A Kentucky jury has ruled in favor of a local doctor in a lawsuit filed by a truck driver whose penis was amputated during what should have been a simple circumcision procedure. During the procedure, the doctor found a cancerous tumor on the man’s genitalia and determined it had to be removed. The suit claimed the doctor did not exercise proper care, but the jury disagreed. Lawyers for the plaintiff said the verdict will be appealed.

A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $500,000 to a Middleton, Penn., woman after a nurse at Lower Bucks Hospital left a sponge in her abdomen during a cesarean-section delivery. The plaintiff experienced abdominal pain after her procedure, which was initially thought to be simply post-procedure discomfort. It was not until two months after the surgery, the suit claims, that the sponge was discovered when the woman was forced back into the hospital with severe stomach pain.

A North Carolina family has been awarded $10 million in a lawsuit filed against Taser International Inc. over the death of a 17-year-old in 2008. The boy was Tased by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer at a local grocery story, causing him to fall to the floor and pass away shortly thereafter. The lawsuit claimed the company knew that if Taser was applied near the heart it could cause heart problems, but failed to warn users of the risks.

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 Connecticut jury has awarded a local couple $58.6 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit, a record for a single incident of medical malpractice in the state of Connecticut. The lawsuit accused Dr. Richard Viscarello and his practice, Maternal-Fetal Care PC, of waiting too long to perform a cesarean section during the wife’s 2003 labor, which caused the child to be born with permanent brain damage. The boy, now eight-years-old, suffers from cerebral palsy and is unable to eat, walk or talk.

A Michigan jury awarded $12.5 million to a local girl who was raped during an ambulance ride in 2006. The lawsuit claimed an attendant in a Superior Ambulance repeatedly raped the 14-year-old in the back of the vehicle during a 50-minute ride. The man responsible was found guilty of and sentenced to more than three years in prison.

A Greenville County, S.C., jury awarded $4.4 million to a local teen in a lawsuit filed against Duke Power Co. over a downed power line that electrocuted the boy. The boy was riding in an SUV that struck a utility pole during a rain storm in 2006. Two of the power lines shut down, the lawsuit stated, but a third did not. The boy suffered burns on four percent of his body and had to have several toes amputated.