$14.3M Verdict Against Boston Scientific
Injuries Allegedly Caused by the Boston Scientific Pelvic Mesh Devices. Three plaintiffs over injuries allegedly caused by the pelvic mesh devices. On October 3, 2016, a West Virginia federal judge rejected Boston Scientific Corp.'s appeal to overturn a $14.3 million award to three plaintiffs over injuries allegedly caused … [Read more...]
Jury Selection Begins for DePuy Pinnacle Bellwether Trial
The Third Bellwether Trial in the DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Litigation DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Litigation Began. Jury selection for the third bellwether trial in the DePuy Pinnacle hip implant litigation began on Monday, Sept. 19 in federal court in Dallas, Texas. The multidistrict litigation (MDL) is being overseen by U.S. … [Read more...]
$70M Verdict in Risperdal Gynecomastia Trial
The Largest Award Made in a Risperdal Gynecomastia Trial. In the largest award yet made in a Risperdal gynecomastia trial, last week a Philadelphia jury awarded $70 million to a Tennessee boy who developed female breasts (gynecomastia) after taking the antipsychotic drug Risperdal. This case was the fifth Risperdal gynecomastia … [Read more...]
$46.5M Awarded by Jury in Most Recent PCB Lawsuit
Punitive Damages Over PCB Lawsuit. A St. Louis jury awarded $46.5 million to plaintiffs in a month-long trial that began April 28. The jury voted awarded $17.5 million in damages and $29 million in punitive damages against Monsanto alleging negligence in the production of PCBs. The plaintiffs claimed exposure to polychlorinated … [Read more...]
DePuy Pinnacle Bellwether Trial Goes to the Jury
DePuy Pinnacle Trials Goes To The Jury. Testimony has finished in the bellwether trial involving the DePuy Orthopaedics Pinnacle metal on metal hip implant, and the case has gone to the jury. The outcome of this case could be for the disposition of a number of pending cases. The five plaintiffs in the case allege the Pinnacle hip … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $11M in First Bellwether Trial
A Follow Up to the $11 Million Award Against Wright Medical Conserve Hip Replacement System in First Bellwether Trial. Back in 2015, Parker Waichman LLP reported that the first bellwether trial resulted in a plaintiff receiving a jury award of $11 million in damages due to injuries associated with her Wright Medical Conserve Hip … [Read more...]
First Bellwether Trial Begins
Thousands Of Patients Developed Bladder Cancer The first Actos bellwether trial is moving forward and jury selection has taken place. Thousands of patients in the ongoing Actos litigation allege that they developed bladder cancer as a result of taking Actos (pioglitazone). Specifically, the couple who brought the case in the first … [Read more...]
Jury Awards South Dakota Woman $3.35M in Transvaginal Mesh Verdict
$3.35M in Transvaginal Mesh Verdict. Jurors in New Jersey have awarded a woman $3.35 million in compensatory damages in the first trial involving an allegedly defective transvaginal mesh surgical device, the Gynecare Prolift. According to Bloomberg, jurors will now consider punitive damages against the division of Johnson & … [Read more...]
Jury selection begins in Bellwether Transvaginal Mesh Case
Bellwether Transvaginal Mesh Case. Jury selection has begun in the case of one woman who claims the transvaginal mesh device she received in a surgery was defective and caused her to suffer serious and permanent injuries. This is the first case involving product liability claims against the maker of a transvaginal mesh device and, … [Read more...]
Jury selection begins in first DePuy ASR hip implant trial
DePuy ASR Hip Implant Trial. Johnson & Johnson is currently facing the first of what could be thousands of charges that a metal-on-metal hip implant it manufactured was defective - and that the company knew of this - and put recipients at greater risk of serious injuries over other hip implants. According to a … [Read more...]
Jury Awards Popcorn Lung Victim $30 Million
A Man has been awarded In A Lawsuit. A man who worked at a Flavorchem Corp. plant in the Chicago area has been awarded $30 million in a Popcorn Lung lawsuit. According to a report in the Joplin Globe, the verdict is the largest rendered to date in a lawsuit involving the chemical diacetyl, an ingredient in butter … [Read more...]
Duragesic Pain Patch Killed Woman
Duragesic Pain Patch Fatal Overdose. The makers of the Duragesic Pain Patch have been held liable for the death of an Illinois woman. According to the Associated Press, a jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson subsidiaries, Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc. and ALZA Corp, to pay the woman's family $16.6 … [Read more...]
Jury: Merck Liable in Elderly Man’s Death
Merck Liable For The Death Of A Man Who Suffered From Heart Attack. A state jury found Merck & Co. liable Friday for the death of a 71-year-old man who had a fatal heart attack within a month of taking its since-withdrawn painkiller Vioxx and ordered the company to pay $32 million. The damage award will likely be reduced … [Read more...]
Jury: Merck Liable for Man’s Heart Attack
Jury Found Merck Liable In A Split Verdict. A jury found Merck & Co. liable on Wednesday for one of two former Vioxx users' heart attacks in a split verdict that awarded $4.5 million in damages to one of the plaintiffs. The state jury found the company failed to adequately warn both men about the risk factors linking the … [Read more...]
Jury Awards Bus Crash Victims $17.5 Million
Bus Involved In A Crash Didn't Have Seat Belts. A McLennan County jury decided Thursday that the bus involved in a deadly 2003 Interstate 35 crash near Hewitt was defective because it didn't have seat belts and awarded $17.5 million in damages to bus passengers. After 15 hours of deliberation, jurors in the four-week accident … [Read more...]
$30.4M Awards Against Ford Lawsuit
Jury Awarded The Family Of A Teenager In A Lawsuit Against Ford. A Texas jury awarded the family of a Brownsville teenager $30.4 million in damages and medical expenses Monday, finding that Ford Motor Co. was primarily at fault in the death of a 16-year-old who was killed in a March 2004 accident. The family had sued the … [Read more...]
Merck Loses Vioxx Case
Jury Awarded A Widow In Damages Over Vioxx Case. DOBBS: A jury tonight in Texas finding a of a man who took its blockbuster painkiller drug Vioxx. The jury awarded his widow more than a quarter of a billion dollars in damages after reviewing evidence that links the drug to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. This is the … [Read more...]
Jury Rules Against Merck
Americans With Arthritis, Merck Vioxx And Drugs Like It Were A Godsend. The story is about as old as medicine itself. A treatment comes along and offers hope, then something goes wrong. For millions of Americans with arthritis, and other chronic pain, Vioxx and drugs like it were a godsend, for drug companies, too, not to mention … [Read more...]
Jury Faults Doctor In HMO Death Lawsuit
A Family Awarded Over HMO Death Lawsuit. A jury awarded $1 million to the family of a man whose stomach cancer was overlooked by a Norwood, Mass., doctor in a malpractice case that lawyers say exposes physicians' incentives to limit care to HMO patients. Kimiyoshi Matsuyama, 46, of Sharon, died of gastric cancer in 1999. … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $1.5 Million
A Family That Sued Trinity Hospital And Two Heart Doctors Over Medical Malpractice. A jury has awarded more than $1.5 million to a family that sued Trinity Hospital and two heart doctors for medical malpractice. Michele Eberle sued Trinity and Dr. Martin Rothberg, a heart surgeon, and Dr. Clarence Pearson, a … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $3.3M In Air Bag Case
Jury Found Ford Negligent Over Defective Air Bags. A jury found Ford Motor Co. negligent and awarded $3.3 million to the 7-year-old son of a woman killed when the air bag of her Ford Taurus deployed in a low-speed accident. Mayling Semidey, 29, a single mother, hit a concrete retaining wall at about 9 mph in 2000. The air bag went … [Read more...]
Jury Awards $1.38 Million Verdict In Anniston Malpractice Case
A Jury Awarded A Family In A Malpractice Case. A jury awarded nearly $1.38 million to the family of a 77-year-old Jacksonville man who died at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center while recovering from surgery for lung cancer. The jury returned the medical malpractice verdict against the Anniston hospital and a … [Read more...]
Jury Hits Ford With $18M Judgment
Ford Plan To Appeal A Jury's Decision That It Must Pay. Attorneys for Ford Motor Co. said they plan to appeal a Cameron County jury's decision earlier this month that it must pay $18 million to a local resident who was confined to a wheelchair after a 2001 accident in his Ford pickup truck. "We will do what the court tells us to … [Read more...]
Jury Reaches Verdict In Collapsing Fire Ladder Case, Says Law firm of Parker & Waichman
Collapse Of A Fire Ladder. NEW YORK, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the collapse of an aerial fire ladder during an attempted fire rescue in 1994, a loving husband and father plunged to his death while his family and a New York City firefighter were severely injured. On Friday, April 28, a Brooklyn Jury found that the City … [Read more...]
$4.9-Billion Jury Award Slams GM
GM Was Slapped With The Largest Penalty In A Product Liability Case. General Motors Corp. was slapped Friday with the largest penalty ever handed out in a product-liability case, a $4.9-billion judgment a Los Angeles jury awarded to six passengers severely burned in a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu. On Christmas Eve 1993, a drunken … [Read more...]
