In the United States, there is a higher percentage of people incarcerated behind prison bars than in any other nation in the world. Yes, many of them are murderers, rapists, muggers and other dangerous, hard-core criminals. At the same time, though, many are also non-violent, low-level drug dealers who have been imprisoned for long stretches…

The family of a 22-year-old woman who was killed in March 2012 when she was struck by a vehicle being driven by a drunk driver in South Philadelphia is suing the driver and two bars for damages under laws that exist to hold bars responsible for the conduct of their patrons who have been drinking…

Vehicle accidents happen every day, often injuring people who have done nothing to contribute to causing the accident which has ensnared their lives. Victims are injured when other cars crash into their vehicles, or when others accidentally run them down on sidewalks or in a myriad of other tragic ways. Yet learning after such an…

Three crashes involving loaded tractor-trailers that have tangled with smaller cars on highways with devastating results in Indiana and Texas were recently settled for millions of dollars each, providing money that the victims’ families can use to continue their healing. In Indiana, an $18.5 million settlement was reached in the deaths of two Michigan men…

The family of a suburban Harrisburg man has received a $1 million settlement after the 56-year-old Hampden Township man died a few weeks after undergoing hip replacement surgery in 2008. The settlement ends a multi-year malpractice claim filed by Charlotte Ann March, whose husband, Richard, died due to complications after the surgery, according to a…

At least six victims and families of victims in the Sept. 11, 2010, fatal crash of a double-decker Megabus have received settlements of up to $3.1 million to compensate them after the tragedy that took four lives on Onondaga Lake Parkway near Syracuse, N.Y. The widow of one of the victims, Ashwani Mehta, received a…