A stop at local Wendy’s resulted in serious injury for a Williston Park, NY mother and daughter, who have filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit. Theresa DiMilia and her 11-year-old daughter Samantha walked out of the Wendy’s restaurant on December 4, 2012, when a car being driven by an elderly woman…
A New York man whose morbidly obese, wheelchair-bound wife died last year after she was denied a seat on three different flights home from Hungary sued the airlines on Monday for $6 million. Vilma Soltesz, who was reported to have weighed 425 pounds, suffered from diabetes and had an amputated…
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was ordered by a jury to pay $17.3 million to Robyn Cohen, an actress who lived in a building owned by him that caught fire. Cohen, who has had roles in “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” and “Burned,” claimed the fire in the…
Angelica Keller was on a Southwest flight to Houston last December when she ordered a cup of tea from the attendant. Since she was in the front row, Keller, 43, did not have a drop-down tray, and spilled the steaming hot water on her lap. Keller, a construction worker from…
A Massachusetts woman has sued the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire for $750,000, claiming that she suffered a severe ankle injury when she stepped into a hole in a city park. Mary Reed and her husband Richard filed the federal suit in the New Hampshire District Court. Reed alleged that…
With National Teen Driver Safety Week just behind us, the Department of Transportation has launched a new initiative to get parents and teens to talk about safe driving. Parents also should model safe-driving habits for their teens if they want to make a real impression, safety officials said. According to…
Nobody walks in L.A. – and maybe for good reason. According to a study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, cited by the Los Angeles Times, pedestrians and bicyclists in Los Angeles are killed at a significantly higher rate than in other states. In Los Angeles, pedestrians accounted…
When you rent a car from a major rental agency, you assume that it has been inspected and is safe to drive. Unfortunately, this may not be the case. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both D-Calif., are leading the fight in Congress to require rental agencies to repair vehicles…