Auto parts retailer AutoZone has agreed to pay $3.3 million to the families of three people who were killed when one of the company's trucks struck their car.

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Two Milwaukee police officers are in court where they are taking on the gun store that sold a firearm to the man who shot them.

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A Memorial Day parade that led to a traffic jam blocking railroad tracks in a Milwaukee suburb did not amount to a specific hazard that could make the railroad company liable for striking a minivan, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

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BP acknowledged Tuesday it had failed to reach a settlement in advance of next week's civil trial on the Deepwater Horizon accident and is ready to defend itself vigorously against allegations of gross negligence in the U.S.'s biggest environmental disaster.

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2011AP2703 O’Brien v. Germantown Mutual Insurance Company, et al.

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2011AP2294 Community Credit Union v. AmeriTitle & Abstract Inc., et al.

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Carlyne Karschney elected to use the services of a nurse midwife at the local clinic because there were no female physicians. The only doctors at the clinic and, for that matter, the hospital were family practitioners because there were no obstetricians on staff.

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2010AP2916 Emmrich v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, et al.

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2011AP1167 Cartter, et al. v. Marcus Hotels Inc., et al.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of three doctors in a malpractice case.

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2011AP1670 EBA Design Inc. v. Meeker, et al.

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The city of Milwaukee on Friday filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court against four companies for damages related to terra cotta installed on the exterior of City Hall during the building’s restoration project between 2006 and 2008, according to a city of Milwaukee news release.

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2011AP1874 Berg v. Secura Insurance, et al.

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A Slinger couple and a former Milwaukee attorney are preparing to battle it out in court over a six-figure real estate deal gone sour.

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11-1211 Irish, et al. v. BNSF Railway Company, et al.

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2011AP739 Jane Doe v. Certain Interested Underwriters at Lloyds London, et al.

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A Wisconsin Dells resort cannot sue a Madison-based contractor for moisture damages resulting from a water park project built more than 10 years ago, according to a Court of Appeals ruling Thursday.

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State courts could not categorically refuse to enforce arbitration clauses in the admission contracts of nursing homes sued for wrongful death, the U.S Supreme Court has ruled in a per curiam decision.

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2010AP2992 Weather Shield Mgf., et al. v. Compass Group USA, et al.

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The family of a teenager killed in a crash with a La Crosse County Sheriff's Department has settled a negligence claim.

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2011AP50 Kidd v. Allaway

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Torts Negligence; causation

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Torts Negligence

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Torts FELA; negligence

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Torts Negligence West Bend Mutual Insurance Company appeals a summary judgment dismissing its negligence claim against InterCon Construction, Inc., and Arch Insurance Company (collectively “InterCon”). We conclude summary judgment was inappropriate because the record viewed in the light most favorable ...

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Torts Safe-place statute; negligence Richard Grieger appeals a summary judgment dismissing his personal injury action that alleged negligence and safe-place violations. Grieger argues the circuit court erroneously concluded that the safe-place statute was inapplicable. Grieger further contends the court erroneously ...

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Torts Medical malpractice; negligence; causation; damages Peri Aldrich, M.D., and her employer, Bellin Health Systems, Inc., are co-appellants in this wrongful death medical malpractice case. A jury found them causally negligent in the death of Gustavo Espinal-Santos, who was treated ...

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Torts Negligence; jury instructions; causation Sandra and Michael Froseth appeal the judgment entered in their personal injury action against Michael Brenizer. The Froseths argue the circuit court erroneously excluded reference to the substantial factor test in the jury instructions. The ...

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BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin mother has pleaded no contest to felony negligence in the death of her 16-month-old son who was left in a hot trailer at a park in Prairie du Sac last summer. Police were called ...

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Torts Negligence; public policy In 2003, ten-year-old Jason Wilson sustained a severe eye injury when a tent stake he was hitting against a tree broke apart. Mary and Earl Wilson, Jason’s grandparents, were found causally negligent by a jury for ...

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