An 11-year-old boy and his mother have been awarded $14.5 million in damages by an Ohio jury in a medical malpractice lawsuit that dates back to the boy’s birth back in 2003. The boy, Alijah Jones, now 11, suffered a brain hemorrhage when his delivery was allegedly delayed by medical staff at MetroHealth Medical Center…

Joyce R. Meeks had moved her family away from the mean streets of Chicago in 2000 to Lincoln, Neb., so they could live in a safer place. For more than a decade, she and her family enjoyed the quieter lifestyle in Lincoln. Thirteen years later, tragedy struck on June 25, 2013 as she was driving…

A Montgomery County woman has been awarded a $1 million jury verdict in connection with a car crash nine years ago that severely injured both of her legs. The crash, which occurred in Lehigh County in February 2005, caused serious knee injuries to Christy Carassai when the car she was riding in struck another vehicle…

Trooper James Sauter was sitting in his Illinois State Police patrol car on the left-hand shoulder of Interstate 294 on March 28, 2013, when his vehicle was hit in the rear by a tractor-trailer whose driver allegedly fell asleep. The impact of the collision caused a fireball that killed the 28-year-old state trooper and devastated…

Sergio Molina was laying in the bed of a pickup truck being driven by an intoxicated 16-year-old boy on the night of June 15, 2013, when the speeding truck slammed into a vehicle on the side of the road, causing a chain reaction crash that killed four people. Twelve people were also hurt in the…

As she drove her car through road construction along Interstate 10 in Florida on Dec. 19, 2009, Melicent Sanders slowed quickly as a construction dump truck dropped its speed precariously in front of her. But even as she avoided a crash with the dump truck, a large van behind her didn’t stop in time, smashing…