Joyce R. Meeks had moved her family away from the mean streets of Chicago in 2000 to Lincoln, Neb., so they could live in a safer place. For more than a decade, she and her family enjoyed the quieter lifestyle in Lincoln. Thirteen years later, tragedy struck on June 25, 2013 as she was driving…

A Montgomery County woman has been awarded a $1 million jury verdict in connection with a car crash nine years ago that severely injured both of her legs. The crash, which occurred in Lehigh County in February 2005, caused serious knee injuries to Christy Carassai when the car she was riding in struck another vehicle…

There have been more than 60,000 lawsuits filed over transvaginal mesh (TVM) and bladder slings, medical device products that are used to address stress urinary incontinence in women. Devices are made of strips of surgical mesh and are inserted through one incision in the vagina and two in the abdomen. The plaintiffs in the lawsuits…

Trooper James Sauter was sitting in his Illinois State Police patrol car on the left-hand shoulder of Interstate 294 on March 28, 2013, when his vehicle was hit in the rear by a tractor-trailer whose driver allegedly fell asleep. The impact of the collision caused a fireball that killed the 28-year-old state trooper and devastated…

Sergio Molina was laying in the bed of a pickup truck being driven by an intoxicated 16-year-old boy on the night of June 15, 2013, when the speeding truck slammed into a vehicle on the side of the road, causing a chain reaction crash that killed four people. Twelve people were also hurt in the…

Complications from transvaginal mesh surgery cause serious physical injuries to women, including infections, significant pain, urinary problems, prolapse recurrence and incontinence. But the story doesn’t end there. Take, for example, Debbie. Debbie is a woman from Seattle, Washington, who was forced to cancel her wedding because she could not have sex without immense pain. “Because…