Wrongful Death Lawsuit Continues

NEW HANOVER COUNTY -- Tuesday was the second day of testimony in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Robert Hewson shot and killed his estranged wife Gail Tice in September 2004. Now Tice's family and friends are shooting back with a civil lawsuit.

Convicted killer, 72-year-old Robert Hewson admitted he gunned down his estranged wife Gail Tice nearly a year and a half ago at the couple's home in the Landfall community in 2004.

Couple Accepts $17 Million in Wrongful Death Settlement

BOSTON  --The parents of two girls who died in a 2002 gas explosion at their Hopkinton home have accepted a $17.2 million settlement from NStar Gas Co. and others.

Heath and Tara Carey filed a wrongful death suit against NStar Gas, Inner-Tite Corp., and landlords Leonard and Anne-Marie Pearson after their daughters, 4-year-old Iris and 5-year-old Violet, were killed in the explosion.

Suit settled for $400,000 in '02 death of patient

By Sara Eaton

A 14-year-old Fort Wayne boy will receive more than $400,000 in connection with the 2002 death of his father, according to guardianship records filed in Allen Superior Court.

A trust has also been established for the teen, Jakkob A. Herbst, outlining the terms of the guardianship his mother, Brenda Baker, seeks because he is a minor. A guardianship is typically sought when minors are to receive a settlement so an adult may oversee financial affairs.

Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Colonial Williamsburg

(AP) - The family of a Lynchburg man killed by a delivery truck in May 2004 has filed a $5 million wrongful death lawsuit against Colonial Williamsburg and two other defendants.

John C. Riley, 64, died after the truck ran over him in Colonial Williamsburg, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Newport News Circuit Court.

The lawsuit names Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Colonial Williamsburg Co., the Penske Truck Leasing Co.

Suit accuses frat of negligence, giving alcohol to minors

By Patrick George

The family of the University freshman who died of an alcohol overdose in December filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against his fraternity. The family has also announced plans to issue a subpoena to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office to release the student's autopsy report.

Phanta "Jack" Phoummarath was found dead at the Lambda Phi Epsilon house in West Campus on Dec. 10, 2005 . Attorneys for the family are now suing the fraternity's national chapter, as well as the UT-Austin chapter and all of its members.

By RENEE BROWN, T-R Staff Writer

One lawsuit was dismissed and another was filed in connection with the Aug. 26, 2004 , traffic crash in New Philadelphia that took the life of 36-year-old Brian Vanasdal of Dover .

A wrongful death lawsuit filed in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court in January 2005 on behalf of Vanasdal's family against 23-year-old Justin A. Meese of New Philadelphia has been designated as being settled and dismissed. No details of the settlement were available other than Meese was ordered to pay the court costs associated with the case, which asked for more than $25,000 in damages.

DYER | A day after Dyer Police said no criminal charges will be filed against Regency Place in the death of a resident, a lawyer for the dead man's family said the civil lawsuit against the nursing home will kick into high gear.

Dyer Police announced Thursday that because of a lack of clear evidence, the Regency nursing home would not face criminal charges in the burning death of Rodney Kenney, 72.

The announcement "won't have much effect" on the family's wrongful death lawsuit, said Dan Stephens, a Dyer attorney representing Kenney's widow in a suit against the home.

Doctor named in wrongful death LAWsuit

BY JIM MUIR

BENTON - Nearly two years to the day after Anthony Snyder was taken by ambulance from the Franklin County Jail, Peoria-based Health Professionals Ltd. and one of its physicians have been named as defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the 36-year-old Benton man.

A motion was filed this week in Franklin County Court by Carbondale attorney C. Courtney Hughes to amend the original lawsuit and add Health Care Professionals and Dr. Stephen Cullinan as defendants.

Retrial Underway in First Federal Vioxx Lawsuit
Krystal MacIntyre

[JURIST] The retrial of the first federal lawsuit against the manufacturers of Vioxx [JURIST report] began Monday in New Orleans with jury selection. The case first went to trial last year, but was Read more...

By Ann Knef

Melissa Kuebrich of Carrollton is suing General Motors for an alleged defectively designed steering system she claims was responsible for her husband's death in a head-on collision with a tow truck in 2004.

Brian J. Kuebrich, who was driving a 1999 Pontiac Sunfire, was killed Feb. 11, 2004 , after colliding with a Ford truck owned by Alton Area Towing and Repair and driven by John S. Urbanowicz. Kuebrich, traveling west on West Delmar in Godfrey, was in Urbanowicz's eastbound lane.