A lawsuit has been filed against University Medical Center in Nevada which alleges the hospital did not provide proper treatment to a woman in labor, leading to the death of the child. The lawsuit claims that Latricia Richard was complaining of labor pains but was not seen by a single doctor or advanced nurse. She claims she was only given a sleeping pill and sent home. She returned to the hospital hours later in labor, giving birth to a premature baby who died moments later. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages. This is the second lawsuit filed against UMC this month.

Three Indiana families have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Bradford Schools and the owners of an apartment complex in which their three daughters died in a January fire. The cause of the fire was determined to be faulty wiring. According to the lawsuit, Dial Equities, the owner of the apartment complex, and the school, who rented the rooms out as student housing, failed to provide functioning smoke alarms in every room, safe wiring and an evacuation plan. The families are seeking unspecified damages.

A Virgin Islands pension fund filed a lawsuit last week against Morgan Stanley, alleging the bank defrauded investors by marketing $1.2 billion in notes that they knew were going to fail. According to the lawsuit, Morgan Stanley worked with a credit agency to bolster the ranking of the notes even though they were backed by low-quality, high-risk assets. The lawsuit seeks class-action status, and also seeks compensatory and punitive damages, among other remedies.

A Miami jury awarded a fitness instructor $9.5 million in a lawsuit in which he claims he injured his back by slipping on a wet floor on a cruise ship. The lawsuit claims that Danny Simpson became incontinent and impotent as a result of the injury that occurred on a Norwegian cruse line during 2006. The damages cover economic loss, medical expenses and future pain and suffering.

An Iowa nursing home abandoned a brain damaged patient at a local hospital and refused to resume care once the patient was treated, a lawsuit filed by the hospital claims. The lawsuit states that Broadlawns Medical Center informed the patient’s family a week after he arrived that he was ready to return to the Granger Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, but that they refused to take him back, which they say violates state and federal laws. The lawsuit seeks $76,000 in reimbursement costs as well as punitive damages.

El Paso County officials agreed Tuesday to a $56,000 settlement with a Peyton, Colo., man who was shot twice in the chest with a Taser during a 2007 incident. According to the lawsuit, Jiles Theron Bennett was shocked twice after being pulled over for driving too slowly. Bennett claims that the police officer involved used excessive force and that the arrest constituted an unreasonable seizure.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a tennis instructor has the right to pursue damages against a Coronado, Calif. police officer for tasering him without notice in 2005. Court documents show that Officer Brian McPherson shocked Carl Bryan during a traffic stop after he became upset. The court held that “the use of Tasers and similar devices must be justified by a strong government interest that ‘compels’ the employment of such force.” The court ruled that while the desire to end a tense and emotional situation was understandable, Bryan did not level a verbal or physical threat against

A lawsuit has been filed on the behalf of Penny Louise Prevezich against San Mateo County, Calif., alleging her 2008 death was the result of hospital negligence. According to the lawsuit, staff at the San Mateo Medical Center left Prevezich in a waiting area unattended for about 90 minutes, during which she died from cardiac arrest. The family of Prevezich is seeking unspecified damages.

NewPage Corp. retirees in Dayton, Ohio, are claiming in a lawsuit filed last week that the company has violated a collective bargaining agreement to eliminate subsidies for their healthcare premiums. The lawsuit states that labor agreements give NewPage no right to unilaterally shift health-care costs to employees once they have retired. The lawsuit is seeking damages to cover attorney fees and an injunction to keep the company from modifying the health benefits

Employees of Arrow Trucking filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the company in response to the sudden company shutdown without notice. According to the lawsuit, the company violated the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act by not giving their employees 60 days notice of their perilous financial state. The lawsuit also accuses Arrow Trucking of bouncing paychecks and failing to reimburse out-of-pocket expenses.