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A woman on her way home from the night shift caused a car accident when she apparently fell asleep behind the wheel and struck another vehicle, killing her father-in-law, according to police.The man, 73, of Bloomfield, was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident occurred on Indiana 54 in Southwestern Indiana.A helicopter transported his wife and passenger to Methodist Hospital, in...

A Marion County jury awarded a woman and her daughter $3.7 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit from the girl's botched birth.The lawsuit claimed that her daughter, now 6, will live with cerebral palsy for the duration of her life due to delays during delivery that deprived her brain of enough oxygen. She was born in October 2001, in St. Vincent Hospital, in Indianapolis.Indiana caps medical...

A truck driver, 47, of Chicago, was killed in a trucking accident near Indianapolis this morning.The tractor-trailer driver drifted off the highway and went down an embankment and struck some trees before going through a fence. A fence post flipped up, came through the truck's windshield and impaled the driver. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Marion County Coroner's Office, according to...

An Indiana man is facing up to eight years in prison for a deadly head-on collision two years ago that claimed a mother and two children and left two others permanently disabled.On Friday, the driver of the car responsible for the accident admitted he was speeding when his car left the center lane and caused the crash."It's a case where three people were killed and two additional [victims] have...

Starting next month, Indiana hospitals and doctors will receive a break on the rates they pay out to support a medical malpractice payout fund. It is unlikely that patient bills will decrease due to the reduction.On March 1st, Patient's Compensation Fund rates will be reduced by 19 percent for doctors and 1 percent for hospitals, according to the State Department of Insurance. The fund was...

A woman who allegedly unleashed her pit bull to attack a man missed her sentencing hearing, Friday. But, the Lake Superior Court Judge still handed down a six-year prison term.In January she and her co-defendant pleaded guilty to battery, a class C felony that carries a maximum eight year jail term.The incident occurred when a man came to the home to purchase Xanax. An argument ensued and the...

A Fishers couple died in a fatal car accident while visiting Warren County on business. The accident occurred when a semi-trailer struck their vehicle in dense fog, according to authorities."You couldn't see 50 feet," a Warren County Sheriff said of the conditions at the time of the accident on Ind. 63. "We didn't even reconstruct the crash because we had to get the vehicles off the road to...

High levels of staphylococcus aureus, or known as "staph", were found in several raw milk cheeses which were manufactured by Grassy Meadows dairy in Howe, Indiana. The products that were found to contain "staph" include Colby (lot no. 210317 and 19177), Jalapeno natural cheese (lot no. 2617, 21017 and 11017), "Homemade" cheese (lot no. 19267 and 19227), Monterey Jack (lot no. 18207 and 2937),...

Modine Manufacturing Co. settled a personal injury lawsuit, Friday that accused the company of environmental contamination at a manufacturing plant that the company operates in McCullom Lake Village, Illinois.The company has not admitted liability by agreeing to the settlement. Specific terms of the settlement were not disclosed.Modine Manufacturing said they would propose a class settlement to...

A widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Disney Cruise Line, blaming the company for her husband's death from injuries he suffered last year while on an 11-day cruise out of Barcelona, Spain. He died August 14th, he was 78.The suit alleges that her husband died because a poorly designed, raised threshold on a bathroom doorway caused him to trip and fall; because the ship's medical...