Hospital Negligence Paralyzed Car Crash Victim, Attorney Says as Med Mal Trial Begins
Nov 30, 2016
Attorneys sparred over whether a car accident or medical negligence paralyzed a South Florida woman, as trial opened Monday against the hospital that treated her following her late-night crash.
Nov 28, 2016
In this medical malpractice action, plaintiff claims defendant healthcare providers failed to meet their standard of care, leading to her paraplegia following a traffic accident.
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Nov 28, 2016
An intersection with poor visibility that was allegedly known by state officials to be dangerous was the cause of a traffic accident that resulted in the partial amputation of a former UCLA football player’s leg, his attorney told jurors.
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Nov 23, 2016
Jurors deliberated for about 10 minutes last week before clearing a driver of responsibility for the shoulder injuries a Georgia exterminator claims he suffered in a 2012 car crash.
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Ekbatani v. Caltrans
Nov 21, 2016
A Redondo Beach intersection with poor visibility that was allegedly known by state officials to be dangerous was the cause of a traffic accident that resulted in the partial amputation of a former UCLA football players leg, his attorney told jur...
Nov 21, 2016
Jurors Friday awarded $650,000 in punitive damages on top of a nearly $5.5 million compensatory judgment earlier in the week to the widower of a woman with a half-century smoking habit that left her with coronary heart disease and lung cancer.
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Nov 21, 2016
A Georgia appeals court has rejected Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s bid to throw out $40 million in legal damages stemming from a Jeep Cherokee’s exploding fuel tank, that a jury determined caused the death of a 4-year-old boy.
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Nov 18, 2016
A Florida jury awarded more than $1 million to a woman with late-stage emphysema from a 40-year smoking habit at trial against the tobacco company accused of hiding the dangers of smoking while selling her cigarettes for decades.
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Philip Morris & RJR Hit with $5.5M Judgment, Plus Possible Punitives, at Trial Over New York Native's Fatal Cancer
Nov 17, 2016
Jurors found R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris liable in the lung cancer death of a New York native, slapping the tobacco giants with nearly $5.5 million in compensatory damages and finding punitives potentially warranted for conspiring to hide the ...
Nov 17, 2016
A Florida appeals court has overturned a rare $8 million verdict in an asbestos-related mesothelioma lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Crane Co.
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Nov 17, 2016
Attorneys debated whether decades of job-related orthopedic stress or a rear-end collision caused a Snellville exterminator’s shoulder injury, as trial began Tuesday against the woman who crashed into him.
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Nov 16, 2016
A South Florida jury imposed a $6 million punitive verdict on R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris yesterday, completing a $10 million damage award against the tobacco giants for their role in a former nurse’s cancer and respiratory disease.
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