Award-winning attorney Pat Dunphy explains the most appropriate time to settle a personal injury case.

by Dave Daleyof the Journal Sentinel staffA 12-year-old Egg Harbor boy whose arm was wrenched off last year by a defective Laundromat washing machine won nearly $9 million Thursday in what legal experts believe is among the largest personal-injury settlements in state history.The $8.85 million awarded Michael R. Newell and his family by the manufacturers and...

by Tom Kertscherof the Journal Sentinel staffSt. Michael Hospital has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a Milwaukee woman who alleged that lack of care forced her to get a heart transplant.The woman's lawyer, Mark Thomsen of Brookfield, said the hospital relied on a resident doctor when a specialist should have...

  by Jim Stancil of the Journal Sentinel staff   Lisa Buestrin's impressive resume stops in 1993 when her public life was replaced by a private hell. After sprinting from president of her high school class to the White House, Buestrin spends her days at home now. Her brilliant career destroyed, her body ravaged and immobilized...