Hotel heir Barron Hilton will pay $4.9 million to a former gas station attendant in California who was hit by Hilton’s car during a drunk driving accident in 2008. When Hilton was arrested, he had a blood-alcohol-content level of 0.14 and was 18 years old. The attorney for the man injured said he suffered permanent disabilities because of the incident.

An Ohio jury has awarded $1.9 million to a Mason County police officer who was hit by a local woman while directing traffic. The accident left the plaintiff with permanent injuries to his leg, requiring him to walk with a cane at times and prohibiting him from ever being a police officer again. Doctors testified in the case that, because of his injuries, the plaintiff will only be able to work in “one percent of available job categories in this economy.”

A refrigeration and HVAC company has agreed to a $1.5 million settlement over the death of scientist at the University of Washington in a car accident two years ago. One of the HVAC company vans made an illegal U-turn on a Seattle street, striking the victim, who was riding his bicycle, and ran over him.

A New York man has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority after his arm got caught in the door of a subway train in Brooklyn last August. The man claims he was forced to rip his arm out from the door – breaking it – before he was smashed into the platform wall. The plaintiff suffered multiple fractures in his left arm as well as bumps and bruises. The suit is seeking unspecified damages.

A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $1.6 million to a local man who lost his leg in an accident while working in a grain bin in Kansas. The plaintiff slipped and fell while working in the bin, getting his leg caught by the drag chain in the conveyor system. The lawsuit contented that the makers of the conveyor system failed to provide adequate protection for workers in the grain bins and did not warn them of the risks of injury.

The family of a Salt Lake City man who was killed in a car accident in March 2010 has settled a lawsuit with the driver who caused the accident. According to the suit, Efrain Torres ran a stop sign and struck the vehicle driven by the victim, who died of injuries sustained at the accident. Per the settlement, the family of the victim will accept “the policy limits offered by Efrain’s insurance companies,” the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

A soldier returned to North Texas from Iraq only to end up in a fight for his life after he was involved in a motorcycle crash on a tollway in the Dallas, Texas area.

The driver of an automobile slammed into the soldier from behind while the soldier was on his way home from work. A vido from a tollway traffic camera shows the drive or a SUV swerving to avoid running over the motorcyclist and he was issued three traffic citations:  not having a driver’s license, having no insurance, and failure to maintain speed.