Jury Awards California Woman Nearly $10 Million for Injury in Hemorrhoid Surgery
A Retired Police Officer Injured During Hemorrhoid Surgery. A California state jury has awarded nearly $10 million to a woman injured by a defective hemorrhoid stapler during surgery. The judgment was returned against Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. and J&J Healthcare Systems, Law360 … [Read more...]
More than $2M Actos Bladder Cancer Case Award
Actos Bladder Cancer Case. A jury in a Pennsylvania state court awarded more than $2 million to a woman who claimed Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ diabetes medication Actos (pioglitazone) caused her bladder cancer. The plaintiff’s case alleged that Takeda officials failed to adequately warn Frances Wisniewski’s doctor about the cancer risks … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $3.27 Million in Damages in Transvaginal Mesh Case
Transvaginal Mesh Injury Lawsuits. A West Virginia jury hit Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc. with $3.27 million in damages in a product liability suit over Ethicon's transvaginal mesh sling. The jury found that Ethicon did not warn doctors and patients of the device’s potential risks. Law360 reports that the jury found in … [Read more...]
Vioxx Jury Awards $20M to Idaho Couple
Vioxx Contributed to A Postal Worker's Heart Attack. Merck & Co.'s painkiller Vioxx contributed to an Idaho postal worker's heart attack, a jury in Atlantic City ruled Monday, reversing the verdict in the man's first trial and awarding him and his wife $20 million in damages. The verdict in the case of Frederick "Mike" … [Read more...]
$10M Award for Shipyard Worker’s Widow
Former Shipyard Workers Died Of Lung Cancer Due To An Asbestos Exposure. A jury awarded $10.4 million to the widow of a former shipyard worker who died of lung cancer after four years of working with materials that contained asbestos. The Newport News Circuit Court verdict in Wanda Jones' wrongful death lawsuit against three … [Read more...]
Jury Awards Vioxx Plaintiff $9M in Damages
Vioxx Plaintiff For Heart Attack Risk. A jury awarded $9 million in punitive damages on Tuesday to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx, finding that manufacturer Merck & Co. failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians. The damages are in addition to $4.5 million … [Read more...]
Jury awards $160 million in nursing home suit
Nursing Home Suit Claims An Old Man Paired With A Violent Roommate. After hearing claims that a nursing home knowingly paired a frail 81-year-old man with a violent, mentally ill roommate who viciously pummeled him, a jury responded Wednesday with one of the largest civil judgments ever awarded in San Antonio. Finding that Summit … [Read more...]
Jury Awards Diet-Drug Users $200M
Wyeth Drug May Cause Heart Problems. A Pennsylvania jury decided that two former users of Wyeth's drugs taken as part of the fen-phen diet combination deserved $200 million in damages for heart problems caused by the medicine. Jurors in state court in Philadelphia on May 24 found that Wyeth's weight-loss medicine scarred Margie … [Read more...]
Jury Awards Butter-Flavor Worker $20M
A Butter-Flavor Worker Claimed His Lungs Were Ruined Because Of Flavoring In Popcorn. A factory worker who claimed his lungs were ruined as a result of mixing flavoring oils used in microwave popcorn was awarded $20 million by a jury Monday. Eric Peoples was the first of 30 former workers at the Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. plant in … [Read more...]
Ga. Jury Awards Another $14M in Ford Suit
Ford Pay $14 Million In Punitive Damages. A Georgia jury ordered Ford Motor Co. to pay nearly $14 million in punitive damages Wednesday to the family of a young girl who was paralyzed during a 2000 crash they blamed on a faulty back seat latch in their sedan. The money is atop $33.9 million in compensatory damages the same jury … [Read more...]
Jury Awards S.A. Family $17M In Landfill Case
Toxic Chemicals From A Landfill Can Cause Leukemia. A jury awarded a San Antonio family $17 million after the panel concluded that a now 8-year-old girl developed leukemia due to toxic chemicals from a city landfill. According to the lawsuit, toxic chemicals escaped from the West Avenue Landfill and poisoned the daughter of … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $4.6M in Metabolife Suit
Lawsuit Against Metabolife International. A federal jury awarded $4.6 million in a lawsuit against Metabolife International Inc., agreeing with the plaintiffs that the company sold an appetite suppressant in a defective condition. plaintiffs, Annie McClain, Shirley Franks, Connie Thornburg and Wilmer Hudson, filed suit in 2001 … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $8 million in Cancer Lawsuit
A Woman Sued Her Doctor For Cancer Lawsuit. A Miami jury awarded $8 million to a 44-year-old woman who sued her doctor and the University of Miami, saying her cancer went undiagnosed for 11 months after a mammogram showed a small nodule in one breast. Hyacinth Vassell, who lives in North Miami and worked at Jackson Memorial … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $24M to 7-Year-Old Boy
A Jury Awarded A Brain Damaged Boy. A jury has awarded $24 million to a mentally retarded 7-year-old boy whose mother says his brain damage was caused by doctors at the hospital where he was born. Sheila Dunkle's lawsuit on her son Austin's behalf said emergency room doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital did not properly resuscitate … [Read more...]
$38M Awards To San Jose Family In Malpractice Suit
A Family Won In A Malpractice Suit. A San Jose family has won a 38 million dollar malpractice award after a jury agreed that delayed care for a newborn baby led to serious brain damage. The Santa Clara County Superior Court jury yesterday ruled against the San Jose Medical Group, Doctor Ilene Newman and Regional Medical Center of … [Read more...]
