|VIDEO| The Francis McDonald Closing That Cleared Ford in Airbag-Related Crash Case
Nov 16, 2020
Crash trials often turn on competing accident reconstruction evidence. And one of the most effective techniques to undercut an opposing party’s reconstruction evidence is to show how it lacks support from the crash scene itself. In closings at tri...
Oct 16, 2020
Because weeks of complex and often conflicting evidence can overwhelm jurors in a medical malpractice trial, simplifying the keys to the case is crucial. In a med mal and false advertising trial against a medical concierge firm for the vascul...
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Oct 9, 2020
Establishing a franchisor's right of control over a franchisee is crucial to proving vicarious liability in a personal injury case. And at trial over a retired fire chief’s fatal crash with a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver, Mark Avera adeptly coun...
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Oct 2, 2020
Jurors Thursday awarded roughly $36,000 to a Florida law firm at trial over fees it sought to collect from a woman it represented, wrapping the Florida Fourth Circuit’s second fully remote jury trial in as many months.
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Remote Jury Trial Set Over Unpaid Legal Fees Set to Begin
Sep 28, 2020
Trial is scheduled to begin this week against a Florida woman accused of owing her former attorney more than $55,000, in the Florida Fourth Circuit’s second fully remote jury trial in as many months.
Aug 6, 2020
Plaintiff, a former dancer at a club owned by defendant, claims a bouncer employed by defendant struck and injured her during a dispute. NOTE: This proceeding includes voir dire (jury selection).
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Aug 5, 2020
10 of the most impressive plaintiff verdicts from CVN's extensive collection of Florida civil jury trials
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Jul 30, 2020
Medical malpractice trials often turn on the testimony of the defendant health care provider. And in an interview with CVN, Searcy Denney’s Ed Ricci and Matt Schwencke detailed how they turned a defendant physician’s own cross-exam testimony again...
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$7.25M Verdict Against RJR Upheld by Florida Appeals Court
Jul 24, 2020
A Florida appellate court last week upheld a $7.25 million award for the heart disease jurors found was caused by a decades-long addiction to R.J. Reynolds cigarettes.
Jul 14, 2020
Face shields. Plexiglass barriers. Jurors in the gallery.
Welcome to trial in the age of covid.
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Jun 24, 2020
Causation is a key battle line in nutraceutical product liability cases. And at trial over the liver failure a man suffered after taking green tea extract, Edward Nicklaus’s compelling closing on causation helped clear a Kroger-owned nutrition com...
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Jun 18, 2020
Florida’s ongoing Engle progeny litigation — which include thousands of cases spun from a decertified class action against the nation’s tobacco companies — has seen some of the best attorneys in the country. Over the years our Engle cards have bee...
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