Blog Posts in December, 2010
Posted on Dec 28, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
Toyota is going to shell out $10 million to settle a lawsuit brought in the fatal crash that set off a safety scandal for the automaker, it is being reported. An attorney says Toyota will pay to ...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
Residents of the De Anza Cove mobile-home park have reached a $3.6 million settlement with the city of San Diego for the poor treatment they received from a property management company hired by the ...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
The family of an Oldham County teenager who collapsed and died after a recreational soccer game has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against his doctor, claiming he failed to alert them to the teen's ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
A New York woman rendered a quadriplegic after a Cybex weight machine crushed her vertebra won a $66 million jury verdict that threatens to bankrupt the Medway company. Cybex International Inc. said ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
A California man sued the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Monday, saying the church failed to protect him and other children from an alleged sexual predator who assaulted him in 1988 in ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
Legal and public relations problems expanded Monday for Las Vegas nightclub and restaurant executive Michael Morton and his N9NE Group when they were hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit by a fired ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
Abbott Laboratories and two other drugmakers agreed to pay $421.2 million to settle claims they overcharged the U.S. for medicines, the Justice Department said. Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH's Roxane ...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
Wilmington paid $875,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the widow of a decorated former Marine who was fatally shot more than four years ago by police investigating the Pagans Motorcycle Club, according ...
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Posted on Dec 2, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
Single mother alleges that a sheriff's deputy touched her chest during a 2008 traffic stop, then followed her home and assaulted her in the driveway. The deputy faces a criminal trial in the ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By Joseph Tosti
For a split second, Matthew T. Hook appears to pause in midair, his muscles paralyzed by electricity, before plunging more than 8 feet to the ground, headfirst. "We had to Tase him," Perry Township ...
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