Injury Law News

  • Alabama jury awarded $30 Million to murder victim forced to wait hours in emergency room
    A Tuscaloosa County jury has awarded what could be a record $30 million verdict to the family of a murder victim who waited hours to see a surgeon at DCH Regional Medical Center. The family of homicide victim Johnny Sledge won the medical malpractice suit against DCH Healthcare Authority and other
  • Kansas Supreme Court: Bars Can’t Be Sued by Drunken Driving Victims
    Kansas is one of just a handful of states that doesn’t allow a person injured by a drunk driver to sue the retailer who furnished the alcohol. On Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld that 34-year-old rule, saying it was up to the Legislature to change it. On March 10, 2015, Jeff Kudlacik was
  • Bayer/Monsanto Hit With $2 Billion Verdict in Roundup Case
    On Monday, a jury concluded that Monsanto’s Roundup caused an elderly couple to suffer non-Hodgkin lymphoma after years of using the herbicide. The jury awarded Alberta and Alva Pilliod a combined total of $2.055 Billion in damages. Today’s verdict in Pilliod v. Monsanto was the third consecutive
  • Johnson & Johnson Will Pay $1 Billion to Settle Hip Implant Lawsuits
    In early May, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay approximately $1 billion to resolve many of lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hip implants that eventually had to be surgically removed. J&J has been accused of not properly testing the safety of this product or warning people
White House Has “Monsanto’s Back on Pesticides,” Newly Revealed Document Says
05/08/2019
Internal Monsanto records just filed in court show that a corporate intelligence group hired to “to take the temperature on current regulatory attitudes for glyphosate” reported that the White House could be counted on to defend the company’s Roundup herbicides. In a report attached to a July 2018 Read More
Tesla Model X Autopilot Crash Wrongful Death Lawsuit
05/08/2019
A Tesla Model X wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of Walter Huang who was killed in a March 2018 crash in Mountain View, California. The lawsuit alleges Huang died because he believed Tesla's advertising about the safety of the Autopilot system and other features. The 38-year-old Read More
Contaminated Heart Medication Leads to Massive Number of Lawsuits
05/08/2019
All prescription medications have a risk of side effects. Typically, those side effects include sleepiness, nausea and other mild issues. Certainly, nobody expects to take a prescription drug and wind up with cancer as a result.   Unfortunately, a deadly carcinogen has contaminated an ingredient Read More
Trucking company involved in fiery Colorado crash only carries $750,000 of liability insurance
05/01/2019
LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- If a highway fireball that kills four people, injures six and leaves 28 vehicles incinerated sounds like a multi-million dollar settlement,  guess again. The Lakewood Police Department says truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, who  faces four counts of vehicular homicide, is to Read More
Ohio appellate court affirms $27M in Greyhound bus crash case
04/27/2019
Ohio’s 8th District Court of Appeals recently affirmed the verdict of a Cuyahoga County jury that ordered a bus company to pay more than $27 million in  compensatory and punitive damages to a Cleveland resident represented by McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman of Cleveland. Mark Soberay, who Read More
Philadelphia Jury Slams J&J With $120M Pelvic Mesh Verdict
04/25/2019
A Philadelphia jury has hit a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary with a $120 million verdict for allegedly failing to warn about the dangers of one of its pelvic mesh products. The verdict came down Wednesday afternoon in Judge Kenneth Powell’s courtroom after three weeks of trial, and included $20 Read More

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