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Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. is asking a Washington court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit over the May 26, 2026 chemical tank failure at its Longview pulp and paper mill, which killed 11 workers. The company argues that Washington’s workers’ compensation law is the exclusive remedy and shields it from the widow’s civil claim. The…
A Pennsylvania tourist who says she suffered serious injuries after falling on the stairs inside Salem’s historic Witch House is suing the City of Salem. She alleges the city failed to address safety problems with the centuries-old staircase. The lawsuit, reported by Law360 on October 9, 2026, raises a question that matters to visitors and…
This is a developing story. Details below are limited to what officials and news outlets had reported as of October 10, 2026, and will be updated when the Erie Police Department or the Erie County Coroner’s Office releases confirmed information. A shooting and standoff on Friday, October 9, 2026, at a home in the 700…
A South Carolina court-ordered damages judgment arising from the 2011 death of 73-year-old Mildred Watkins at a Hopkins nursing home initially totaled $29,515,245.68. On September 23, 2026, the South Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the judgment in large part but modified the punitive damages on the estate’s survival claim. Based on the figures in the…
Rutter Mills LLP, a personal injury law firm in Norfolk, Virginia, announced on October 8, 2026, that two of its attorneys recovered more than $13 million across nine Virginia cases. The firm credits $8.2 million across eight cases to partner Adam H. Lotkin and a $4.85 million car accident settlement to attorney Georgina D. Montgomery….
Quavo and Offset may be called as witnesses in a legal fight between the parents of the late Migos rapper Takeoff over how to divide the proceeds of a confidential wrongful-death settlement. His mother, Titania Davenport, and his father, Kenneth Ball, disagree about how much Ball should receive and about whether Texas or Georgia should…
The family of Juan Antonio Obeso Soto has reportedly reached an $8.5 million settlement with the City of Torrance, California, over his death in police custody on October 8, 2021. The lawsuit alleged that Torrance officers failed to recognize and respond to signs of a mental health crisis and left him alone in a holding…
William Shives, 92, and Barbara Shives, 84, are suing Scout Motors Inc. and Richland County, South Carolina, alleging that construction of Scout’s Blythewood manufacturing plant damaged their property and forced them out of the home where they had lived for more than 40 years. In an October 2, 2026 filing, Scout denied responsibility, blamed its…
Women who applied for pallet repairer jobs at certain Birchstone Management locations and were not hired because of their sex may be able to claim money from a $445,000 settlement fund. Birchstone Management, a warehousing and logistics management company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, agreed to provide $55,000 to the female applicant whose charge started the…