A Butler County jury awarded an $8.78 million medical malpractice verdict to a Butler, Pa., man who went into septic shock and lost both of his lower legs following surgery to repair a colon problem. The patient, Todd Wogan, initially underwent colon surgery at Butler Memorial Hospital in January 2012 to repair a a colovesical…

A $450,000 settlement has been reached between the Port Authority of Allegheny County and the family of two people who were killed in October of 2015 by a Pittsburgh bus that accidentally ran over and killed them both. The accident occurred when one of the victims, wheelchair-bound Henry Walker, was  crossing the street in front…

A Pennsylvania man has been awarded a $997,500 medical malpractice verdict by a Centre County jury after he experienced complications following back surgery in October of 2011. The plaintiff, Timothy Ahern, had back surgery to repair a herniated disc on Oct. 14, 2011, which was followed by an uneventful recuperation for 12 days, according to…

A $200,000 settlement has been reached between the City of Columbus, Ohio, and an Ohio driver whose car was struck by an ambulance that was being driven by a city firefighter in 2013. The victim, Tyrone Powell, suffered a broken leg and head contusions when the ambulance collided with his car at Mooberry Street and…

A Northumberland County, Pa., man has been awarded a $625,000 jury verdict after he received inadequate emergency room medical treatment at a hospital in 2012 following complaints of chest pain and breathing problems. The man, Charles Smith, who was 53 when the incident occurred, had gone to ­Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital in Coal Township, Northumberland…

A truck driver who was injured when a tire tread separated on a gravel truck he was driving in 2010 has been awarded $1.2 million in damages by a state jury in Arkansas following a trial in connection with his product liability lawsuit. The trucker, Elmer Philpot, now 76, was operating the gravel truck in…