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Plane Maker Says It's Not To Blame For Lidle's Death
Posted on 28 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) A lawyer for the manufacturer of the small plane that New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and a flight instructor were piloting when they crashed into a Manhattan apartment building in 2006 told a jury Wednesday that the victims, not the... Read More

Judge: $7.8 Million For Family Of Kentucky Plane Crash Victim
Posted on 11 Feb 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - (AP) A judge on Thursday ordered the family of a victim of the 2006 Comair crash to divide nearly $8 million in damages in the last lawsuit from the Kentucky crash. U.S. District Judge Karl Forester ordered the wife and two daughters... Read More

Teen Asks Congress To Lift Train Wreck Settlement Caps
Posted on 22 Mar 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) A teen-age girl whose father was killed in a 2008 commuter train crash in California took aim Thursday at a federal law that caps legal settlements involving rail accidents at $200 million. Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie Souser of... Read More

Law Center Prepares Lawsuit Over Mich. Oil Spill
Posted on 3 Aug 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MARSHALL, Mich. - (AP) A public interest law firm prepared Monday to sue the owners of a pipeline that ruptured in southern Michigan and dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, while residents voiced concerns to... Read More

First Lawsuit Filed Over Amtrak Train Crash In Nevada
Posted on 1 Jul 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

RENO, Nev. - (AP) An Amtrak train attendant filed the first lawsuit over a crash that injured her and killed at least six people in Nevada last week, as more details emerged Tuesday about the driving record of the trucker whose big rig plowed into the... Read More