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City settles claim of police brutality $47,500 paid in 2006 lawsuit

by admin 3. March 2010 04:29

The city has agreed to pay a city man $47,500 to settle his federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that a Worcester police officer unjustly beat him with a baton while he was defenseless on the ground, breaking his wrist and inflicting multiple bruises. The police brutality lawsuit, brought in U.S. District Court by Trung Huynh, sought unspecified damages for illegal arrest and excessive force stemming from an incident outside Club Red on Pleasant Street in June 2006.

Mr. Huynh alleged that after one of his friends mouthed off to officers outside the club, Officers Andrew Cravedi and William Mosley, who were working a paid detail for the bar, chased them down. Mr. Huynh alleged that one of the officers struck him repeatedly with a baton and that the beating continued even after he was on the ground with his hands behind his head. “It was an egregious case because it involved the use of a weapon that resulted in significant injury, a broken bone,” said Mr. Huynh’s lawyer, Michael L. Tumposky of the Boston firm Hedges & Tumposky. “I think it reflected poor judgment on the part of the officers involved and poor training.”

Last year, the city settled at least three police brutality lawsuits at a total cost of $107,750 in taxpayer money, according to city records. The city paid $320,000 in public money to settle five police brutality lawsuits in 2008.

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Football star had sued after serious injury ended his playing career UGA athletics, ex-player settle lawsuit

by admin 24. February 2010 04:33

The University of Georgia Athletic Association and a former football star have agreed to settle a lawsuit out of court. Decory Bryant will get $400,000 under the settlement, which will end a lawsuit that has dragged on more than five years. The amount is nearly as much as the insurance policy Bryant said athletic association officials unfairly denied him in 2003, when a neck injury ended his chances for a pro career. The insurance policy would have paid Bryant up to $500,000.

Bryant asked for the policy, but a UGA Athletic Association administrator failed to turn in the paperwork on time, according to documents he filed in Clarke County Superior Court. Clarke County Superior Court Judge Lawton Stephens had ruled against Bryant in December, dismissing the lawsuit the former player had filed five years earlier.

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New York Law Firm Secures $750,000 Settlement for Bronx Man Injured in Slip and Fall Accident

by admin 19. February 2010 04:51

Seth Harris, partner in the New York City-based litigation firm of Burns & Harris, secured a $750,000 settlement for a Bronx resident who was badly injured while walking to work on an icy winter day in 2005. In the case, Salvador Figueroa v. West 170th Realty, Inc. et al (Supreme Court of the State of New York, Bronx County, Index No. 18242/05), Burns & Harris filed a lawsuit against the owners of commercial property in the Bronx on which the plaintiff slipped and fell on February 4, 2005. On that winter day, Figueroa was walking from his apartment to his job when he slipped on a slushy, icy sidewalk in front of the defendant's property.

He suffered broken vertebrae in his back and subsequently suffered a shoulder injury while using a cane for mobility. Figueroa, who was 44 years old at the time of the accident, has been unable to return to work as a result of his injuries.

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Acucutane Lawsuit Over Inflamattory Bowel Disease Results in $25 Million Verdict

by admin 18. February 2010 03:26

A New Jersey jury has awarded $25.16 million in damages in an Accutane lawsuit, which alleged that the acne drug caused the plaintiff to develop inflammatory bowel disease. The verdict was handed down this week in a New Jersey Superior Court, following the retrial of a case brought by Andrew McCarrell, 38, of Birmingham, Alabama. McCarrell originally won a $2.62 million award against Roche in 2007, but the company got that verdict overturned and the case was sent back for a retrial.

Roche faces nearly 1,000 lawsuits over Accutane, which has been associated with bowel problems, depression and birth defects. All of the lawsuits include allegations that Roche failed to adequately warn users about potential Accutane side effects. The company has lost all six cases that have gone to trial so far, with verdicts totaling $56 million, according to a report by Bloomberg News. One of those verdicts, with a $7.2 million award, has been overturned by a Florida appeals court. McCarrell claimed that he contracted inflammatory bowel disease after taking the drug for acne in 1995. He underwent five surgeries and had his colon removed as a result, the lawsuit claimed. The jury awarded him $25 million for compensatory damages and $159,000 for medical expenses.

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$95,000 settlement reached in bus mishap

by admin 2. February 2010 04:29

The family of a Lake County woman who suffered a head injury when her wheelchair tipped over in a county-funded transit bus has accepted $95,000 to settle the lawsuit, according to county documents. Katheryn Trent of Howey-in-the-Hills was injured Jan. 17, 2003, when the public transit vehicle in which she was riding turned a corner, the wheelchair in which she was seated toppled over and she struck her head.

The wrongful-death lawsuit claims the "severe head/brain injury" Trent suffered led to her death at age 78 about seven weeks later, though a death certificate filed with her probate case shows she died of a perforated colon. The payment to Trent's estate was detailed in a liability release, approved this week by county commissioners, clearing LifeStream Behavioral Center of financial responsibility for Lake's legal expenses.

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Settlement of $20 million from Playground Injury Settlement devastating brain injuries

by admin 28. January 2010 04:18

A settlement of $20 million was reached in March 2009 in the a lawsuit against Burger King for the devastating brain injuries suffered by a 12 year old boy in a 2005 fall from a play structure inside a Burger King facility. The boy was playing with his 5 year old sister on the play equipment when he fell hitting his head on the tile floor. There was no protective matting below the structure to protect against such injuries. The play structure had monkey bars and a fireman's pole clearing presenting risks of children falling from the structure.

The jury found that the restaurant should have provided some kind of protective covering on the floor rather than the hard tile on which the child fell. In addition, there were no warning signs around the equipment as present in other such facilities. Finally, there had been at least one other fall at the facility showing that the accident and injuries were foreseeable and preventable. The 12 year old boy suffered severe traumatic brain injury. The injuries are permanent. The child will require a life-time of medical and rehabilitative services. The jury obviously took these permanent injuries and future medical

expenses into account in the enormous $20 million verdict.

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