The death of former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling will change one of the 61 personal injury lawsuits against the NFL to wrongful death, his lawyer announced earlier this week. Easterling and six other former NFL players were the first to file a concussion lawsuit against the league. Now more than five dozen lawsuits representing [...]

Two families of deceased Gatlinburg sewage plant workers who were killed after a wall collapsed have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the city of Gatlinburg, the engineers who built the wall, and the structural engineering firm. According to the lawsuit, the families claim that Gatlinburg officials were warned more than a decade ago that an [...]

A Nashville family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a local police officer and the Tennessee Highway Patrol after video from the officer’s cruiser camera showed him driving past a fiery car accident that killed their son. Last November, a 20 year-old man sent police on a high speed chase. The man lost control [...]

Four more people were identified today after their bodies were found inside the Costa Concordia, a luxury cruise liner that capsized off the Tuscan coast last Friday. A total of 11 people have died and 21 are still missing, including two Americans. The ship was carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew members when the [...]

The family of a deceased 89 year-old man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their loved one’s former heart surgeon, the hospital’s medical staff, and the hospital. They claim the medical staff failed to count the number of sponges after the man underwent heart bypass and heart valve replacement surgery two years ago, resulting [...]

The family of a Los Angeles County inmate who died while in custody believes the jail was negligent in caring for the man’s injuries. Just days before he died, the inmate called his mother saying he was injured and not receiving medical attention. The sheriff claims the man was hit in the head after trying [...]

The family of a 22 year-old man who died after being pushed into a lake has filed a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit against his friend, the young man who pushed him into the Inner Harbor. They were on a trip to Baltimore when they stopped to stretch their legs. The deceased’s friend playfully pushed [...]