The family of a man who died after tonsil surgery is suing a La Mesa hospital alleging an incorrectly adjusted breathing tube caused the suffocation death. The San Diego County Superior Court suit filed by relatives of 59-year-old Harvey Houtkin, …
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation reported the latest claims tallies as of today (Aug. 29) for five of the state’s highest volume insurers. As of 9 a.m. EDT, state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. reported a total of 3,118 homeowners’ …
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit that contends that the Monroe County Jail in Indiana is overcrowded. The suit filed in February by the ACLU of Indiana on behalf of inmate Trevor Richardson says inmates …
A government safety group is warning parents not to use a Pennsylvania company’s baby bassinets after babies in Kansas and Missouri were trapped and strangled in the product. The “close-sleeper/bedside sleeper” bassinets, made by Simplicity Inc. of Reading, Pa., can …
A former cheerleader has been awarded $14.8 million by a Spokane County Superior Court jury after a series of dental surgeries left her disabled and disfigured with her jaw fused shut. The jury decided that Dr. Patrick C. Collins, an …
A Multnomah County jury has awarded a couple from Boring, Ore. $300,000 in their lawsuit against former Oregon City contractor Wade McGilvra, whom they accused of fraud. Customers and subcontractors filed more than 40 complaints against McGilvra before the Oregon …
Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says Mississippi is part of a multistate settlement agreement with HealthMarkets, Incorporated and its affiliated insurance companies. Chaney says the state will receive $400,000. Chaney says 48 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico …
A wildfire burning through grasslands north of Billings spread to an estimated 30,000 acres and threatened at least 13 structures, including nine homes, officials said. Firefighters thought they had contained the Dunn Mountain fire to just 600 acres earlier this …
Fire investigators say a homeless man has been taken to a hospital for treatment of burns and smoke inhalation following a fire at what was supposed to be a vacant building in Elkton, Md. Deputy state fire marshal Joe Zurolo …
Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed an Allen County, Ind. sawmill. No one was injured in the fire at Black Creek Hardwoods near Grabill, about 10 miles northeast of Fort Wayne. Owner Joe Lengacher says he …