New Legal News

A Federal Jury  has given  a man $10 million dollars by deciding his employer’s insurance carrier acted in bad faith when they turned down his claim for benefits from a  back injury.

The jury is debating  to also award the man with  compensation for punitive damages in additional to the 10 million.

The worker was a computer tech at Norwest Financial at the time he injured his back while  picking up papers that had dropped to the floor. He was diagnosed in severe pain, but his workers compensation claim had been rejected.

The adjusters say he had  two prior surgeries on his back. They claim the injury worsened an existing condition.

The 10 million dollar verdict was to assuage his mental and emotional pain after being denied medical assistance based on a bad faith ruling.

An insurance company has brought a suit against minister from Denver accusing fraud saying he filed life insurance claims on the congregation fraudulently.

AIG Life Insurance Company states the preacher and other co-defendants obtained a group life insurance policy on behalf of 315 people and doctored up paperwork to make certain that any claim payments would go directly to the defendants, and not the family of those covered by the group policy.

The company paid over 600,000 more than half of that was recieved by the pastor. Back in Novemeber the insurance agency terminated their policy.

 Knepper chose a doctor out of the yellow pages to do her liposuction, and then did   the procedure. teh doctor wasnt even a surgeon he was a simple dermatologist.

Of course she had some complications. SHe claims she wouldnt have chosen him if she knew he was not board certified. WELL CONSIDER LOOKING FOR MORE THAN A PHONE BOOK ADVERT?! Perhaps a certificate on the office wall? i dont know!

Of course, does she sue the doctor? Naw, she sues the phone book she found the doctor in! She wins 1.2 million for her and 375,000 for her husband’s (loss of spousal services) . What the ^@$@#!!

Barbara Connors is suing the very city that worked to save her.

In 2005 while a passenger in her son-in-law’s SUV, she became an unfortunate victim in a auto accident when her son-in-law made a mistake and accelerated instead of braked.

The SUV went into the Conneticut river, and she remained submerged.

The towns brave rescuers went into actions getting equipment and divers into place, their heroism saved Barbara Connors.

She is not thankful.

No, instead of gratitude shes suing the city. Barbara Connors suffered brain damage from her 29 minutes underwater. Now shes maintaining that if the very small town had a specialized dive rescue team she would have been rescued sooner and not have brain damage now.

BE THANKFUL LADY! these divers took a risk to save you and life is a gift, not a right.

Dougherty, 57 , was found glued to a toilet inside home depot.

He sued the DIY megastore for negligence as employees alledgedly ignored him. He claims to be suffering from post traumatic stress as a result, and says that during his toilet entrapment his suffered a panic attack.

He was stuck to a toilet seat  for 20 minutes before an employee entered, and then promptly left figuring Dougherty to be a prankster. Later he finally convinced another employee to summon help. WHen EMs arrived they were unable to remove him and so detached the seat transorting him to the hospital with a seat attached to his rump.

Dougherty asked for 3 million. Home Depot offered 2000.