Liability

Forty-five residents of Lawn Terrace apartments in Pawtucket, R.I., claim they had to evacuate their homes for months because New England Gas Co. and Southern Union Co. allowed mercury to be stolen from a nearby, unsecured facility, in Providence Superior Court.

Challenge Unlimited's bus driver Lorenzo Perez sexually assaulted a mentally handicapped woman on his bus while working on a contract with Southwestern Illinois College, the woman's guardian claims in St. Clair County Court, Belleville.

The Lakeview Christian Church of Dallas negligently allowed its minister, Larry Joe Crocker, to sexually assault a boy for two years, the boy's mother claims in Dallas County Court.

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