A former construction worker has been awarded an $850,000 settlement after he was allegedly struck and severely injured by a forklift that was being operated by another worker at a job site at the Plymouth Meeting Mall back in 2008. Karl Lange, who was 56 years old when the incident occurred on Dec. 23, 2008,…

If something should happen to you, is your family protected? Do you have adequate life insurance coverage? And perhaps most importantly, do you have a will that states how your assets should be distributed and a living will that provides information about the kinds of medical treatment you wish to receive if the need arises?…

The estate of an 81-year-old grandmother who died when the car she was riding in was struck by a train almost four years ago in Orangeburg, S.C., will receive a $155,000 combined settlement from the Norfolk Southern railroad and the state Department of Transportation. The settlement was reached in the May 13, 2011, crash that…

Consumer products company Johnson & Johnson has pleaded guilty and will pay a $25 million fine for failing to maintain safe manufacturing processes in the production of Infants’ and Children’s Tylenol and Children’s Motrin liquids from 2009 to 2010 at a manufacturing plant in Fort Washington in Montgomery County, Pa. The fine and the guilty…

The family of a 37-year-old East Stroudsburg woman who was killed in a multi-vehicle crash as she drove her car south on Route 33 near Saylorsburg in March 2009 has been awarded a $1.48 million verdict by a Monroe County jury. Jennifer L. Holzmacher-Klein died in the crash when her 2000 Hyundai Elantra was struck…

The family of a 24-year-old Connecticut motorcyclist has reached a $1.3 million settlement with a school bus company after one of the company’s buses collided head-on with the motorcyclist in September 2012 in New Milford, Conn., killing him. The motorcyclist, Travis Lipton, 25, of New Milford, Conn., was killed on Sept. 24, 2012, after his…