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On June 20, 2008, Richard G. Bennett sued his wife Lora A. Bennett (Bennett) for divorce in the Newport News Circuit Court of Virginia. On or before July 16, 2008, Bennett employed attorney Kevin P. Shea of Kevin Shea, Ltd. to represent her in the divorce...

Kenneth Kauffman was a long-time smoker who was addicted to tobacco and smoked cigarettes designed and manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, Inc., Lorillard Tobacco Company, Liggett Group, LLC, and Vector Group, Ltd., Inc....

James Edmond Sharon was admitted to defendant Belmont Lodge Health Care Center on March 7, 2011. Plaintiff Alice Franz, sister and attorney-in-fact for Sharon, claimed that defendant was negligent in their treatment of Sharon, including his suffering...

In 1999, Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. began selling Actos, a drug to treat Type II diabetes. Studies indicated patients who took Actos for more than twelve months were at increased risk for developing bladder cancer, but Takeda failed to properly...

Michael Mercieca, who was born in London, England, was employed as a senior sales executive for Microsoft Corporation. He was employed by Microsoft for 17 years. Mercieca said that he had a sexual relationship over a period of years with Lori Aulds, a...

Tatiana Mironova began working as a bartender at Da Marino Ristorante Italiano in September 2009. Da Marino was owned and operated by Pasquale Marino and Peter Rossignuolo. Mironova claimed she was subjected to constant sexual harassment and inappropriate...

On Jan. 8, 2009, Tiana Notice sought and obtained a judicial restraining order against James Carter, Jr., her former boyfriend, that prohibited him from contracting or communicating with her any way. Police officers allegedly allowed Carter to violate...

Defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals manufactures Aredia? and Zometa?, two drugs that are bisphosphonates and are used when cancers have metastasized to bone. Zometa? is the successor drug to Aredia?. Both medications are FDA-approved. In 1997, plaintiff...

On July 27, 2010, Randy R. Roginski, a 41-year-old man, was struck by a car and killed while he was working in a construction zone on I-271 in Summit County, Ohio. At the time of the accident, Roginski was working for Solar Testing Laboratories, Inc....

On July 14, 2006, the United States of America filed an action against the Wyoming And Colorado Railroad Company, Inc. (Wyoming R.R.) and a number of other defendants, including the Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust and Marvin M. Brandt, Trustee, in the...

On Sept. 13, 2009, Thomas Walker was driving a truck at a racing event in the annual Redneck Games, organized by Bithlo Motorsports, in Orange County, FL, when he crashed his truck into a bulldozer. By the time Walker's race came up, the track was...

On March 6, 2012, R.S., a minor, filed a civil rights action by and through her mother, S.S., against the Minnewaska Area School District No. 2149 and a number of other defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The additional...

On June 14, 2013, plaintiff Glen Abdu-Nur and his wife, plaintiff Donna Abdu-Nur, filed a civil action against more than 70 defendants. The action, which was based on Mr. Abdu-Nur's contraction of mesothelioma, was filed in the Superior Court of Los...

On Aug. 24, 2010, Luis Acuna filed an action against Riddell, Inc. and a number of other defendants in the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County. Acuna filed the action as guardian ad litem for Edward Acuna, a young man who had been declared...

On Sept. 9, 2010, Yvonne Hiller engaged in a verbal altercation with two other employees, Tanya Wilson and LaTonya Brown, at her workplace, a Kraft-Nabisco bakery in northeast Philadelphia, PA. Hiller was suspended. She was escorted out of the building...

In August 2008, then-sixteen year old Anna Rahm became experiencing back pain. Rahm's pain steadily grew worse and she began experiencing radiating pain down her left leg in January 2009. In February 2009, Rahm went to a chiropractor, but treatments...

On Dec. 26, 2007, Brandon Apela Afoa was injured in a collision that occurred while he was operating a powered industrial vehicle on the airplane ramp at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle. At the...

On July 14, 2011, plaintiff Colin T. Lacy was operating a 2004 Freightliner Model 16M truck on Interstate 10 in Walton County, FL. On that day, he had picked the truck up from having repairs performed on the anti-lock braking system at defendant Empire...

On July 19, 2011, Michael Bruno was driving a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado when the right front Michelin brand tire suffered a tread/belt separation. He lost control of the vehicle, and it collided with the rear of a disabled tractor trailer that was parked...

Carlos Chacon alleged that on April 29, 2011, he called the police to report suspicious behavior of several individuals. Chacon claimed that when Eric Copeland and Russell Rose, police officers for the City of Austin, Texas, arrived, they treated Chacon...

Beginning in August of 2003, Emily Herx worked for the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Inc. as a teacher at St. Vincent De Paul School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She taught Literature and/or Language Arts. Herx suffered from a medical condition that caused...

On Feb. 11, 2012, Kristopher Rongen, a law enforcement officer with the Washington Department of Corrections, went to a home located on 42nd Avenue South in Auburn, Washington to arrest an individual for failing to report to a community custody meeting...

Juan A. Rivera, Jr. was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl that occurred in 1992 in Waukegan, Illinois. Rivera was 19 years old at the time of the crime. New DNA testing showed that a different man had raped and killed...

On Aug. 31, 2005, Marc Jacobs was a passenger in a taxicab that was owned or operated by Yellow Cab Affiliation, Inc. and was being driven by Cornelus C. Ezeagu. Jacobs, a real estate attorney based in the Chicago area, was returning home from an evening...

Beginning approximately Nov. 15, 2013, and continuing until it was discovered on approximately Dec. 17, 2013, Target Corporation suffered a data breach of customer information. Hackers accessed the credit and debit card account information of about 40...