In Maryland, the personal injury lawsuit filed by Edna “Peggy” Payton-Henderson, the mother of William “Tipper” Thomas III, the high school football player who became paralyzed from the waist down after being injured during a 2004 shooting at Randallstown High School parking lot, will be tried before a jury in…
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office and the family of a Randallstown man that died after being beaten by correctional officers inside Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Center in 2005 have reached a $500,000 wrongful death settlement. Smoot, the father of four children—three of them under 18 years of age—was arrested…
A jury in Baltimore County is ordering Keibler-Thompson Co. to pay a Maryland welder over $3 million for a crushed leg injury he sustained at work in 1999. James Morris, 58, was seriously injured on his first day working as a welder at the Beth Steel Sparrows Point plant. Morris…
In federal court, a judge has dismissed the personal injury lawsuit against Smithsonian Business Ventures Vice President Jeanny Kim. The plaintiff in the lawsuit, custodian and Silver Springs resident Mary T. Majano, had accused Kim of assault. The alleged injury incident occurred in Downtown Washington D.C. at the Victor Building…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has dropped its lawsuit to collect more than $400,000 in health-care reimbursement from an ex-employee. Deborah Shank has a traumatic brain injury and now lives in a nursing home in Missouri. Shank, 52, sustained her catastrophic injury when her minivan was struck in a truck accident. She…
The lawyers for two Baltimore students that were implicated in the beating of a passenger on a transit bus say their clients are going to sue the Maryland Transit Authority, the Baltimore school system, and the bus driver. Each boy is seeking at least $10 million in personal injury damages.…
Nearly one year after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead and two dozen others injured, the families of most of the victims have agreed to settle with the state for $11 million. By agreeing to the settlement, they forego the option of filing personal injury…
The parents of Billy Wolf, a 16-year-old Arkansas sophomore, are suing the teenagers that have been bullying their son for the harm he has suffered due to alleged incidents of assault and battery. Video and audio evidence document Billy being hit and verbally harassed on multiple occasions. Billy, who has…
In Baltimore Circuit Court on Tuesday, 16 Ruth’s Chris Steak House employees filed a $64 million personal injury lawsuit against TPOB Pier Five LLC, the company that owns the Pier 5 Hotel where the Inner Harbor steak restaurant is located. The plaintiffs claim that they were hospitalized because they were…
38 members of the 2006 Duke Lacrosse team and 9 family members are suing Duke University and the North Carolina city of Durham for their handling of the high profile 2006 rape case that wrongly charged three men with raping a woman. The plaintiffs say they that they suffered invasion…