A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in federal court regarding the 2011 fatal shooting of a suspected burglar by a Houston County sheriff’s deputy. The lawsuit alleges sheriff’s Deputy Steven Glidden fatally shot 19-year-old Robert Kendrick Chambers once in the back of the head Jan. 24, 2011, in a pecan orchard near Feagin Mill Middle School as Chambers...

The family of former NFL player Junior Seau has filed suit against the league, claiming that his suicide was the result of a brain disease caused by repeated blows to the head. The family says the NFL “hid the dangers of repetitive blows to the head” from players and “ignored and concealed evidence of the risks associated with traumatic brain...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. Relatives of a Western Carolina University football player who died after a 2009 workout have dropped a wrongful death lawsuit against the school’s athletic personnel. The lawsuit filed by the father of Ja’Quayvin Smalls was voluntarily dismissed Thursday. Smalls’ family had been seeking money from the school’s coaches and...

A sharply divided Montana Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a Hutterite religious colony to pay workers’ compensation insurance for jobs outside the commune is not an unconstitutional intrusion into religion. The 4-3 decision upholds a 2009 law requiring religious organizations to carry workers’ compensation insurance, which the Legislature passed...

(CBS/AP) SAN MATEO, Calif. – A California woman who claimed she had an ankle injury in order to collect workers’ compensation payments was “exposed,” prosecutors say – when she was caught in the middle of a sexual encounter in a public park. Authorities said 29-year-old Modupe Adunni Martin was caught on videotape throwing her...

OK legislator wants more money in workers’ comp An Oklahoma lawmaker who was awarded more than $61,000 in workers’ compensation for injuries suffered in a collision as he drove to the state Capitol has appealed for more money, while the state House and its insurance carrier asked for the award to be thrown out. staff reporters, NECN 08/25/2012 Read...