As she relaxed on the backyard deck of her rental home on in Rossville, N.Y., on July 21, 2011, Lorraine Gallo leaned on the deck’s railing and was severely injured when the railing broke and she fell to the ground below. Gallo, now 55, suffered neck, back and knee injuries from the fall, which occurred…

Mazda Motor Corp. has been ordered by an Alabama jury to pay a total of $9.9 million to a young woman who survived a fiery November 2010 car crash and to the family of her 15-year-old passenger who was killed after being trapped in the burning wreckage. Following a three-week trial, the jury awarded $6…

A 27-year-old Lehigh County man will receive a $3.8 million settlement to compensate him for severe injuries he received when two tractor-trailers smashed into his SUV on a Pennsylvania Interstate highway in July 2010. Kyle Kelly, who was 23 at the time of the crash, was driving home from work in his SUV early on…

Toyota Motor Corp. must pay a $12.5 million verdict in California after a jury ruled that a victim in an SUV crash was severely injured due to a poorly designed lap belt in the center rear seat of a 1996 Toyota 4Runner. The victim, Chelsie Hill, who was 17 years old at the time of…

A 30-year-old California man has received a $950,000 settlement from the City of San Diego, Calif., after a city water department driver drove his truck into the victim’s SUV in June 2012. The settlement award to James Heath was approved by San Diego City Council members on Oct. 7, five months after the victim was…

An 83-year-old man was awarded a $5.92 million verdict by a Lackawanna County jury after he suffered paralysis of his lower extremities and a massively herniated disc when the driver’s airbag in his Mercury Sable failed to deploy when his car was struck by another vehicle in August of 2010. The victim, John Cancelleri, was…