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A jury has awarded a former Eastern Kentucky hospital employee $2.4 million in damages after she alleged that medical center administrators directed her to convince patients to have themselves ...
Two neighbors of a Kentucky plant that was the site of a massive explosion are suing the company, saying the blast earlier this month damaged their homes and caused emotional trauma. Edward ...
In a personal injury lawsuit in common law jurisdictions, the two basic forms of compensatory damages that may be awarded are economic damages, compensation for the injured person's past and future financial costs and losses, and non-economic damages, compensation for the pain and suffering which results from an injury. As many jurisdictions ...
Legg, the Supreme Court of California was the first court to allow recovery for emotional distress alone – even in the absence of any physical injury to the plaintiff – in the particular situation where the plaintiff simply witnessed the death of a close relative at a distance, and was not within the "zone of danger" where the relative was ...
Personal injury cases represent the most common type of lawsuits filed in United States federal district courts, representing 25.5 percent of cases filed in 2015. [25] Personal injury claims represent a considerably smaller percentage of cases filed in state courts. For example, in Illinois, tort claims represent approximately 7% of the civil ...
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Flaten was being held for warrants for charges of forgery, theft and possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver, according to the Tri-City Herald. Flaten was suffering from an undisclosed medical condition. Jail or Agency: Benton County Jail; State: Washington; Date arrested or booked: 6/6/2016; Date of death: 6/8/2016; Age at death: 40
Intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED; sometimes called the tort of outrage) [1] is a common law tort that allows individuals to recover for severe emotional distress caused by another individual who intentionally or recklessly inflicted emotional distress by behaving in an "extreme and outrageous" way. [2]