By ELIZABETH BANICKI LOS ANGELES (CN) – Three ski patrolmen died at a volcanic vent at Mammoth Mountain ski resort, and two of their families say the United States is to blame for failing to warn about the fumarole and the poisonous gases that escape from it.   The three men died in April 2006 ... Read more

BY SCOTT FITZGERALD LEE NEWSPAPERS 09/16/2009   MARION, Ill. — A 65-year-old Southern Illinois woman died days after she was burned in a fire in an operating room, a lawyer for her family says.   Attorney Robert Howerton of Marion says a state of Tennessee death certificate shows that Janice Diane McCall of Energy, Ill., ... Read more

Published September 4, 2009 by William Lee, Chicago Tribune   A Cook County judge on Thursday approved a $15 million settlement for the family of a restaurateur killed in a small airplane crash near a Wheeling airport in 2006.   Michael Waugh, 37, and three others were killed when the twin-engine Cessna 421B they were ... Read more

Published August 13, 2009 by zeenews.com New York: The family of the first fatal swine flu victim in New York has filed papers in court with the intention of suing the local government for $40 million, news reports said on Wednesday.   Assistant principal Mitch Wiener at a Queens school succumbed to the influenza virus ... Read more