LAKELAND | The 2nd District Court of Appeal has upheld a $65 million verdict for a Wauchula woman injured in a 2007 traffic crash.

The verdict is considered to be one of the largest by a Polk County jury.

Isaac Ruiz-Carus, a Tampa lawyer who represented Lymon in the appeal, said Lymon's family is pleased with the appellate court's decision.

Super Lawyers magazine has named two Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. attorneys to its Rising Stars list for Pennsylvania. William P. Murray III, managing attorney for the Pennsylvania offices, and Peter Giglione in the Pittsburgh office, were selected for the prestigious list.

A Grethel man has filed lawsuits against a Prestonsburg rehabilitation center and a Pikeville hospital for the neglect and wrongful death of his wife.

LOUISVILLE, Ky/May 7, 2010/ - A Louisville woman has filed a lawsuit against two area nursing homes on behalf of her mother, who suffered abuse and neglect before her untimely death.

TAMPA, Fla., April 23, 2010/PRESS RELEASE SITE/ - Los Angeles law firms Girardi & Keese, and Wilkes & McHugh, P.A. have filed a class action lawsuit against several companies, including subsidiaries of Sony, Samsung, Hitachi and Toshiba, for price fixing and bid rigging in the sale and distribution of optical disk drives or ODDs.

Though she was 98 years old, the death of longtime Tucsonan Irma Smith was hastened due to neglect by staff members at Devon Gables nursing home, attorney Melanie Bossie told a Pima County jury Wednesday.

IMG Academies, the Bradenton training facility that draws students from all over the world who aspire to be pro athletes, on Thursday was found to be negligent along with two medical professionals in the death of a 16-year-old student.

DEQUEEN, Ark. - A Court in Sevier County decided today (April 17, 2009) that a family deserved $7 million for the neglect and wrongful death of its patriarch. John W. Minor, an 87-year-old DeQueen man, died after officials at a local nursing home neglected him to the point where his body was covered with 35 bedsores. The sores, many in advanced stages and infected, made it impossible to embalm his body when Minor passed away on May 2, 2004.

A Polk County jury awarded a 21-year-old woman $65 million in damages Wednesday in a personal injury lawsuit against a trucking company. On Aug. 21, 2007, Kendra Lymon was a normal 19-year-old woman whose life was shattered when an 18-wheeler, owned by Bynum Transport Inc., T-boned her little Dodge Neon at the intersection of State Road 17 and State Road 64

The surviving family of Cheathum Myers could end up getting nearly $30 million in punitive damages which were stripped away by the trial judge after jurors found NHC partially liable for the death of an 88-year old man.

A Westmoreland County jury started hearing arguments Tuesday in a wrongful death lawsuit in which the family of a 90-year-old Acme woman claims the nursing home where she lived was negligent in her care and caused her death.

The Tennessee Court of Appeals has sustained most of a $4.1 million damage award against Murfreesboro-based nursing home operator National Healthcare Corp., while denying the company's bid to relieve it of any punitive damages.

The father of a Fort Smith man killed when he jumped over the railing of an interstate bridge filed suit Wednesday against the driver of a tractor-trailer he claims is responsible for his son’s death.

The parents of a Fayette County man who died while trying to save his girlfriend from a condominium fire a year ago have filed a lawsuit alleging negligence.

The parents of a Rostraver man who died in a 2008 fire in a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium have filed suit alleging negligence.

 The parents of a Rostraver man who died in a 2008 fire in a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium have filed suit alleging negligence.