Wrongful

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York judge on Monday vacated the conviction and dismissed the case against Jon-Adrian Velazquez, who spent more than 20 years in prison for a murder prosecutors now say he did not commit. “Who am I? I’m a very lucky man. I’m lucky that so many people believed […]

David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The estate of a Titanic researcher who was among the five people killed when the Titan submersible catastrophically imploded while on a deep-dive voyage to the site of the famous shipwreck last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $50 million in damages. The […]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A wrongful death lawsuit alleges a 25-year-old woman died as a result of “gross negligence and reckless indifference” after eating a cookie sold by the grocery chain Stew Leonard’s that was not properly labeled as containing peanuts. Órla Baxendale, a native of East Lancashire, United Kingdom, who had moved […]