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"Wrongful Death" is a term lawyers use; it means a claim, for money, against a person who has caused the death of a close family member, usually a spouse or parent or a child. In most states a...

Jodi Woods was a student at the University of Tennessee, studying to be a teacher. In June 2006 she felt so sick that she went to the Emergency Department at Community Hospital in Martin, Tennessee. She told the staff that she had a severe headache (she described it as "the worst in her life"), and had other symptoms of bacterial meningitis, a life-threatening infection of tissue around the...

The family of Helen Edwards has filed a wrongful death lawsuit based on nursing home abuse againt Manor Care, a nursing and rehabilitation facility, following Ms. Edwards' death. Ms. Edwards was a resident of the facility for four weeks and, according to the family's attorney, during that time she developed an infected State IV pressure sore and other problems that led to her death. The...

A jury in Anne Arundel County awarded more than $4 million in a wrongful death suit by the parents of a 5 year onld child who drowned in a country club swiming pool. The child, Connor Freed, was found floating face-down in the pool, and was taken to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he died on June 22, 2006. Connor's parents, Thomas Freed and Debra Webber, brought the suit against DRD Pool...

Demetrio Nagtalon rented a truck from U-Haul in San Francisco in December 2006, to move equipment from a video store he operated. When he had problems with the truck's parking brake, he drove it back to the U-Haul rental center for help. Bobby Johnson, a U-Haul employee, slid under the dashboard with pliers, trying to fix the parking brake. Instead of a repaired truck, Nagtalon ended up with a...

Tyler O'Neil, a two-year-old survivor of a fatal automobile accident that killed his father, mother and brother, has filed a wrongful death suit against the driver and owner of the tow truck company that killed his family. The driver, Cynthia Charlebois, was southbound on South Chambers Road in Aurora Colorado. Charlebois lost control of her truck, side-swipped a parked car then crossed the...

A Texas family has filed a wrongful death claim against Yamaha, followoing the death of their 9 year old son. J.T. Crow was killed on June 22 when the Yamaha Rhino he was riding in rolled over during a low-speed turn, pinning him under the vehicle and causing severe head trauma. J.T.'s mother, Heidi, says she's filing the claim against Yamaha to force changes to the design of the top-heavy...

The family of a Sebastopol teenager killed by Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputies has filed a wrongful death claim agailnst Sonoma County, the deputies, Sonoma County Sheriff's Department and others. The family of the slain teenager says the deputies used unnecessary force, causing the death. Sonoma County Sheriff Bill Coghill says the deputies used only the amount of force needed in a...

The parents of a Waco teacher have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her husband, a minister. The parents allege that the fomer pastor of a Baptist church in Lorena, Texas was having an affair, and that he killed his wife and made it look like suicide. They say newly discovered evidence shows that the victim's death was murder, not suicide. An inquest into the death has been ordered, and 11...

A jury awarded $25.8 million on Friday to the family of Beth Hippely, who died as a result of a prescription error at a Walgreen's pharmacy. The victim had the prescription filled at a Walgreen pharmacy in 2002. A pharmacy technician gave her the wrong medication, and she developed a stroke and died several years later. Her family filed a wrongful death suit in 2003, claiming that the pharmacy...

A 76 year old Kern County woman died from West Nile virus, the third West Nile death in Kern County this year. Although there is nothing to suggest wrongdoing by Kern County officials, that is not the case in Butte County. In Chico, a woman whose husband died from West Nile has filed a wrongful death suit against the City, claiming that the City knew of an increased risk of infection because of...

A Chicago woman whose son was killed during a police chase has sued the City for wrongful death, claiming the officers executed her son. The mother of 18-year-old Aaron Harrison alleges her son was unarmed when an officer chased and shot him in an alley on Chicago's West Side on Aug. 6. Police have said Harrison pointed a 9 mm handgun at the officer and was shot after he ignored orders to drop...

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Anderson Hospital in Maryville, Illinois. A man died there in March of 2006 and his family claims the hospital was negligent in his treatment and that led to his death. According to Kusmierczak, Anderson negligently and carelessly failed to notify Scott's physician of no bowel sounds prior to starting him on a clear liquid diet on the date of...