The family of a 27-year-old California woman who was struck by a hit-and-run driver as she walked across a street in December 2013 will receive a $2.5 million settlement in connection with the crash. The settlement will come from the federal government because the drunken driver was at the time an aide to a California…

As 2015 begins, it’s a perfect time to think about the year just past and how your insurance coverage is protecting you – for your home, rental property, cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, RVs and anything else that you insure against loss. January is a handy time for such a review as we consider the changes…

The estate of a young couple who were killed when a tractor-trailer rear-ended their car on July 1, 2013 in Pontiac, Mich., will receive a $1.37 million settlement from the furniture company that owned the truck that caused the deadly crash. Killed in the crash were 34-year-old Lonny Moore, Jr. and 25-year-old Kari Michelle Hinspeter,…

A group of more than 100 renters whose possessions were destroyed in a January 2011 apartment building fire in West Philadelphia have reached a $4.75 million settlement with the owners and property managers of the complex. The settlement, which was announced in a Dec. 11 story in The Legal Intelligencer, came three days into a…

A $2.5 million jury verdict has been received by the wife of a Perry County, Pa., man who was killed in a 2013 car crash with a drunken driver. The drunken driver, Jason R. Madden, 32, had been served alcoholic beverages in a local bar for more than six hours before getting behind the wheel…

Ten years ago, on Nov. 15, 2004, Gene Mikale Erickson, then 25, was killed in a car crash when his fiancé lost control of the 2004 Saturn Ion car they were traveling in and crashed into a tree near Tyler, Texas. The fiancé, Candice Anderson, who was 21 at the time of the crash, pleaded…