Sergio Molina was laying in the bed of a pickup truck being driven by an intoxicated 16-year-old boy on the night of June 15, 2013, when the speeding truck slammed into a vehicle on the side of the road, causing a chain reaction crash that killed four people. Twelve people were also hurt in the…

As she drove her car through road construction along Interstate 10 in Florida on Dec. 19, 2009, Melicent Sanders slowed quickly as a construction dump truck dropped its speed precariously in front of her. But even as she avoided a crash with the dump truck, a large van behind her didn’t stop in time, smashing…

The family of a 55-year-old professional jockey who died in an on-track training incident at the Parx Racing track in Bensalem in 2010 has been awarded $7.8 million in damages by a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury. The verdict in favor of the family of the late jockey, Mario Calderon of Croydon, Bucks County, was…

After multiple and unsuccessful treatments by her doctor from 2007 to 2008 for a plantar ulcer on her foot, an elderly Philadelphia woman soon consulted with another doctor who diagnosed cancer which required partial amputation of her foot. She later took the original doctor to court, alleging that he failed to diagnose her condition in…

As she walked across a parking lot at the Ridley Park Swim Club with her grandson on June 24, 2010, a 69-year-old Philadelphia woman was struck and seriously injured by a large tree that fell from an adjoining property. Almost four years after the debilitating injuries she suffered, the victim, Maryanne Dunlap, has been awarded…

A Philadelphia jury has awarded $3 million in damages to the family of a toddler who was born with cleft lip and cleft palate after her mother took the drug, Topomax, during her pregnancy. The damage award against the makers of Topomax, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, which is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, was announced March…