A Providence Superior Court jury awarded a Cranston woman, who was severely injured after being struck by a firework almost $400.0000. The incident happened on July 3, 2005 at a Johnston, RI party.
The woman was hit on her right side and face by a commercial grade firework and...
The afermath of one of largest verdicts of 2006 has resulted in one of this year’smost significant court rulings in DeMarco, et al. v. Travelers Insurance Co., et al.
A Providence County Superior Court jury in 2006 had awarded $2.1million to aman whose leg was crushed in a pickup truck...
An employer could be held liable for injuries sustained by a passenger in a company truck driven by an off-duty employee, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has decided.
The defendant employer argued that because he had limited the employee's authority to use the truck, which the employee...
WARWICK — A judge dismissed the domestic-violence charges against former boxer Vinny Paz in Kent County District Court yesterday, rendering the initial conversation the alleged victim had with police inadmissible after the woman failed to appear in court.
“[Paz’s right] to confront the...
On the eve of trial, plaintiff's lawyer Mark W. Dana of Providence received a $550,000 settlement offer on behalf of his client, a 42-year-old father of two whose leg was crushed in a pickup truck accident.
Dana rejected the half-million-dollar sum - a decision that, in retrospect, proved...
