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Created: 07 December 2009 In a press release (12/4), Kreindler & Kreindler LLP wrote, “A New York jury has directed the Volvo Car Corporation to pay $8.75 million to a Yonkers man whose leg was crushed when he was hit by a 1987 Volvo 740 wagon that was missing a clutch starter safety switch, the victim’s law firm, Kreindler &…
Created: 04 December 2009 The Louisville Courier-Journal (12/3, Howington) reported, “A jury in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned a damage award of about $54 million against ResCare Inc. over the rape of a disabled male resident in one of the company’s group homes five years ago.” Carl Bettinger, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said that “The award was the largest ever…
Florida jury orders Philip Morris to pay $300M to former smoker. Details Created: 20 November 2009 The AP (11/19) reported, “South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the tobacco company’s negligence was the cause of her emphysema. The award for Cindy Naugle, 61, is the largest to date…
Judge orders Pfizer to pay $75 million in punitive damages in Prempro case. Details Created: 05 November 2009 Bloomberg News (11/5, Feeley) reports, “Pfizer Inc. must pay about $75 million in punitive damages to an Illinois woman who developed cancer after taking one of the drugmaker’s menopause treatments, people familiar with a sealed verdict in the case said.” A judge…
Created: 22 October 2009 The Bloomington Pantagraph (10/22, Brady-Lunny) reports, “A McLean County jury awarded three widows $5.5 million Wednesday in a lawsuit alleging their husbands were exposed to asbestos at a Bloomington factory. Merlon Dukes, Bob Blessing and John Watkins worked at Union Asbestos & Rubber Co., later called UNARCO Industries Inc., during the 1950s and 1960s. The men…
Created: 14 October 2009 Washington, DC–“Today’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) findings reiterate what we’ve always known: that medical malpractice claims have almost no effect on overall health care spending. Along with the CBO’s numbers and countless other academic assessments, the vast majority of empirical evidence suggests that there are only miniscule savings to be found in reforming our nation’s civil…
Created: 02 October 2009 The St. Petersburg (FL) Times (10/1, Anderson) reported, “In what local court observers are calling one of the largest verdicts they can recall, a Hernando County [FL] jury on Wednesday awarded more than $330 million in civil damages to” Angela Stone, whose 13-year-old daughter, Shelby Taylor Hagman, was killed in 2007 by a drunk driver, Christopher…
Created: 24 September 2009 The Recorder (9/24, Moser) reports, “A Santa Clara, Calif., jury awarded $49 million in damages Monday to a college student who was on his way to a camping trip when two trucks collided and one struck the car he was riding in, causing him traumatic brain injuries. It appears to be the biggest single-plaintiff personal injury…
Created: 03 September 2009 The AP (9/2, Ortiz) reported, “A federal appeals panel on Wednesday upheld a $3.2 million award to a Nebraska man left with serious injuries after he was thrown from another man’s inflatable fishing boat in 2003
Created: 07 August 2009 USA Today (8/6, Kiely) reports, “Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who grew up speaking Spanish in a public housing project, is headed for a seat on the Supreme Court after an overwhelming Senate vote Thursday to make her the first Hispanic member of the court.” Sotomayor’s “elevation prompted jubilation among leaders of the nation’s fast-growing Hispanic community.” The…