An Oregon family whose 11-year-old son was killed in April 2012 when he was struck by a city bus in Vancouver, Wash., as he rode his bicycle has reached a $2 million settlement with the bus company. The boy, Benjamin Fulwiler, died on April 28, 2012 after he collided with the side of a bus…

A 26-year-old woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2012 when she was hurt in a car crash in Wayne, Pa., has been awarded a settlement of $725,000 as part of a JAMS mediation process. The victim, Jillian Schonberg, who was 23 years old at the time of the Sept. 12, 2012 crash, was…

A 25-year-old former football player for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas has been awarded $4.2 million in damages by a Nevada jury after it ruled that a doctor who performed spinal surgery on the victim erroneously performed his initial surgery on the wrong disc in the man’s spine. The medical malpractice verdict for former college…

The family of a 4-year-old New Jersey boy who was hurt in a 2014 car crash will receive a $100,000 settlement in compensation for the boy’s injuries. The child, Liam DiLeo, suffered a serious head wound when another car collided with the vehicle being driven by the boy’s mother on May 6, 2014 in Parsippany,…

A $4.1 million settlement has been reached for the 9-year-old daughter of a woman who suffered major injuries and was in a coma after a 2005 commuter train derailment in Chicago that left two other passengers dead. The child, Faith Poppel, was born prematurely while her mother, Renea Poppel, was in a coma following the…

If you go to a doctor and get questionable advice about a medical condition, it’s likely that you’ll go and seek a second opinion. So why don’t people think about getting second opinions when it comes to lawyers? Actually, it’s a good question that came up recently with a client who called MyPhillyLawyer in May…