BREAKING UPDATE: $10M Punitive Verdict Boosts Award Against RJR to $13M in Fatal COPD Trial
Apr 22, 2016
Jurors Thursday awarded $3 million plus potential punitive damages to children of a former bartender, after finding R.J. Reynolds responsible for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that killed her.
Apr 13, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, plaintiff claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, causing nicotine addiction and smoking-related illness.
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Apr 13, 2016
Jurors last week handed down a $10.1 million verdict against Domino’s Pizza for the auto wreck that paralyzed and later killed a former fire chief.
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Apr 8, 2016
In this tobacco litigation case, Vivian Turner claims defendant tobacco company concealed the health risks of cigarettes, leading to her mother, Vivian Wilkinson's nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease.
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ER Doctor Prevails in Trial Over Girl's Deadly Diabetes Complications
Apr 7, 2016
Jurors Tuesday cleared an emergency room doctor and hospital of liability for the diabetes-related death of a 12-year-old girl.
Apr 5, 2016
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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Mar 31, 2016
An emergency room doctor acted recklessly in treating a child’s diabetic complications, ultimately worsening brain swelling that led to her death, a pediatric physician told jurors Wednesday as trial continued in the suit against the ER doctor and...
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Mar 30, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Patsy Davis claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the health risks of smoking, leading to the nicotine addiction and smoking-related disease of Booker Davis.
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Kelly v. Indian River Memorial Hospital
Mar 23, 2016
In this negligence case, Terrence Kelly and Sandra Kelly claim Indian River Memorial Hospital breached its standard of care
Mar 21, 2016
Jurors Monday imposed a $25.1 million punitive verdict on Gawker Media, its founder, and its former editor for the company’s publication of a sex video involving wrestler Hulk Hogan, driving the total award past $140 million in the blockbuster inv...
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Mar 21, 2016
A Florida jury on Friday socked online news outlet Gawker Media LLC with a ground-shaking $115 million verdict in Hulk Hogan’s invasion of privacy lawsuit over the website’s publication of excerpts of a sex tape featuring the former professional w...
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Mar 18, 2016
The origin of the cancer that killed a 52-year-old Florida man, and the disease’s potential link to his 40 years of smoking took center stage as trial began Thursday in his family’s suit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds.
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