A Texas jury awarded nearly $100 million to the family of a man gunned down in his own apartment by a Dallas police officer who thought she was at her own apartment on a different floor. The jury awarded $60 million in punitive damages and $38.6 million in compensatory damages, ruling that Amber Guyger acted …
The family of a North Carolina woman who died at a Mexican resort two years ago has filed a lawsuit against her six traveling companions. Shanquela Robinson died a day after arriving at the group’s villa in Cabo San Lucas in October 2022, as CrimeOnline reported. Mexican officials initially attributed Robinson’s death to alcohol poisoning, …
Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought against him by the mother of a 19-year-old woman killed when his drunken son drove his boat into a bridge piling in February 2019. According to WCSC, Murdaugh’s insurance company agreed to a $500,000 payout for the family of Mallory Beach on the condition …
Country superstar Garth Brooks has filed a countersuit against a former stylist who accused him of rape, seeking damages for emotional stress and defamation of character. The papers were filed Tuesday in Mississippi, where Brooks had previously filed a lawsuit as “John Doe” seeking to prevent the “Jane Roe” from filing the lawsuit that accuses …
The mother of a popular YouTube star has settled a lawsuit filed against her by 11 teens who accused her of abuse and exploitation. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said the parties reached a $1.85 million settlement in the lawsuit, which was filed in January 2022 by teens who were regularly featured on Piper Rockelle’s channel, …
The parents of two California boys killed by socialite Rebecca Grossman in a hit-and-run are now seeking financial compensation after waiting almost four years for her murder conviction. According to DailyMail, Nancy and Karim Iskander, in a wrongful death suit, asked a Los Angeles judge to grant them access to Grossman’s finances, estimated at $20 …
The family of a Boston police officer has filed a wrongful death suit against the woman accused of killing him and two bars where the couple was drinking prior to his death. The suit names Karen Read, 44, and the bars C.F. McCarthy’s and Waterfall Bar & Grille in the the death of John O’Keefe, …
The family of a California woman who died last year filed a lawsuit claiming the hospital failed to disclose her death for nearly a year. Jessie Peterson’s family claimed in the lawsuit that Mercy San Juan Medical Center failed to inform them of her April 2023 death, leading them to believe she was alive and …
A New York man who filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for his wife’s wrongful death says Disney wants the case dismissed and moved to arbitration due to his previous Disney+ subscription. According to court documents obtained by Law&Crime, Disney is pushing to have the lawsuit dismissed because the plaintiff, Jeffrey Piccolo, …
A new lawsuit has been filed in New Mexico against those involved in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchinson the set of a western movie being filmed in that state in 2021. Attorney Gloria Allred filed the lawsuit against 25 named individuals, including actor Alec Baldwin, armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, and assistant director David Halls, …
American Airlines has fired its legal team after the company’s lawyers said that a 9-year-old girl should have known she was being filmed in the airline bathroom by a flight attendant. This decision followed American Airlines’ retraction of a filing from an outside law firm, which claimed the girl’s injuries were due to her “own …
A California police officer is suing a man over a month-long campaign of harassment against him and his family after he wrote the man a ticket for jaywalking. The officer, identified as John Doe in the lawsuit, says that Doe wrote the ticket to John Christopher Spatafore on October 25, 2019, the Fresno Bee reports. …
