$1.5M Verdict Hits McDonald's Manager, While Franchise Cleared in Fatal Motorcycle Crash
Oct 17, 2015
Jurors this week awarded $1.5 million to the parents of a motorcyclist killed in a collision with a McDonald’s franchise manager, but cleared the franchise of liability.
Oct 16, 2015
The defense attorney in an auto accident case rebuts plaintiff's doctor's diagnoses that her pain resulted from the accident by attacking plaintiff's credibility rather than by introducing any contrary medical evidence.
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Oct 16, 2015
As trial opened this week in the death of a Florida plasterer who smoked for more than 50 years, opposing sides sparred over the cause of the cancer that killed David Robertson and whether it was linked to R.J. Reynolds cigarettes.
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Oct 16, 2015
A New Jersey state court jury cleared Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare of all liability on Friday in the first of hundreds of lawsuits to go to trial.
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Investors Seek $112M From Ernst & Young At Trial Over Bernie Madoff Losses
Oct 15, 2015
An investment firm that saw nearly $200 million vanish in Bernie Madoff’s historic Ponzi scheme took Ernst & Young to trial on Tuesday, claiming that the accounting giant is responsible for the loss.
Oct 14, 2015
In a major product liability case, Fulton County State Court Judge Diane Bessen ruled that the sale of a product is not a prerequisite to bring a claim for negligent design of that product, paving the way for a $29M wrongful death verdict for the ...
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Oct 13, 2015
A Washington State court jury sided with investors on Friday who lost $112 million dollars in Bernie Madoffs historic Ponzi scheme in their lawsuit against Ernst & Young LLP, finding that the accounting giant was negligent by signing off on a...
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Oct 12, 2015
In this tobacco liability case, Irene Robertson is suing defendant tobacco manufacturers for concealing the dangers of cigarettes, which she claims led to the nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease of David Robertson.
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R.J. Reynolds Largely Cleared of Liability in Smoker's Death, as Jurors Award $5K to Widower
Oct 9, 2015
Jurors delivered a verdict for R.J. Reynolds in everything but name Monday, as they awarded $5,000 to the widower of a Polish immigrant who smoked for more than 40 years, and they found Reynolds only 2% responsible for the cancer that caused her d...
Oct 9, 2015
A 2012 car crash did not deliver the career-ending injuries a former lab technician claims she suffered, a jury found last week in a quarter-million-dollar-plus trial.
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Oct 9, 2015
In a Newton County Superior Court med mal case, the jury found in favor of Dr. Steven Whitworth, whose patient William Ron Aiken developed severe complications following the removal of his gall bladder.
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Oct 9, 2015
A South Carolina state court jury slammed Texas-based materials company Celanese Corp. with a $14 million verdict on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by the family of a maintenance worker who died of cancer after being exposed to asbestos.
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