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...

Reporter Eldon Knoche in Milwaukee and correspondent Mike Kinzel in Manitowoc contributed to this story Milwaukee Sentinel Three construction workers who were severely burned in a flash charcoal fire while rebuilding an incinerator were awarded $17.2 million Friday in a verdict believed to be the largest for actual damages ever awarded in Wisconsin. The...

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