FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – Prison officers can’t get out of a lawsuit that blames them for the death of an inmate who ingested fentanyl that was smuggled in.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – A Kentucky restaurant has escaped liability in a lawsuit brought by the father of a 5-year-old who lost part of his finger in a bathroom door but couldn’t explain what exactly happened.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – A former elementary school principal has defeated a lawsuit that blamed him for the sexual abuse of one of his students by an older child.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A Kentucky appeals court ordered a new trial in the case of a woman who claims she contracted cancer from talcum powder, saying it was improper to allow Johnson & Johnson witness to testify that he and his family used Johnson’s Baby Powder for decades.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) – The estate of a woman who sustained severe burns and injuries when she tried to light a gasoline-soaked brush pile with a cigarette lighter has lost its lawsuit against the property owner.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - Bausch & Lomb, the eye products manufacturer, was found not liable for an injury possibly caused by the off-label use of one of its products in Kentucky.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Legal Newsline) - A Kentucky appeals court upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action by property owners against a nearby coal-fired power plant, saying they tailored the suit to avoid problems over personal-injury claims only to run afoul of other procedural rules governing class actions.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has affirmed the lower court's decision which found Verdure, LLC, as a landlord, owed no duty to a tenant who was killed by a stray bullet.
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