One of the men hit by an SUV in the parking lot at a PGA Tour tournament in Florida this year has filed a lawsuit against the property owner, driver of the SUV, and the PGA. The man was driving two spectators in a golf cart through the parking lot of the Quarry Golf Course in Naples, Fla., when the cart was hit head on by an SUV. The man suffered multiple broken bones and was hospitalized for weeks. The suit accuses the driver of negligent driving and the tour, the tournament sponsor and the venue owners of failing to provide proper safety precautions and lighting in the parking lot area where the accident occurred.

Two Chicago mothers have filed a lawsuit against the owners of their apartment complex after a bottle of acid was dumped onto their two children by another child in the complex. The women claim in their lawsuit that the apartment owners were negligent in leaving the drain cleaner – which was 93 percent sulfuric acid – out for the children to get into. The 13-year-old boy who dumped the acid on the other kids has been charged with heinous battery and held on a delinquency petition.

A lawsuit has been filed against South Korean game developer NCSoft Corp. by a Hawaii man who claims he became “addicted” to one of the company’s video games. The man claims in his lawsuit that he spent 20,000 hours over five years playing the game “Lineage II” and “continues to this day to have a ‘compulsive urge and need’ to play the game.” He also claims he can no longer “function independently in usual daily activities” due to his addiction. The man is seeking unspecified damages.

Jackson County, Mo., has agreed to a $270,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a motorcyclist who crashed his bike in a pot hole last summer. The motorcyclist was riding his motorcycle in east Jackson County when he hit a pot hole ankle-deep and as wide as his arms, his lawsuit claims, suffering serious injuries. The suit alleges the county was previous aware of the dangerous pot hole but had done nothing to fix it.

A Maryland man has filed a lawsuit against Best Buy’s Geek Squad after repairs they made to his computer allegedly caused it to shock him. According to the lawsuit, after Geek Squad fixed the man’s computer, it gave him a violent shock when he plugged in his printer. The man claims to have suffered “two injured arms, dislocated shoulders, and a need for physical therapy.” He is seeking $450,000 in damages.

Officers in the Seattle Police Department have been accused in a lawsuit of punching a disabled young man during a jaywalking stop in June 2009. According to the lawsuit, the young was stopped for jaywalking by a Seattle PD officer. The suit claims that when the young man could not produce ID, the officer began punching him. The young man suffered a broken nose and a concussions, the lawsuit claims and was released shortly after his arrest.

A lawsuit has been filed against a children’s learning center in Florida over the death of a 2-year-old girl who was left in one of the daycare center’s vans. The lawsuit claims the owners of the learning center were “negligent in the death of the toddler.” Lawyers for the plaintiffs said there were many things the center could have done to avoid the tragedy. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Baltimore County police department over the fatal shooting of a local man in February 2008. Officers fired 70 bullets at the man after he allegedly rammed one of their police vehicles with his car. The lawsuit claims the officers used excessive and unnecessary force in opening fire on the man.

A former employee at the Kleen Energy power plant in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against the plant owners over injuries he sustained during a gas blowout in February. The employee claims in his lawsuit that he and other workers should not have been required to be on site during a dangerous procedure known as a “gas blow.” The explosion killed six workers and the plaintiff suffered a serious head injury and permanent brain damage. An OSHA investigation found the conditions during the gas ventilation were “deadly” and the owners committed numerous safety violations

A lawsuit has been filed against a Houston funeral home over the decayed condition of a body they shipped to Uganda. The lawsuit was filed by a father whose son died on July 1. He claims in his suit that his son’s body had decayed to such a level that he had trouble identifying the body only three weeks after the boy’s death. The father is accusing the funeral home of negligence and is seeking unspecified damages.