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…

Complications from transvaginal mesh surgery cause serious physical injuries to women, including infections, significant pain, urinary problems, prolapse recurrence and incontinence. But the story doesn’t end there. Take, for example, Debbie. Debbie is a woman from Seattle, Washington, who was forced to cancel her wedding because she could not have sex without immense pain. “Because…

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…

The family of a 55-year-old professional jockey who died in an on-track training incident at the Parx Racing track in Bensalem in 2010 has been awarded $7.8 million in damages by a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury. The verdict in favor of the family of the late jockey, Mario Calderon of Croydon, Bucks County, was…

As she was walking across an intersection in New York City in 2008, Brooklyn resident Shirley Miller, then 32, was struck by a Duane Reed drug store truck, causing massive injuries that left her with brain damage, speech impairments and blindness. The incident occurred on her birthday. Almost six years after that devastating day, Miller…