Jackie Monahan, a Haverhill, Massachusetts, woman has won $8.5 million in the wrongful death lawsuit against Alexis Ortiz, the 22-year-old driver who was speeding when he killed her husband Larry, 54, who had been riding his motorcycle outside their residence on March 18, 2006. At his Massachusetts Parole Board meeting…
A woman who has been charged in the motor vehicle homicide death of a female pedestrian she accidentally struck outside a car wash in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is now the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by Roger Young, the husband of Robin Young, who was killed…
The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a wrongful death verdict awarding $3.1 to the family of Quincy fisherman John McIntyre for his murder. McIntyre was allegedly murdered by FBI Informants James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi. The government says the FBI is not…
A federal judge is allowing a $105 million wrongful death lawsuit against Dateline NBC: “To Catch a Predator” to proceed. The lawsuit, brought by Patricia Conradt, alleges that her brother, Dallas prosecutor Louis William Conradt Jr. committed suicide because a sting operation accused him of having an online sexual conversation…
Approximately 87,000 Massachusetts drivers have been in at least two motor vehicle accidents from 2002 through June 2007. 8,400 of these drivers have been in three crashes. Some 1,100 were in four auto collisions. Some 220 people have been in at least five accidents. Yet a number of these drivers…
This week, attorneys involved in John Ritter wrongful death lawsuit began jury selection. The case finally goes to court more than four years following the September 2003 death of the beloved actor. The late actor’s wife, actress Amy Yasbeck, and his children are suing cardiologist Joseph Lee and radiologist Matthew…
Bert Hirschberg, a 90-year-old Boston grandmother and women’s rights activist, died while crossing Massachusetts Avenue when she was struck by a car. Hirshberg used a walker to get around. She was crossing the avenue, located close to her apartment, when she was hit by a Toyota. Heavy rains were pouring…
The parents of Zachary Cohn, a six-year-old boy who died last July after his arm got stuck in an underwater suction drain in the deep end of their swimming pool, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, Shoreline Pools, as well as several other defendants.…
The family of Catherine O’Donnell, the 86-year-old woman who died after falling from an operating room table at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the doctor, two nurses, an orthopedic resident, and an anesthesiology resident-all who were in the operating room at the time.…
A jury awarded country music star Toby Keith and his family $2.8 million in the wrongful death of his father, H.K. Covel, who was killed in a motor vehicle crash in 2001. Keith, his mother Carolyn Covel, his sister Tonni, and his brother Tracey were the other plaintiffs named in…