Wrongful Death Settlement News Today

The family of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins will receive $6.4 million following a wrongful death settlement six years after the teen died in an Illinois hotel freezer in 2017.

Kenneka Jenkins, 19, died after being locked in a walk-in freezer in the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel in 2017. Her family sued the hotel.

The family of Soheil Mojarrad, who was shot and killed by officer William Brett Edwards in Raleigh, received a $1.25 million settlement.

The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state and the county and sheriff whose deputies were involved in restraining him. A judge approved the out-of-court wrongful death settlement Tuesday, according to an agreement filed in Henrico County Circuit Court. Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man, died in March after being pressed to the floo...

The heirs of Jesse Eckes are asking a Jackson County judge to approve a settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver in the crash that killed their father.

The Clayton County school board will pay a $10 million settlement in the death of 16-year-old Imani Bell, who died in 2019.

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Lawyers representing the family of longtime Murdaugh housekeeper Gloria Satterfield say they've recouped $7.5 million but aren't done.

Alex Murdaugh is accused of running a scheme to funnel millions of dollars that were supposed to be paid to the sons of his former housekeeper in a wrongful death lawsuit.