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A Michigan federal judge said the Flint City Council's inaction can't stand in the way of McLaren Healthcare Corp.'s promise to pay $5 million into a proposed civil settlement over the lead water crisis, an amount that is down from the $20 million the medical center initially proposed.

A Michigan federal judge said the Flint City Council's inaction can't stand in the way of McLaren Healthcare Corp.'s promise to pay $5 million into a proposed civil settlement over the lead water crisis, an amount that is down from the $20 million the medical center initially proposed.

A Florida federal judge tossed claims by a formerly imprisoned man who said inadequate treatment by a correctional facility doctor led to a heart attack and the amputation of both his legs, finding that while the physician's care was wanting it was also not deliberately indifferent.

A private child welfare agency and a youth residential care facility have agreed to pay $10.6 million to three Philadelphia-area girls who claimed they were sexually and physically abused over the course of a year after the organizations returned them to their father's care, attorneys for the children announced on Monday.

A Florida state appeals panel tossed claims that an assisted living facility in St. Petersburg abused a former patient, finding that the plaintiff's "scattershot" arguments can't overcome an arbitration agreement signed by the woman's daughter upon admission into the facility.

A Michigan federal judge has rejected Live Nation Inc.'s effort to shut down a personal injury suit launched by an employee for rapper DMX who claims he fell at one of the company's venues, puncturing a lung and fracturing his spine, with the judge finding the argument that the man was a "trespasser" unpersuasive.

A South Carolina state appeals court has denied a request for a new trial by a couple alleging a doctor was negligent in the emergency delivery of their baby, finding the trial court judge appropriately allowed the physician to rely on the state's emergency medical care statute as an affirmative defense against simple negligence.

A Florida federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the father of a seaman who died while aboard the college student-focused MV World Odyssey cruise liner, finding that the United States is the proper venue for the case, not the Bahamas.

An Illinois state appeals court has revived a suit alleging a long-term living facility, one of its nurses and its Chicago-based parent company are liable for a former resident's fractured hip, ruling that there's a lingering question over whether the patient was competent enough to sign an arbitration agreement.

A Georgia state appeals court on Thursday knocked an Atlanta trial judge for excluding evidence that showed a man riding an electric skateboard wasn't wearing a helmet when he was struck by a cyclist, finding the decision was based on "judicial imagination" and lacked "even the backing of common law authority."