Written by Jason Riley The Courier-Journal

A Louisville woman’s estate has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Walgreens drugstore in Jeffersontown and one of its pharmacists, claiming she died as the result of getting the wrong prescription.

By T.J. Aulds The Daily News

TEXAS CITY — The Galveston County Medical Examiner determined a plant worker killed over the weekend died as a result of being crushed within a machine, a spokesman said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON -- Unlike many other businesses, the insurance industry is bound by law to act in good faith with its customers. Because of their protective role in the lives of ordinary citizens, insurers have long operated as semi-public trusts. But since the mid-1990s, a new profit-hungry model, combined with weak regulation, has upended that ancient social contract.

By Stephanie Taylor, Staff Writer

A Greene County jury awarded $1.5 million to a Eutaw man who was shocked by low-hanging power lines in 2006.

Ronald McCarter, 52, sued Black Warrior Electric after he was shocked while working for a paving company in Sawyerville.

The news media often are criticized for distorted coverage of the legal system.  But is digital journalism – news distributed via websites, Facebook, Twitter and other electronic channels – making matters worse?

By Peter Schworm, Globe Staff

A Colorado man whose wife died from injuries sustained in Andover on a swimming pool slide from Toys “R” Us was awarded $20.6 million in damages, one of the largest jury verdicts in Massachusetts this year.

By Denise Johnson ClaimsJournal.com

A doctor was awarded $3.4 million after jurors found that a Texas-based medical malpractice insurer committed unfair and deceptive practices when it wrongly denied insurance coverage after the doctor was sued by a former patient.

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, The New York Times

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle a lawsuit with a 21-year-old woman who said she was sexually molested as a teenager by a priest from India who was serving parishes in the diocese.

By Laurie Mason Schroeder, Staff Writer, PhillyBlurbs.com

A Bucks County judge has awarded $2.9 million to the family of a 14-year-old Bensalem girl who was killed in a 2004 hit-and-run crash.

By Brad Cooper, The Kansas City Star

The husband of a patient killed in last week’s medical helicopter crash is going to court, claiming the operator took unnecessary risks by running with low fuel.

By Stephen Nohlgren, St Petersburg Times Staff Writer

CLEARWATER — The 10-month-old boy was squirming on the day care center's diapering table. The caregiver — frustrated that he wouldn't stay put — bent his tiny leg back until it broke.

by Patrick M. O'Connell August 25, 2009, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

ST. LOUIS — A man severely injured in a pileup that killed three people on Highway 40 (Interstate 64) last year is entitled to more than $13.8 million from a truck driver and his company, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.