SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) - The Utah Supreme Court upheld a $4 million jury verdict for children who claim doctors misled them into removing their mother from a ventilator, but threw out a $450,000 judgment to compensate them for their mother’s suffering in the eight hours after they pulled the plug.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – A Utah county might still be liable for injuries suffered by a man who stood next to a planned explosion at SWAT training.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) - Companies can be liable for “take-home” asbestos exposure if they require their employees to work around asbestos or exert sufficient control over contractors who place their workers in harm’s way, the Utah Supreme Court ruled.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) - A Utah man who placed critical signs in his yard and repeatedly confronted the owner of a mental-health facility in his neighborhood could be liable under the state’s anti-stalking law, the Utah Supreme Court ruled, reversing a lower court that found the man’s behavior wasn’t threatening to a reasonable person and was protected by the First Amendment.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – “Wilderness therapy” like rock-climbing can be considered health care for the purposes of litigation, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) - Utah’s high court reinstated a lawsuit by a young woman who accused Jehovah’s Witnesses elders of forcing her to listen to audio recordings of her own rape as part of an investigation into whether she was guilty of premarital sex.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) - Salt Lake City can be sued by the family of a woman who drowned after trying to recover her dogs from a fast-flowing creek in a city park, the Utah Supreme Court ruled, reversing a lower court that dismissed the case under a state law protecting recreational areas from liability.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – It’s 14 years later and a lawsuit filed by a lawyer with amnesia who wants a share of personal injury fees generated in Fen-Phen litigation is still going.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Utah Supreme Court opted out of answering if a university's police department must hand over records requested by a newspaper before the state's Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) went into effect last year.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Utah had to determine if a hip implant device manufacturer could be held responsible for a man’s injuries after a hip replacement on Sept. 5.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Utah Supreme Court has sided with state's Third District Court in ruling that a woman allegedly injured during a surgery at LDS Hospital waited too long to file her case.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Utah reversed a lower court's decision in a malpractice suit filed against an attorney by two clients who alleged they lost the opportunity to collect more than $700,000 in a bankruptcy proceeding because the attorney failed to file the claim in a timely manner.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Utah Supreme Court has concluded that the state's Liability Reform Act does not create immunity for retailers and has reversed a district court's dismissal of a lawsuit.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Utah Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's decision allowing navigable recreational waterway use on the Weber River.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Utah Supreme Court has ruled against a man whose dog was shot and killed by a police officer during a search for a missing toddler.
The suit, originally filed in 2011, alleges C.R. England Inc. fraudulently induced thousands of drivers to enroll in its training schools by promising them either employment or the ability to earn desirable income as independent contractors, even though positions with the company were largely unavailable.
SALT LAKE CITY (Legal Newsline) – The Utah Supreme Court has decided Utah law overrules the common-law defense of sudden incapacity in a limited extent, doing so in a lawsuit regarding a bus driver who became unconscious transporting a high school band.
