A Bronx woman plans to sue the city for $150 million, claiming cops “covered up” a hit-and-run that left her with serious injuries. Tishira Japa, 21, charges in a notice of claim filed with city Controller Scott Stringer’s office that cops knowingly issued a false accident report about the incident on W. Fordham Road at 4:05 a.m. on Dec. 17. A video of the crash shows a white minivan slam into …
NASCAR has settled a lawsuit by a fan who suffered traumatic head injuries after being struck by flying debris from a 2013 crash at Daytona International Speedway. According to ESPN, the suit stated that the fan, Allen Davis, was sitting in the upper deck, and “was struck in the head by a heavy piece of debris and suffered a catastrophic, traumatic brain injury.” The accident occured on the …
Texting and driving is illegal in forty-six states and territories. While most people would argue that the person texting and driving is ultimately responsible for their dangerous actions, one court case argues that cellphone companies are also at fault. California resident Julio Ceja has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple , claiming …
Elaina Brown is expecting her first little boy in November. She says her dad would have been so excited. “He was surrounded by girls and he always wanted a little boy and we are finally going to have that.
A Texa girl, 12, was injured by rope around her neck during an overnight campout with her sixth-grade classmates. (Photo : Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A Texas mother filed a lawsuit against a private school after her black 12-year-old daughter came home from an overnight school outing with severe neck burn. She suspected that her daughter was a victim of a racially motivated bullying, however, …
A lawsuit filed after the death of a teenager was moved this week from federal court in Florida to South Carolina. Olivia Paige Grimes, 16, of Lakeland, Florida, died after falling from a rope swing last year at Young Life Camp in Pickens County. In July 2015, Grimes was on a pendulum swing with two …
NEW YORK (AP) — Weeks after the first New York trial over General Motors’ faulty ignition switch controversy ended prematurely, a new one is set to start. The Manhattan federal court trial that begins on Monday is meant to define legal boundaries that may aid the settlement of hundreds of lawsuits filed after GM revealed that it had continued to sell flawed cars after discovering an ignition …