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Earlier this month, a federal court of appeals issued a written opinion in a workplace injury case involving claims made by an employee that the allegedly negligent party intentionally destroyed or lost evidence necessary to his case. In the case, Schaefer v. Universal Scaffolding, the court held that a party claiming an opposing party intentionally…

An Ohio woman was recently awarded a $1.2 million verdict after a jury trial in a personal injury claim against a grocery store, based on injuries that she sustained when another customer lost control of a motorized shopping cart and crashed into her. As a result of the collision, the woman hit her head and suffered…

An Illinois court recently published an opinion reversing a lower appellate court’s ruling in favor of the defendant in a medical malpractice and wrongful death claim. The plaintiff’s claim had been dismissed by the district court because it was filed after the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims appeared to have run. The…

The Alaska Supreme Court recently rejected a plaintiff’s challenge to a jury’s verdict in a personal injury case that had denied the plaintiff relief and found the defendant was not operating his vehicle negligently when the accident occurred. The state high court ruled that the jury could have reasonably concluded that the accident was not…

A division of the Court of Appeal of the State of California recently published an opinion reversing a trial court ruling that had prevented an accident victim from pursuing a negligence claim arising from injuries he suffered in a crash allegedly caused by a paramedic who was responding to a medical emergency. The trial…

Late last month, the Nebraska State Supreme Court affirmed a lower court’s decision granting a grocery store summary judgment in a personal injury lawsuit brought by an injured patron. According to the opinion, a customer injured herself after she slipped on a piece of watermelon on the store’s floor. Apparently, there were individuals in…

The Supreme Court in the State of Rhode Island ruled on a case stemming from a tragic diving accident occurring back in 2008. The plaintiff, then 29, became paralyzed from the neck down after diving into a pond at a Veterans Memorial Park. The man and his wife filed a case against the state…

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island released its opinion in a personal injury lawsuit stemming from a 2011 “melee” at a nightclub in Providence. According to the facts outlined in the opinion, in 2011, the plaintiff claimed that he sustained a series of injuries after a fight broke out in a…

A court in West Virginia recently released its opinion in a negligence case stemming from a 2007 premises liability accident. According to the opinion, the accident occurred when a couple was attending a function at a park resort. While at the event, the husband leaned against a fence that proceeded to split, causing the husband…

An appellate court released an opinion in a medical malpractice claim brought by the estate of an individual who died while in the care of a hospital. In the case, a man was admitted into the hospital after complaining of severe right side pain. He was given narcotic pain medication but had a bad reaction to it,…