A Northumberland County, Pa., man has been awarded a $625,000 jury verdict after he received inadequate emergency room medical treatment at a hospital in 2012 following complaints of chest pain and breathing problems. The man, Charles Smith, who was 53 when the incident occurred, had gone to ­Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital in Coal Township, Northumberland…

A truck driver who was injured when a tire tread separated on a gravel truck he was driving in 2010 has been awarded $1.2 million in damages by a state jury in Arkansas following a trial in connection with his product liability lawsuit. The trucker, Elmer Philpot, now 76, was operating the gravel truck in…

The family of a 50-year-old Connecticut man who was killed in July 2012 when the car he was driving was struck by a police car that was rushing to assist other officers has reached a $2.9 million settlement in the case. Anthony Mansfield, 50, was killed when a police car driven by a Hartford city…

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…

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…