Residents and business owners are suing LIPA and National Grid for destruction of property after their homes were destroyed in electric fires during Hurricane Sandy.
The New York State Court of Appeals handed down a favorable decision for dozens of Rockaway residents and business owners on their lawsuit against the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid, LLC, according to lawyers representing the plaintiffs.
A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit that was filed against the manufacturer and seller of the weapon used in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The dismissal comes months after a judge allowed the case to proceed against Remington Arms, maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, as well as the distributor and seller. The families sought damages and relief in …
In the wake of the historic August flood, there has been a renewed interest locally in the plight of flood victims of Superstorm Sandy, which ravaged the East Coast in 2012. Some four years later, thousands of homeowners there have yet to complete repairs to their property, and tens of millions of dollars have been spent on litigation that has brought to light evidence not only of mismanagement …
The gun maker at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit brought by 10 families of Sandy Hook massacre victims has asked the judge for a second time to dismiss the case. The motion by Remington earlier this week in Bridgeport Superior Court is a common pretrial tactic in a case that is anything but common. The families’ claim that Remington …
A Connecticut judge is hearing arguments today to decide whether the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school tragedy can sue the maker of the AR-15 rifle that was used in the 2012 massacre. Judge Barbara Bellis of State Superior Court in Bridgeport heard from lawyers on both sides of the high-profile case. Some of the families of the 26 victims of Adam Lanza’s killing spree at Sandy …
Cara McKenna APTN National News ANGLE INLET – Members in an isolated Ontario First Nation are asking questions about whether contaminated water could be causing everything from a recent emergency room trip to what they say is unusually high rates of bowel and stomach cancer. The chief of Northwest Angle 33B First Nation declared a state of emergency in mid-February after radioactive particles …