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According to The Miami Herald, a civil jury recently awarded upwards of $15 million in damages to the parents of 23-year-old Emerson Kastenholz, a University of Miami graduate who was killed in a car crash on March 5, 2011.

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, a local news outlet, a $100,000 settlement was reached in a wrongful death lawsuit that had been filed against a hit-and-run driver in Richmond, Virginia.

According to The Medina County Gazette, the father of a 14-year-old boy who committed suicide last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Medina City School District, its board and a counselor at one of the schools.

According to News 12 Westchester, a local news outlet, the families of two individuals who were killed in a boat crash on the Hudson River in New York this past July have filed wrongful death lawsuits.

According to WOFL-FOX35 News in Orlando, Florida, the mother of a 12-year-old girl who committed suicide recently announced that she plans to sue her daughter’s alleged bullies.

According to The Herald-News, a 15-year-old boy died in a car accident in Wesley Township, Illinois, earlier this year when the vehicle he was riding in collided with a guardrail and flipped into a creek, causing him and three other teenagers to drown.

According to The Register-Guard, an Oregon news outlet, a Harrisburg woman whose husband killed their 13-year-old son and himself on December 22, 2010 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit that names multiple defendants, including her husband’s dentist and the PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District hospital.

Following the release of a coroner’s report listing a 31-year-old California man’s cause of death, his family has indicated that they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

According to KATU News, an Oregon news outlet, the family of a 17-year-old girl who died while snowboarding on January 27, 2012, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Mt. Hood Skibowl.

The family of a man who died during a powerboat race in Florida in 2011 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Super Boat International Productions Inc., it’s president and several other race officials, reports United Press International.

Selena Mascarenas, a 14-year-old girl from Alamosa, Colorado, was killed on April 18, 2012, when 37-year-old Gilbert Sanchez, who was drunk at the time, crashed into the vehicle she was riding in.

According to The Associated Press, five women en route to a bridal party were killed on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in San Francisco, California, on May 4 when the limousine they were riding in caught fire.

A 13-year-old girl from California has been awarded upwards of $150 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit she filed following a car crash that killed her immediate family members in 2009.