by Dave Daley of the Journal Sentinel staff A 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...

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...

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...

Award-winning personal injury attorney Pat Dunphy explains the passion he has for his clients, and why he enjoys being a lawyer.