A Virginia jury has awarded $1.95 million in a lawsuit over the death of a woman less than two days after she received plastic surgery. The woman was sent home an hour after her July 2008 surgery even though she was having respiratory problems, dizziness and fever, the lawsuit claims. She died the next day of aspiration pneumonia. The suit accused the physician and his staff of completely ignoring the woman and her symptoms, which resulted in her death.

A Mississippi family was awarded $4.7 million by a Hinds County jury over the near-drowning of their two children in a local hotel swimming pool. The lawsuit accused workers at the Jackson La Quinta Inn of failing to lock the pool gate after hours and that the children, who both suffer learning disabilities, wandered in and fell into the water. The jury deemed the hotel 85 percent responsible and the parents 15 percent responsible

A San Jose jury awarded $30 million to a man who was sexually abused as a child by his foster parent. The lawsuit claimed that the man forced the victim into “600 acts of sexual abuse from December 1995 to March 1999.” The lawsuit also named foster agency the Giarretto Institute as a defendent, stating that Jackson should not have been allowed to be a foster parent because of previous offenses.

A Wyoming jury has awarded $3.7 million to a local man who developed lung cancer after 37 years of working for BNSF Railway. The plaintiff claimed in his lawsuit that years of breathing in diesel fumes, silicone dust and asbestos while at work caused his cancer. His condition is fatal. The jury found BNSF was “negligent and violated federal regulations regarding the maintenance and operations of locomotives.”

A Washington State man has been awarded $5.8 million in a lawsuit he filed against another man who shot him four times in 2008. The Plaintiff claimed in his lawsuit that the defendant shot him during an altercation between the two, but the defendant stated at his trial he was merely acting in self defense. As a result of the gunshot wounds, the plaintiff required 14 surgeries and has millions of dollars in medical bills. The defendant is currently serving nine months in prison for second-degree assault

A Florida jury has ordered a local nursing home to pay $114 million to the family of a 76-year-old woman who was allegedly abused while staying at the home, and that abuse led to her death. According to the lawsuit,  the woman suffered “pressure sores, overmedication, malnourishment and dehydration” during her stay at Integrated Health Services in Auburndale, Fla. The jury awarded $14 million in damages and $100 million in punitive damages to Jackson’s family.

A jury in California has ordered Caltrans and a northern California woman to pay $12.2 million to a 21-year-old girl who suffered permanent brain damage during a car accident in 2006. The woman hit the girl with her car while the girl was crossing the street at a cross walk at the top of a small rise in the road. The lawyers for the plaintiff argued also that Caltrans was responsible because they had done nothing to ensure the safety of pedestrians and drivers at that intersection, which has seen three similarly fatal accidents since 1991

A Connecticut woman has been awarded $1.3 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by her lesbian partner against a local oncologist. The woman filed the lawsuit in January 2006 after she was treated for the wrong form of cancer. In the lawsuit she also sought damages for her longtime partner, whom she had joined in civil union with. A judge initially threw out the woman’s claims, but a Stamford, Conn., jury recently ruled in her favor.

A jury in Maryland awarded slightly more than $2 million to the family of an inmate who was hit by a truck and killed while he was picking up trash on a work detail. The lawsuit alleged that jail officials failed to keep the inmates safe.

A former cruise ship trumpet player was awarded $1.7 million from a Miami jury after he slipped and fell while on stage on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Steven Pavone claimed that the fall injured his shoulder and ended his trumpet-playing career. The accident was caused by a bit of oil that leaked out from the on-stage fog machine, according to the lawsuit.