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…

Sometimes it’s expensive for companies to keep their workers safe, but frankly, that’s just the cost of doing business. Problems arise, and workers are injured or killed, when companies don’t follow laws that are aimed at protecting workers and when companies don’t spend the money to provide improved protections for workers. This tragic situation was…

Every day, innocent drivers and their passengers are injured when they are involved in crashes with other cars, SUVs, trucks and other vehicles that are being driven by other drivers who are drunk or distracted or doing stupid things on our roadways. These kinds of crashes happen when innocent drivers least expect them. That’s where…

A Pittsburgh-area woman was awarded $15.8 million in damages by a jury to compensate her after she suffered severe brain injuries in a 2010 car crash that happened as she was heading to the rehearsal dinner for her daughter’s wedding. The victim, Brenda Gump-Schragl, who was 52 at the time of the collision, was in…