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Created: 04 August 2009 Minnesota’s Pioneer Press (8/3, Snowbeck) reported, “Two Minnesota families are offering arguments in Washington, D.C., today” in favor of the proposed Medical Device Safety Act. “Mark and Janice Baird, of Oakdale, are scheduled to talk at a news conference about their 16-year-old son, Mark, a pacemaker-dependent patient who died in September 2006. Mark’s heart device was…
Created: 29 July 2009 The AP (7/28) reported, “A jury returned a $370 million verdict against Guess Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano Friday in a civil defamation lawsuit that was filed by five former employees. Each ex-employee will get $69 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, according to the Los Angeles County Superior Court verdict.”
Created: 28 July 2009 The Tampa Tribune (7/27, Leskanic) reported, “A jury deliberated for three hours Monday before finding the Pasco County school district negligent in a 2006 crash that severely injured a 16-year-old boy. The jury awarded Marcus Button, now 19, and his parents, Robin and Mark Button, $1.625 million in damages, which his mother has said she will…
Created: 22 July 2009 The New Haven Register (7/21, Sullo) reported, “Mark Hirschbeck had his dream job as a Major League Baseball umpire and reached a career high with the 2001 World Series, but he says what started as routine hip replacement surgery cost him his career and has led to years of pain.” Hirschbeck ultimately underwent three hip replacements…
Created: 02 July 2009 The Houston Chronicle (7/2, Ackerman) reports that a Harris County, Texas, judge “ruled in favor of a Houston man in a medical malpractice case” on Tuesday, “awarding him $10 million in damages stemming from a lawsuit against Methodist Hospital and the doctors who treated him there.” John German’s left leg required amputation above the knee and…
Created: 04 June 2009 The National Law Journal (6/4, Bronstad) reports, “A judge in Washington state has ordered Expedia Inc. to pay more than $184 million for breaching its contract with hotel customers by charging service fees that generated profits for the online travel booking firm.” Steve Berman, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, said “that the judgment was the largest…
Created: 03 June 2009 The Hill (6/3, Swanson) reports, “Consumer groups and trial lawyers are crying foul over the Obama administration’s bankruptcy plans for General Motors and Chrysler” because “those plans would extinguish all ongoing auto accident claims that blame a death or serious injury on a defective GM or Chrysler vehicle.” According to Clarence Dilow, executive director of the…
Created: 28 May 2009 The New York Times (5/28, A24, Chan) reports, “New York City has agreed to pay $2 million to the family of a woman who died last year on the floor of the psychiatric [emergency department (ED)] at Kings County Hospital after waiting more than 24 hours to be treated.” In doing so, “the city’s Health and…
Created: 27 May 2009 Bloomberg News (5/26, Stohr) reported, “The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Chrysler LLC’s appeal of a $13 million punitive damage award to the family of an 8-month-old who died in a 2001 Tennessee accident while riding in a Dodge Caravan.” The car company “argued unsuccessfully that the award violated constitutional limits on damages laid out in previous…
Created: 20 May 2009 Today, President Obama issued a Directive to the Heads of all Executive Branch Departments and Agencies stating it is the policy of his Administration that “preemption of State law by executive departments and agencies should be undertaken only with full consideration of the legitimate prerogatives of the States and with a sufficient legal basis for preemption.”…