Andrew Racca was not in the courtroom Thursday when a jury handed down a $19.5 million verdict against him for the wrongful death of Carolyn Mattingly.

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The family of Yeardley Love will refile a wrongful death lawsuit in Virginia court and ask a Maryland judge not to dismiss a pending case about whether an insurance company must cover any damages awarded from the family of the ex-boyfriend who killed her in 2010.

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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates is set to approve a $30,000 settlement for the mother of a child struck and killed in a crash involving a driver fleeing from a police officer.

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A Baltimore city jury has awarded $1 million to the family of a 22-year-old woman who died after being improperly treated for a skin infection which developed into a flesh-eating disease. The family of Yenita D. Owens was awarded $500,000 ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. –  A veteran Henderson County judge overreached when he amended a jury verdict awarding $1 in a wrongful death medical malpractice suit and entered a substitute judgment of more than $500,000, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has found a pediatrician was not liable for the death of an infant, determining she complied with the standard of care when she examined him days before his death. The parents of Momodo Bundu, who ...

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The three-year deadline for filing a wrongful-death lawsuit does not start for children until they reach age 18, Maryland’s top court unanimously rules.

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The three-year deadline for filing a wrongful-death lawsuit does not start for children until they reach age 18, an attorney tells Maryland’s top court.

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The family of a delivery driver who died after being crushed last year in Baltimore by wood trusses he was about to unload from a tractor trailer has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the foreman who caused the trusses to ...

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The parents of a woman who committed suicide in 2013 while in custody at the Baltimore County Detention Center have filed a $15 million wrongful death lawsuit, alleging staffers ignored their daughter’s unstable mental condition and placed her in solitary ...

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