Keith, family, win wrongful death suit
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Toby Keith, his mother and his siblings have been awarded $2.8 million in damages in the 2001 collision that killed the country music star's father.
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THE family of an Iraqi civilian who was beaten to death allegedly by British soldiers while in their custody won a landmark case in the High Court yesterday that will have
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Actress Sandra Bullock's Texas  dream house turned into a expensive nightmare but on Thursday a  jury awarded her $7 million in a lawsuit against the builder.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A mourning family has sued a funeral home, saying it allowed the body of a 71-year-old husband and father to decompose for five days, until the stench of rotting flesh was so strong it sickened the minister at his funeral and dripped fluid from the casket...
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LOS ANGELES - The family of John Ritter has sued a Burbank hospital, accusing it of negligence in the death of the 54-year-old actor.    Ritter's wife Amy Yasbeck and his four children, including actor Jason Ritter, filed the wrongful death suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Sept...
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In what is being called a "wrongful birth" case, a jury awarded more than $21 million Monday to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems.
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TAMPA, Fla. - A woman who sued over the death of her baby, born over a jail cell toilet even though she complained of labor pains for nearly 12 hours, has received a $350,000 settlement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
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CALGARY (CP) - A Calgary man suing the Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses, claiming they contributed to his daughter&#39;s death by encouraging her to avoid life-saving blood transfusions, said Friday his lawsuit is for her and for his family.
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The sole survivor of a car wreck that killed six people was a victim, and a judge was wrong to convict her as an accomplice to drunken driving, an appeals court ruled.
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The family of Army veteran Keith Bender has filed a lawsuit against the estate of rapper Proof, who authorities say shot Bender before being killed by another man.
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Emmy-winning actor John Ritter, who died in 2003 after collapsing on the set of his popular TV sitcom, could have been saved with proper treatment, a lawyer for his family told jurors as the trial opened in their wrongful death lawsuit against two doctors.
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Even after the criminal case against crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh comes to an end, the victims' relatives are likely to be left wondering why 334 bodies were dumped and cement dust was passed off as their ashes.
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You could see it coming. The family of the late John Ritter has filed a wrongful death suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Ritter's wife Amy Yasbeck and his four children claim the hospital misdiagnosed Ritter's torn aorta as a heart atta...
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By Associated Press  JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick.
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By Rodney Foo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 22--The family of a Santa Clara County firefighter who was electrocuted last year while battling a blaze at a Los Gatos home has filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against the property owners and PG&E.   Capt.
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TAMPA, Fla. - After being dealt a blow by the Florida Supreme Court, the family of a brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die case still has several legal options as they try to save her life, their attorney said Friday.
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The family of a baby who died when a water tank burst above her head takes legal action against a council.