Jury delivers verdict in fireworks mishap

A Virginia fireworks show ended in disaster after a high-powered "salute" rocket careened into a crowd in 2007. Kathryn Hollis was one of those who suffered severe burns to her head, face, arms and torso and also penetrating shrapnel wounds when a shell exploded next to her. She filed a civil suit against Schaefer Pyrotechnics, the Pennsylvania company that worked the show and several others that

Deadly chicken pox case results in medical malpractice verdict

Michelle Koenig, a 20-year-old Illinois woman, went to the hospital with a skin ailment. An emergency room doctor at Provena St. Mary's Hospital told her that she had a rash and sent her home. Two days later she was dead. The rash, it turned out, was chicken pox, a serious case of the virus that spread to her liver and killed Koenig. A jury recently returned a $1.5 million verdict in the medical