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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 ...
In a lawsuit complaint filed May 30 in Fayette Circuit Court, the server, Kailan Flynn, alleged club member Arthur Patrick “Archie” St. George, “(demonstrated) gross negligence, oppression ...
Also, permitted the courts to defer judgment regarding a person's need for commitment, to the doctor(s) 14th 1979 Parham v. J.R. The Court ruled that minors may be civilly committed to mental health facilities without an adversary hearing; in essence, parents do have the right to commit their children. 14th 1982 Youngberg v. Romeo
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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 ...
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]
The homicide took place at the residence of Michael K. McKinney Sr., a dentist who owned The Seasons Inn and Restaurant in the county at the time, according to the lawsuit. Kentucky State Police ...
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 ...