Dozens Injured In Philadelphia Trolley Collision
Two trolleys crashed on Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia on Wednesday, leaving 46 people with minor injuries, officials on the scene said. "Its like a bomb set off," one passenger told NBC10.
January 5, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Pennsylvania
Speeding Semi Slides Off Icy Curve, Plows Into Maine Home
Police said speed, icy roads and driver inexperience may have caused a tractor-trailer to plow into a house on Route 4 on Tuesday evening.
January 4, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
Maine
Many Minor Injuries After Long Island Rail Train Bumps Into Platform
New York City authorities say more than 100 people suffered minor injuries when a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block at a Brooklyn station.
January 4, 2017
Excess & Surplus Lines
Liability
New York
Lloyds Could Have To Pay Out $50M For Carrie Fishers Death
Lloyds of London could be paying Disney $50 million in the wake of the sudden death of Hollywood legend Carrie Fisher. The acclaimed writer and actress best known as the Star Wars franchises indomitable Leia Organa died Dec. 27, four days after suffering a heart attack while on a flight.
January 4, 2017
Liability
California
Lawsuits Settled Against Boat Owner Responsible For Marina Fire
Twenty lawsuits later, the dust has finally settled from an explosion and fire at North Shore Marina nearly four years ago. “Were happy to be done with it,” Marina Manager Jill Kinkema said last week. “We got to the point where we wanted to put that behind us.”
January 4, 2017
Liability
Litigation
Subrogation
Michigan
Passengers Sue Lyft Over Their Drunken Drivers Accident
Two Southern California women are suing Lyft. They claim the guy dispatched to be their designated driver showed up drunk and caused a crash that nearly killed them.
January 4, 2017
Auto
Liability
Litigation
California
Good Samaritans Help Rescue Two After Tree Falls On Car
Good Samaritans came to the rescue of two people after a car crashed into a tree causing the top of the tree to fall on the vehicle.
January 4, 2017
Auto
Liability
South Carolina
Runaway Dump Truck Hits Child, House In North Carolina
The man charged in the death of a 5-year-old Hillsborough boy who was hit by an unattended dump truck that rolled down a hill worked for a local contracting company with a suspended license, documents show.
January 3, 2017
Liability
Litigation
Property
North Carolina
DuPont Hit With $2M Verdict Over Teflon-Making Chemical
A U.S. jury in Ohio on Wednesday ordered DuPont (DD.N) to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from one of the companys plants, according to the plaintiffs lawyer Robert Bilott.
December 23, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Ohio
Unsecured Lumber Flies Through Windshield, Killing Driver
A 53-year-old man died after a piece of lumber flew off the back of a truck and smashed through his pickups windshield in midtown Tuesday morning, police said.
December 22, 2016
Liability
Escalator Malfunction At Brooklyn Mall Injures Seven
Seven people were hurt two seriously when an escalator at the Atlantic Terminal Mall in Brooklyn malfunctioned Tuesday evening. According to store employees, people were walking down a non-working escalator when it began to move without warning just after 6 p.m.
December 21, 2016
Liability
Subrogation
New York
Family Of Oakland Teen Killed By Tree Sues City
The family of an Oakland teenager is suing the city one year after a fallen tree limb killed their son at Lake Merritt near Fairyland.
December 21, 2016
Liability
Litigation
California
Marine Struck While Assisting Woman At Freeway Crash Scene
What was supposed to be the start of one familys Christmas celebration ended in tragedy early Monday morning when a Marine driving his family to the airport was struck and killed on the 10 Freeway after stopping to help a driver in a rollover crash.
December 21, 2016
Auto
Liability
California
BMW Crashes At Full Speed Into Responding Fire Engine
Interstate 85 in Concord reopened early Tuesday morning after a BMW smashed into a fire truck responding to a wreck.
It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on I-85 northbound near Exit 49, Concord Mills Boulevard. Troopers say the fire truck was on the scene of a crash and was blocking two lanes to help redirect traffic when the wreck happened.
December 21, 2016
Auto
Liability
North Carolina
It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on I-85 northbound near Exit 49, Concord Mills Boulevard. Troopers say the fire truck was on the scene of a crash and was blocking two lanes to help redirect traffic when the wreck happened.
Pulse Families Sue Media Sites For Providing Material Support To ISIS
Families of the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub shooting on Monday filed a federal civil suit against Twitter, Facebook and Google for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State and helping to radicalize shooter Omar Mateen.
December 20, 2016
Liability
Litigation
Michigan



