A Vorhees, N.J., woman has been awarded $1.4 million in damages by a U.S. District Court judge in Philadelphia for serious injuries that she suffered when she was struck by a stage-diving singer while attending a rock concert at the WXPN’s World Café Live music venue on Feb. 23, 2010. The woman, Kimberly Myers, now…

While heading to his job as a public safety dispatcher in Tonawanda, N.Y., in October 2004, Donald R. Schultz fell on some steps as he made his way to his workplace, breaking one of his ankles. The injury was followed by multiple complications and 12 surgeries, which eventually resulted in the amputation of his leg…

Cayla Wilson was 19 years old and five months pregnant when another driver, who was high on methamphetamines and on probation for previous crimes, smashed a Jeep Wrangler into her Buick as she drove through a Portland, Ore., intersection in April 2010. The crash was so devastating that Wilson suffered severe brain damage and has…

As he drove his Chevrolet Cobalt in Mahoning Township, north of Pittsburgh, on Aug. 18, 2008, 22-year-old Mark McConnell II was tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time. As he drove, a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the road pulled into his path without warning, causing a heavy collision that killed McConnell.…

The family of a four-year-old Chester County girl has won a $32.8 million jury verdict against Phoenixville Hospital after the girl was born in 2009 with severe medical complications caused when two nurses didn’t call for help quickly enough when the baby’s heart rate dropped precipitously just before her birth. The lawsuit, filed by the…

In March of 2012, the family of a 10-year-old California girl took her to Kaiser Permanente’s Baldwin Park Medical Center because she was suffering from a fever, vomiting and shortness of breath. A day later, after being examined and released by a doctor following a brief examination at the urgent care center, she died. Now,…