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A 56-year-old Port Angeles, Wash., carpenter has been awarded a $1.57 million medical malpractice verdict after he lost the use of his left hand and suffered permanent damage to his left arm after being misdiagnosed at a hospital following a workplace injury in 2011. Plaintiff John Pluard was working at a boat building company on…

The family of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in a 2012 vehicle crash in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been awarded a $32 million verdict in the case by an Allegheny County jury. The boy, Elijah Straw, was killed when the car in which he was riding was struck from behind by a pickup truck after…

The family of a California boy who had a leg amputated after being struck by debris from a nearby car crash while he was playing on a school athletic field has reached a $700,000 settlement in the case. The boy, Adrian Grajeda, who was 10 years old at the time of the Oct. 23, 2013…

A 33-year-old plumber and pipe fitter whose hand was severely crushed and disabled between the doors of a freight elevator while working as a contractor in a meat plant has reached a $3 million settlement for his injuries James Levering was permanently disabled due to the injury to his left hand, which occurred June 9,…

A Philadelphia-area woman who had her left leg amputated after a serious infection occurred following a double knee replacement surgery in 2010 has been awarded $4.2 million in damages by a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury. The plaintiff, Annabelle Glasgow, had the surgery after her doctor, Dr. Easwaran Balasubramanian of Temple University Hospital, diagnosed…