A $2 million settlement has been awarded to the husband and daughter of a 49-year-old Illinois woman who was killed in 2014 when the car she was driving was struck by a pickup truck that crossed the centerline of a highway and slammed into her car. The woman, Robin Wells, of Mascoutah, Ill., was driving…

A Pennsylvania woman was awarded a $4.25 million medical malpractice settlement from a Lackawanna County hospital after her twin babies were stillborn at delivery due to alleged improper treatment in 2009. The plaintiff, Jo Ann Page, alleged in her lawsuit against Moses Taylor Hospital that the babies were stillborn because doctors failed to properly treat…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman speaks with Dr. Benjamin Benjamini on everything chiropractor-related.

A 46-year-old Rochester, Wash., motorcyclist who was critically injured in April 2015 when his motorcycle collided with a construction dump truck in the early morning darkness in a highway construction zone has received an $18.5 million settlement to cover his future medical care. The motorcyclist, Scott Bliss, was riding his motorcycle at 5:20 a.m. on…

The family of a 90-year-old Philadelphia man who died two weeks after he was struck and run over by a tractor-trailer in the city’s Northeast in 2014 has reached a $4.5 million settlement with the driver of the vehicle and the company that owned it. The victim, Martin Lisker, was struck by the truck as…

Workers’ compensation is a no fault system; if you are injured on the job, you are entitled to benefits regardless of whether your employer’s negligence caused your injuries. The system aims to provide compensation for injured workers without focusing on who is to blame. However, the fact that you don’t have to demonstrate that the…