Injury Law News

04/12/2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson and an Imerys SA unit must pay an additional $80 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit claiming a man developed cancer due to his exposure to asbestos in talc-based products, a New Jersey state court jury said on Wednesday.
The decision brings the total Read More

04/08/2018
Uber Technologies Inc. is trying to fend off a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was seriously injured after her driver ordered her out of the car in the middle of a California freeway.
The ride-hailing company is asking a San Francisco state judge to throw the case out on the grounds it should Read More

04/05/2018
When a Tesla Inc. Model X slammed into a concrete highway barrier in California last month, the vehicle’s computers contained a wealth of information about the moments leading to the fatal accident.
The problem for U.S. accident investigators is that the information wasn’t easily accessible. The Read More

03/31/2018
A Phoenix, Arizona jury today found that C.R. Bard, a manufacturer of IVC blood filters should pay $3.6 million to plaintiff Sherri Booker who was 37 years old when a Bard G2 blood filter was implanted. Her blood filter which was intended to prevent blood clots broke apart and metal fragments had Read More

03/31/2018
Uber Technologies has reached a settlement with the family of the woman killed earlier this month in Tempe, Ariz., after one of the company's self-driving test vehicles struck her as she was crossing a street.
Member station KJZZ in Tempe reports that an attorney for the victim's family, Christina Read More

03/28/2018
With the 2018 growing season gearing up, eyes on wide swaths of the nation's farmland are sure to look out for continued damage from dicamba – divisive weed killer blamed for damaging millions of acres of soybeans and other plants over the last couple years.
But much attention will also be on a Read More