Wrongful Death

• Oak Harbor man dies hours after arrest

  Dale Emch | August 15, 2007 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  Only seven years after he was awarded $600,000 in a police brutality lawsuit, an Oak Harbor, Ohio, man died last weekend after Sandusky County Sheriff's deputies shocked him multiple times with a Taser.Craig A. Burdine, 37, was being booked into the jail on assault and criminal damaging charges when the police used the Taser because "he was going crazy," Fremont Police Chief Monte Huss told the...

• Crash prompts wrongful death lawsuit in Toledo

  Dale Emch | February 09, 2007 1:33 PM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  A plane accident spurred a wrongful death claim in Lucas County Common Pleas Court, which is west of Sandusky.The crash killed Abdulgader Zbedah, a Grand Aire Express pilot, on Feb. 8, 2006, in rural northwestern Tennessee, according to the Toledo Blade. The suit was filed against Grand Aire Express, TriCoastal Air, Inc., and Fairchild Aircraft, Inc.For more information, please click on the...

• Ohio Bed Maker Settles Wrongful-Death Suit

  Christina Cole | January 12, 2007 12:23 AM | 0 CommentsSandusky, OH

  A second Delaware family has settled a federal wrongful-death claim with an Ohio bed manufacturer.A stipulation of dismissal, signed by both sides, was filed in the U.S. District Court just before the holidays.According to the one-sentence document, the terms were met in November. No further details were disclosed and lawyers for both the now-defunct Vail Products Inc. and plaintiff, Anna...