Central DuPage Hospital in Illinois has agreed to a $5.3 million settlement with the husband of a woman who died of a stroke in 2006. The suit claimed to doctors “failed to properly evaluate and treat” the woman in December 2006, which lead to her death. Lawyers for the doctors said the doctors did nothing wrong, but that they settled to “avoid even the small risk of a runaway jury verdict.”

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 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 over the death of a Dolton, Ill., teenager who was hit by a car during a police chase last August. The suit claims that Cook County officers were “recklessly” pursuing a suspect through a Dolton neighborhood at dangerously high speeds without proper authorization. KThe boy was riding his bike in the neighborhood when he was hit by the car, which was traveling at around 70 mph. The suit is seeking unspecified damages from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department and the Dolton Police Department

The city of Atlanta, Georgia has agreed to a $4.9 million settlement with the family of a woman who was killed by police during an illegal raid of her home in 2006. Officers busted down the woman’s door after an informant said he had purchased drugs from her home. The woman fired one shot off before being gunned down by police, who then planted drugs in her home when none were found there, the suit alleged. Since the incident, five former police officers have been imprisoned for conspiring to violate the woman’s rights.

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

The family of a deceased University of North Florida professor will receive a $6.2 million settlement from a local hospital after the professor died during a CT scan. The man had gastric bypass surgery at Shands at the University of Florida hospital in 2002. Days after the surgery, he began having trouble breathing. The suit claims he was sent to have a CT scan of his lungs despite his troubles breathing while lying down.

The Washington Department of Corrections has agreed to settle a $4.25 million with a local woman who was hit by a car driven by a mentally ill felon. The woman suffered severe brain injuries from the accident, which occurred in June 2008. The lawsuit claimed that the department should have been keeping a closer watch on the felon, who lawyers called a “dangerous mentally ill offender.” At the time of the accident, the felon was on release and under the DOC’s supervision for committing a similar crime.

A lawsuit has been filed in the death of two students in a boating accident in July on the Delaware River. The two students were caught underneath the boat after a barge crashed into a tour boat whose engine had stalled. The lawsuit accuses our operator Ride the Ducks and tugboat operator K-Sea Transportation Partners of negligence and wrongful death. The suit seeks unspecified damages.