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Personal Injury News Roundup
- In what is being called the largest civil verdict in Pickens County history, a jury has awarded $2.4 million to a man whose wife died of complications from gynecological surgery.
- Toyota Motor Corp. plans to recall about 700,000 vehicles because of a variety of safety issues. Chrysler Group also announced a big recall.
- The city of Park Ridge, Illinois has been ordered to pay $5.18 million to the estate of a 15-year-old Park Ridge boy following last week’s verdict in a wrongful-death lawsuit stretching back seven years.
- A Portland couple was awarded $2.9 million on Friday for the care of their Down syndrome baby, who they argue would not have been born if doctors had not been “negligent” in their pre-natal care.
- The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court has denied a doctor’s petition for appeal of a $20.5 million jury verdict levied against him and Community Medical Center in 2008. The case involved a Jermyn family who sued after their son suffered permanent medical problems when he was born at the hospital in 2001.