$14 million A man whose skull was crushed while he was doing roofing work at a local hospital has settled with a product manufacturer and seller for more than $14 million.   Read Full Article.

$11.3 million A 20-year-old North Philadelphia woman left brain-damaged in a gun accident was awarded $11.3 million yesterday by a jury after her attorney argued that the shop that sold the weapon was partly responsible because it had not instructed the purchaser on using it safely.   Read Full Article.

$9 million After working out the details of a workers’ compensation lien with Judge Sandra Mazer Moss yesterday in Philadelphia Common Please Court, attorneys finalized a settlement that secures $9 million for an employee of a contractor who suffered electrical shock when the loader he was operating came into contact with uninsulated power lines.   Read Full Article.

$8.9 million A worker who was partially paralyzed, blinded in one eye and suffered extensive brain damage when a 10-ton mobile office fell on him will be paid nearly $9 million in a global settlement of a products liability lawsuit that was scheduled to go to trial Dec. 6.   Read Full Article.

$8.3 million After three and a half weeks of trial in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Howard W Abramson’s courtroom a jury returned an $8.3 million verdict in a products liability case earlier this week.  Read Full Article.

$7.9 million Richard L. Jones filed suit against West Penn Power Company Cargoteck, Larry’s Homes of Pa after sustaining when the boom of a truck he was operating struck a live overhead electrical wire.   Read Full Article.

$4.5 million A PECO employer who sustained several injuries to his pelvis and urethra three year ago when a co-worker ran him over with a backhoe loader was awarded $4.5 million yesterday by an arbitrator.   Read Full Article.