A Broward County, Florida Circuit Court judge has awarded $14.6 million to a 64-year-old truck driver crippled in a 2007 wreck, reports the Insurance Journal.

The truck driver was hauling sugar in 2007 in Palm Beach County when a driver ran a stop sign, causing him to swerve to avoid an accident which would have likely killed the other driver. The trucker's 18-wheeler left the road and overturned, leaving him paralyzed.

National Casualty Co. denied the trucker's claims. He then sued for uninsured-motorist benefits to help pay his medical bills.

The company is expected to appeal the judge's award.

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A former BP security guard who tripped and fell, breaking both feet, when walking out of a portable toilet four years ago has been awarded $743,000 for her injuries by a Galveston jury, according to Galveston County’s The Daily News.

In 2005, the guard tripped outside the toilet near the BP chemical docks on a grate that she alleged was not installed properly. The woman alleged she suffered a permanent disability due to the accident and can no longer work as a security guard and is now driving a school bus.

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The IndyStar reports a jury has awarded $5 million to a woman whose ruptured diaphragm was misdiagnosed as a urinary tract infection at Methodist Hospital in 2000. Her attorneys claim this happened through a series of miscommunications about her x-rays.

As her condition deteriorated, she saw more doctors looking for a correct diagnosis, the newspaper reports. Emergency surgery confirmed the ruptured diaphragm. The woman has had to have six more surgeries and expects further complications. She has to limit her food intake to avoid vomiting and she can no longer work.

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Alleged Misdiagnosis of Ruptured Diaphragm

The Houston Chronicle reports an $80 million settlement for the families of 23 Bellaire nursing home residents who died in a bus fire while evacuating from Hurricane Rita in September 2005.

Sunrise Senior Living Services of McLean, Va., owners of Bellaire, ordered evacuation of the facility to a sister facility in Dallas the week before Hurricane Rita. While in route to Dallas, the bus caught fire and the 23 residents died, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration later determined the probable cause of the fire was insufficient lubrication of a rear axle. The axle overheated, causing a fire which quickly filled the bus with flames and heavy smoke.

The settlement includes an agreement to end a lawsuit against the nursing home’s corporate owner.

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The local CBS news channel in San Francisco reports the San Francisco Zoo has reached a $900,000 lawsuit settlement with two brothers who survived an attack by an escaped tiger on Christmas Day, 2007. The tiger killed their friend.

The 250-pound Siberian tiger jumped from its enclosure, mauled a 17-year-old to death and attacked the brothers. The tiger was shot and killed by police.

A lawsuit was brought against the San Francisco Zoological Society, the city of San Francisco, and a zoo spokesman last November. The lawsuit alleged the zoo had been negligent.

The family of the deceased boy has also reached a settlement with the zoo for an undisclosed amount.

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The Arizona Daily Star reports two Tucson sisters whose parents were murdered by their grandson in 2005 will receive $1.5 million.

The sisters filed the wrongful death lawsuit against the grandson's doctor, COPE Community Services, and Community Partnership of Southern Arizona for allowing him to remain in the care of the family instead of putting him in a mental health facility.

The physician settled with the sisters, but COPE and CPSA allowed the charges to go to trial. The jury found those organizations 50 percent responsible for the award amount, the doctor 25 percent responsible, and the grandson 25 percent responsible.

The grandson is serving two concurrent life sentences in the Arizona State Hospital.

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CBS News reports five men are dead in Louisiana after their 24-foot aluminum boat ran under one end of a barge about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans.

The men had planned to take part in a weekend fishing tournament when their boat hit the moored barge late Wednesday night but the bodies were not found until Thursday morning.Investigators do not know if the barge was lit at the time of the accident. Apparently the men hit their heads on the barge’s slanting underside. Approximately 3,000 entered in the fishing contest, which began on Friday.

Recreational boat crashes are governed by a number of city, county, and state laws. If you have been injured in any kind of a boat crash you may have the right to compensation for a number of things. In the extremely unfortunate event that a loved one's death has resulted from a boating accident, you may have a wrongful death claim.

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