The family of a 7-year-old child who suffered brain damage after falling from a third-story window in an apartment in a subsidized housing development in North Philadelphia has reached a $5.5 million settlement with the developers, contractors and architects of the development. The settlement will be received by the family of Rahniya Neal, who was…

A 43-year-old California woman has been awarded a $14.9 million jury verdict after she was severely hurt by the driver’s seat back in her car when she was rear-ended by a pickup truck in a 2012 crash. Marcia Gray was driving her 1995 Mazda Protégé automobile on westbound Interstate 580 near the Interstate 980 interchange…

The family of a 38-year-old U.S. Army civilian flight instructor who died in a 2010 helicopter crash during a training flight in Alabama will receive $8.5 million in compensation following the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed by his wife. The instructor, Jeremy Clark of Enterprise, Ala., was killed on Dec. 14,…

A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man who was forced to leave his job after working 30 years at U.S. Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh as a mechanic has won a $5.55 million discrimination award from a U.S. District Court jury. Albert Gucker, 61, won the award when the jury determined that the company unfairly acted on Dec. 28,…

Five people who suffered serious neck and back injuries when the Greyhound bus they were riding in veered off an Ohio Interstate highway in 2013 have received a $6 million settlement in the case. The driver of the bus had slumped over the steering wheel of the bus as it traveled down Interstate 75 in…

The estate of a western Pennsylvania man who died in 2012 from workplace exposure to asbestos products has been awarded a $1.085 million verdict by an eastern district U.S. District Court jury. The man, Valent Rabovsky, who was 86 when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2009, had worked from 1951 to 1986 as a…