Family Files Suit In Peninsula Bicyclist Big-Rig Death
REDWOOD CITY (BCN) – The family of a woman fatally struck by a big-rig while riding her bicycle in unincorporated Portola Valley last month has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in San Mateo County...
View ArticleParents Of San Bruno Explosion Victim Sue PG&E
SAN BRUNO (BCN) — The parents of a woman who was killed in the San Bruno gas line explosion in September filed a wrongful death lawsuit against PG&E in San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday. The...
View ArticleWrongful Death Suit Filed In SJPD Shooting
SAN JOSE (BCN) — An attorney for the parents of a mentally ill man who was shot to death by San Jose police officers two years ago has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the officers and the city...
View ArticleWrongful Death Ruling Appealed Amid East Bay Officer Allegations
PITTSBURG (AP) — Criminal allegations against an East Bay narcotics officer have prompted an appeal of a judge’s ruling that Pittsburg police were justified in opening fire on a man in 2008. The appeal...
View Article$1.5M Settlement In Deputy Killing Of Knife-Waving Martinez Hospital Patient
MARTINEZ (CBS/AP) – Contra Costa County will pay nearly $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of a knife-waving man who was shot by sheriff’s deputies in an emergency room. The settlement was...
View ArticleWrongful Death Lawsuit Over SF Dementia Patient Left At Wrong Location
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – An elder abuse and wrongful death case has been filed in California Superior Court in the disappearance and death of a San Francisco dementia patient who was missing for 10 days...
View ArticleWrongful Death Case Begins Against Convicted Murderer Hans Reiser
HAYWARD (CBS SF) — More than four years after he was convicted of murdering his wife, computer engineer Hans Reiser returned to court Monday to defend himself in a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed...
View ArticleConvicted Murderer Hans Reiser Defends Self In Wrongful Death Case
HAYWARD (KCBS) — Convicted murderer Hans Reiser wore an orange prison uniform with two file boxes in front of him as he appeared in court Tuesday to outline his strategy in the wrongful death lawsuit...
View ArticleReiser Attacks Slain Wife’s Character In Wrongful Death Case
HAYWARD (CBS SF) — Convicted killer Hans Reiser began his defense in his wrongful death trial on Wednesday by talking at length about the hormone oxytocin and by attacking his wife’s character. Reiser,...
View ArticleConvicted Killer Reiser Admits Wife Never Directly Harmed Children
HAYWARD (CBS SF) — Convicted wife-killer Hans Reiser admitted in his wrongful death trial Thursday that his wife never directly harmed their children. His statement while testifying in his own defense...
View ArticleReiser Wrongful Death Trial Goes To Jury
OAKLAND (CBS SF) - An attorney who represents Hans Reiser’s two children asked jurors Monday to order Reiser to pay millions of dollars of damages for depriving them of their mother, Nina Reiser, by...
View ArticleJury Orders Reiser To Pay Children Millions In Death Of Oakland Mom
OAKLAND (CBS SF) - Jurors on Tuesday ordered convicted wife-killer Hans Reiser to pay his two children a total of $60 million in damages for the loss of their mother. Reiser, 48, who is serving a term...
View ArticleFamily Insists San Jose Marine Was Wrongfully Killed By SoCal Police
FREMONT (CBS) — Friends and family gathered Saturday to mourn the death of a 22-year old San Jose Marine who was killed last week by Palm Springs police. The family believes it is a case of wrongful...
View ArticleJudge Says Park Officials Destroyed Evidence Case Of Boy Who Died From Fall...
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — A federal magistrate judge says the National Park Service purposely destroyed evidence in the wrongful death case of a 9-year-old boy who fell to his death from a crumbling...
View ArticleBerkeley PD To Change Policies After Wrongful Death Settlement
BERKELEY (CBS SF) – The wife and two sons of a man who was killed outside his home in the Berkeley Hills last year have reached a resolution of their wrongful death lawsuit against the city of...
View ArticleSan Mateo Bridge Limo Fire Victims’ Families File Wrongful Death Suits
SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — Family members of the victims of a fatal limousine fire on the San Mateo bridge are filing wrongful death lawsuits. Five of the nine women inside the limo were killed in the May...
View ArticleFamily Of Sonoma Teen Killed By Deputy To File Civil Rights Suit
SANTA ROSA (CBS SF) – The attorney for the family of 13-year-old Andy Lopez Cruz will file a federal civil rights lawsuit in San Francisco Monday against Sonoma County and the sheriff’s deputy who...
View ArticlePhil Matier: Wrongful Death Suit Could Change How Uber Does Business
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — A wrongful-death lawsuit involving Uber and one of its drivers who struck a 6-year-old girl, could be instrumental in changing the way ridesharing companies are regulated. The...
View ArticleUnion Files Complaint In Death Of Window-Washing Custodian At UC Berkeley
BERKELEY (CBS/AP) — A union representing service workers at the University of California, Berkeley has filed a complaint with state authorities over the death of a custodian. Forty-five-year-old Damon...
View ArticleFamily Of Cal Football Player Ted Agu Filing Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against...
BERKELEY (CBS/AP) — Attorneys representing the family of former California football player Ted Agu filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California. Agu died following...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Following Fatal Highway 17 Big...
SANTA CRUZ (KCBS) – The family of a Santa Cruz man killed in a big rig crash on Highway 17 in July has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. 25-year-old Daniel McGuire was killed in the crash on July 10,...
View ArticleThe Family Of Man Shot By Richmond Police Officer May Sue For Wrongful Death
RICHMOND (CBS SF) — The family of a man shot and killed by a Richmond police officer last week believes the officer is lying about what happened. Relatives of Richard “Pedie” Perez say witnesses...
View ArticleNapa To Pay $700K To Family Of Man Killed By Police In Shooting
NAPA (CBS SF) — The city of Napa and the family of a man who was fatally shot by Napa police in 2010 have settled a wrongful death lawsuit, both parties to the suit announced Monday. Under the...
View ArticleNo Charges For Richmond Police Officer Who Fatally Shot Man Outside Liquor...
RICHMOND (CBS SF) – No charges will be filed against an officer in the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man in Richmond last September, a Contra Costa County deputy district attorney said. In a letter...
View ArticleRecord-Setting $8.3M Wrongful Death Settlement In Case Of Santa Rita Jail...
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys have just settled the largest wrongful death civil rights settlement in California history and it will change the way inmates with addictions are...
View ArticleCasey Kasem’s Widow Sued For Wrongful Death
LOS ANGELES (CBS SF/AP) — Three of the radio personality Casey Kasem’s children and his brother sued his widow on Wednesday, claiming her actions led to his death in 2014. The wrongful death lawsuit...
View ArticleVideo Surfaces Of 2013 Oakland Arrest That Ended In Man’s Death
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Just days after the settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department, troubling new video surfaced showing the moments before the Bay Area man at the...
View ArticleAntioch Police Accused Of Smothering Distressed Man To Death During Arrest
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) — A lawsuit alleging police misconduct in the death of a delirious man last year was filed late last week against the city of Antioch and members of its police force. The lawsuit,...
View ArticleJudge Awards Damages Of $36M In Bobbi Kristina Death Case
ATLANTA (CBS SF/AP) — A judge in Atlanta on Thursday ordered Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case, her estate’s lawyers said. Brown, the daughter of...
View ArticleBART To Pay $3.1 Million To Family Of Transit Cop Slain In 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — BART directors have agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed by the family of BART police Sgt. Thomas Smith, who was inadvertently shot dead...
View ArticleSan Jose Police Seek 5 Men for Altercation That Led to Man’s Death
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Police are searching for five men involved in an altercation that allegedly led to a man’s death in east San Jose last month, police said. The altercation took place shortly before...
View ArticleWrongful Death Suit Filed In Death Of Man Who Was Choked During Arrest
PITTSBURG (CBS SF) — The family of a man who died last year during an arrest due to complications from a carotid chokehold has sued the Pittsburg Police Department for wrongful death and violation of...
View ArticleJahi McMath’s Mom: ‘She Grew Taller, Went Through Puberty, Dead People Don’t...
OAKLAND (KPIX) – For 5 years, the family of Jahi McMath insisted she was alive when most of the world was saying she was gone. Eleven days ago that fight ended, at least, medically, when her heart...
View ArticleCamp Fire Death Toll Climbs To 83, List Of Missing At 560
BUTTE COUNTY (CBS/AP) — Authorities in Butte County announced Wednesday evening that two more sets of human remains have been found, bringing death toll from the Camp Fire to 83. Butte County Sheriff...
View ArticleFamily Outraged After Police Commission Says Richmond Officer’s Testimony In...
RICHMOND (CBS SF) — Richmond’s Police Community Review Commission approved a statement Wednesday night indicating that Officer Wallace Jensen violated departmental policy in the 2014 death of Richard...
View ArticleUPDATE: Antioch Police Deny Officers Kneeled on Neck of Navy Vet During Arrest
ANTIOCH (CBS SF/AP) — New details emerge regarding the death of a mentally ill Antioch Navy veteran after being restrained by police. The Antioch Police Department Tuesday night released 911 tapes of...
View ArticleFamily Sues Antioch Over Angelo Quinto’s In Custody Death
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/AP) — Family members of a Navy veteran who died after a police officer allegedly pressed a knee to his neck for nearly five minutes during a mental health crisis have filed a...
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