A moving company is being sued by a couple who alleges that they caused more than $72,000 worth of damage to their belongings during a move. As reported by The Louisiana Record, James and Kimberly Mathes Shepack filed suit against College Student Movers Inc., Fast & Affordable College Student Movers,…
As reported in The Louisiana Record, a local hospital is being sued for allegedly dropping a patent from a surgical table. Wallace Walker, individually and as a representative of the estate of Johnnie Mae Booker, filed suit against Ochsner Medical Center on June 30. Walker claims that Booker, his mother,…
After buying a home, in New orleans the purchaser realized a major fault was not disclosed to them by the seller, and has filed suit to rescind the sale, according to The Louisiana Record. Jouandot Enterprises LLC filed suit against Wells Fargo Bank in the Orleans Parish Civil District Court…
A New Jersey woman suffered first and second degree burns when a pressure cooker she purchased from the Home Shopping Network unexpectedly sprayed her with boiling water, according to a personal injury suit filed at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. As reported by The Pennsylvania Record McGowan, of Berlin,…
The Chicago Park District must post signs in its parks stating that only children under the age of 12 can use its equipment, a state appeals panel held last week, overturning the dismissal of a lawsuit stemming from a 13-year-old’s injury on a slide. As reported by the Cook County…
The Atlanta Braves baseball team has asked an appeals court to find the team not liable for the serious injuries suffered by a 6-year-old girl who was struck by a ball. As reported in the Insurance Journal, attorneys for the team want the Georgia Court of Appeals to apply what’s…
A Vermont woman who was hurt trying to protect her daughter from a malfunctioning July 4 fireworks display can continue her negligence lawsuit, a New York appeals court ruled. As reported in Courthouse News, Lisa Evarts and her family were attending a fireworks show in Ticonderoga, N.Y. in 2008. The…
After a woman died in a hang gliding accident, a launch site operator “swallowed the memory card from his video camera affixed to the hang glider, for the purpose of destroying evidence,” the woman’s parents claimed in court. Miguel Godinez and Helinda Ramirez claimed in British Columbia Supreme Court that…
Antoinette Allison of Reynoldsburg, Ohio was staying at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Syracuse, New York in April 2011 when she went to the hotel’s Library Lounge bar. Syracuse.com reports that Ms. Allison claims that while waiting for food at the bar, she fell off of a, “wooden, high-back bar…
A Connecticut woman whose face and hands were ripped off by a friend’s pet chimpanzee in 2009, on Wednesday was denied a bid to sue the state for up to $150 million to cover her medical expenses. As reported in Reuters, the state legislature’s judiciary committee voted 35-3 against Charla…