|VIDEO| How Jonathan Gdanski's Teacher-Student Analogy Helped Deliver 8-Figure Verdict in Tobacco Case
Jun 21, 2019
A vivid analogy can be a powerful way for a jury to connect with an argument. In the punitive phase of a 2019 trial against the nation’s two biggest tobacco companies for the death of a Florida smoker, Jonathan Gdanski outlines a hypothetical teac...
Jun 19, 2019
In this tobacco case, Janice Hamilton developed lung cancer after smoking cigarettes for over three decades. Her family sues R.J. Reynolds, claiming that Reynolds' efforts to conceal the dangers of cigarettes helped to cause Hamilton's lung cancer...
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|BREAKING| $8.97M Verdict Against Domino's Pizza Over Crash That Ultimately Killed Former Fire Chief
Jun 14, 2019
Domino’s Pizza was hit with an $8.97 million verdict Friday at trial over a 2011 crash that ultimately killed a former Florida fire chief.
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Jun 13, 2019
Five years after being hit with a $23.6 billion verdict that made headlines across the country, and two years after an appellate court threw out that decision, R.J. Reynolds opened retrial Wednesday over its alleged role in the 1996 cancer death o...
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Domino's Pizza Accused of Responsibility for Florida Crash That Killed Former Fire Chief, as Trial Opens
Jun 13, 2019
Attorneys debated whether Domino’s Pizza is responsible for the actions of a franchisee’s delivery driver accused of causing a 2011 crash that ultimately killed a former Central Florida fire chief, as retrial in the case opened Wednesday.
Jun 12, 2019
This is a tobacco trial that was originally part of the Florida Engle class action litigation that was decertified in 2006. Michael Johnson died from lung cancer in 1996 at 36 years old. He began smoking at the age of 13, and smoked Kool Menthol c...
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Jun 12, 2019
In this auto negligence case, plaintiffs claim a driver for Domino's Pizza caused a collision that left another driver a quadriplegic, who ultimately died one year later from a pulmonary embolism.
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Jun 7, 2019
In this tobacco case, plaintiff claims defendant's concealment of smoking's risks led to addiction and disease.
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CVN's FREE Feature Trial: 7-Figure Verdict Over Crash That Killed Florida Doctor
Jun 5, 2019
CVN’s Feature Trial of the Month — available on demand for our FREE CVN accounts — turns the spotlight on a wrongful death crash case that featured a slate of Florida’s most prominent attorneys.
May 16, 2019
A Florida state court judge Monday declared a mistrial eight days into trial against the nation’s two largest tobacco firms, following the death of the plaintiff in the case.
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May 13, 2019
In this tobacco case, plaintiff claims defendant's concealment of smoking's dangers led to nicotine addiction and disease.
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May 3, 2019
A Florida state court jury Thursday handed down a $1.6 million-plus verdict for the respiratory disease and cancer it found a Florida woman suffered because of Philip Morris-brand cigarettes. However, the verdict apportioned the lion’s share of bl...
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