The family of a then-15-year-old car crash victim who was critically injured in February 2003 in Lawrence County, Pa., has been awarded $18 million in a settlement that resolves a bad faith case against their insurance company, Erie Insurance Exchange. The case had dragged on for more than 10 years when the insurance company continually…

The family of a Monroe, N.Y., woman who died in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 83 near York, Pa., on May 30, 2011, will receive a settlement of $3.8 million to end a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family after the tragedy. Susan Gunther, who was a 53-year-old school teacher at the time of…

While visiting with other members of her college a cappella group during an informal gathering at a house in Philadelphia near the University of Pennsylvania, Lorna Bernhoft, a junior at the school, sat on a board across a raised fourth floor skylight and fell through to a staircase below. She then slid down the stairs…

When a metal piece from a heavy, overhead crane bucket fell to the ground at a construction site in Middleburg, Pa., on May 2, 2008, it struck a construction worker who was working nearby, causing grave injuries. The worker, 49-year-old Ray Doan, Jr., was struck in the back of the neck by a piece that…

After more than two years, the family of a 26-year-old Polish woman who was killed on a Chicago street when she was struck by a private tour bus in May 2011 has received a $6.75 million settlement from the bus company that employed the driver. The driver of the bus had cocaine in his bloodstream…

The families of three people who were killed by a drunk driver in Bethlehem, Pa., in 2010 have reached settlements totaling $12.7 million from a series of businesses and bars that served the driver of a pickup truck who caused the crash. The settlements were made to the families of the victims who were killed…