed a $20 million wrongful death suit Tuesday against three men who were indicted last week for allegedly obstructing the investigation into his death. The complaint accuses Arent Fox partner Joe Price, his partner Victor Zaborsky and their roommate Dylan Ward of conspiring to thwart the investigation and of "intentional, reckless and/or ...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A Kentucky widow who sued the U.S. government over surgical care she says killed her husband at a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital has agreed...

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Texas will get a new trial in the wrongful death case of Tyler Cross, a student who fell to his death from an off-campus dorm in 2006.

A federal judge will allow a civil trial to proceed against the Sandy Police Department, Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and the individual police officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in 2005. The suit, brought by the family of Fouad Kaady, seeks monetary damages for ...