J&J Hit with $20M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict in Philadelphia
Legal Loss Over Transvaginal Mesh Implants Jurors Award $20M to Woman Implanted with Transvaginal Mesh Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon suffered its most recent legal loss over transvaginal mesh implants in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, where a jury returned a $20 million verdict against the companies. The product … [Read more...]
$20M Award in Ethicon Pelvic Mesh Verdict
Multimillion-Dollar Award in Third Consecutive Lawsuit Against J&J/Ethicon Over TVT Pelvic Mesh Device. In the third consecutive eight-figure jury award against healthcare giant, Johnson & Johnson, a New Jersey woman, 56, was awarded $20 million over alleged injuries following a vaginal mesh implant. The case is part of a … [Read more...]
$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 by the … [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...]
Nearly $500M Verdict Returned Over J&J DePuy Pinnacle Metal Hip Trial
Bellwether Trial Brought Against Johnson & Johnson DePuy Pinnacle. A jury just found in favor of five individuals who allege that the DePuy Orthopaedics Pinnacle metal hip device failed and led to significant damage. The case was the second bellwether trial brought against Johnson & Johnson and ended with a massive $500 million … [Read more...]
Fourth Circuit Upholds Verdict in Transvaginal Mesh Case
Transvaginal Mesh Case Verdict. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the first jury verdict arising from multidistrict litigation involving more than 70,000 cases against the makers of transvaginal mesh medical devices. The jury had awarded a woman and her husband $250,000 in compensatory damages and … [Read more...]
Abbott Loses First Verdict in Depakote Litigation
First Verdict in Depakote Litigation. A state-court jury in St. Louis, Missouri ordered Abbott Laboratories to pay $23 million in punitive damages in a case over the company's anti-seizure drug, Depakote. Bloomberg reports that it is the first verdict against Abbott over the drug, which allegedly caused birth defects in a … [Read more...]
$5.7 Million Verdict against Johnson & Johnson in Pelvic Mesh Case
Verdict Against Pelvic Mesh Case. A California jury returned a $5.7 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson last week in the first test case over one of its newest pelvic mesh slings. Similar devices have been named in thousands of lawsuits across the country. Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary, Ethicon Inc., has lost … [Read more...]
Asbestos Verdict Against Bus Manufacturer Navistar
Asbestos Verdict Against Navistar. A jury in Syracuse, New York, returned a $7.7 million verdict in a wrongful death suit brought against bus manufacturer Navistar International Corp. by the widow of a school bus driver who died of mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos in the school district’s garage. The verdict was … [Read more...]
Morning Song Birdseed, Other Wild Birdseed by Scotts Miracle-Gro Treated with Toxic Pesticides
Morning Song Birdseed Contaminated With Toxic Pesticides. Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm dedicated to protecting the legal rights of consumers injured by defective products, is investigating potential claims regarding Morning Song birdseed products, as well as other brands of wild birdseed manufactured by the Scotts … [Read more...]
Punitive Damage Award Brings Lorillard Tobacco Verdict to $41 Million
$25 Million Plaintiff In A Lorillard Tobacco Lawsuit. Punitive damages of $25 million have been granted to a plaintiff in a Florida tobacco lawsuit, bringing the total awarded to $41 million. Earlier this month, Dorothy Alexander—who sued the Lorillard Tobacco Company, the oldest tobacco company in the U.S., for the wrongful death … [Read more...]
New Trial Sought in Lead Poisoning Lawsuit
Lead Poisoning Lawsuit New Trial. Following a jury verdict of $7 million for making lead paint that allegedly caused harm to a Mississippi athlete, paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams, has a filed for a new trial, according to PublicNuisanceWire.com. It seems, said PublcNuisanceWire.com, that as a result of ingesting lead paint … [Read more...]
Merck $47M Verdict in Vioxx Case
Merck & Co. Ordered To Pay In Damages In Vioxx Case. On Monday, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. was ordered to pay $47.5 million in damages after a New Jersey jury decided that the company’s Vioxx medication was responsible for an Idaho man’s heart attack. The jury awarded $20 million in compensatory damages to Frederick … [Read more...]
Verdict Reached in Two Vioxx Cases
Merck Misled Medical Professionals And Consumers About The Risk Of Vioxx. Jurors in a New Jersey courtroom decided today that Merck misled medical professionals and consumers about the risks associated with Vioxx, the company’s discredited pain medication, and in one of the cases did not provide adequate warnings about the … [Read more...]
Woman wins $3 million verdict in case over Prempro link to cancer
A Woman Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer After Taking Prempro. Jennie Nelson, 67, of Dayton, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001 after taking Prempro for five years to treat symptoms of menopause. Her lawyers said Wyeth knew for decades the drug could cause breast cancer, but failed to warn patients. More than 5,000 women … [Read more...]
Nation’s sixth Vioxx verdict returned
$32M Against Merck's Vioxx Verdict. Starr County jurors returned a $32 million verdict against Merck & Co. in the nation's sixth Vioxx trial. After deliberating for more than eight hours, jurors declared Merck liable for the fatal heart attack of Leonel Garza, 71, in 2001. They awarded $25 million in punitive damages and $7 … [Read more...]
Jury Awards Pilot’s Family $10M in Wrongful Death Case
Ontario Widow And Kids Will Receive $4M Over Wrongful Death Case. The Miami Herald is reporting that an Ontario widow and her seven children will receive $4 million following a verdict for $10 million rendered by a Miami-Dade jury. The verdict ends a wrongful death lawsuit that alleged the engine on Derek Anthony Leung’s plane had … [Read more...]
Georgia-Pacific Hit With $9 Million Asbestos Verdict
A Jury Awarded A Family Over Asbestos Verdict. A Dallas, Texas, jury has awarded $9.3 million to the family of an East Texas man who died from a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibers as a child. Attorneys for the family of Timothy Shawn Bostic argued the man was exposed to asbestos while working with his father as a child … [Read more...]
Lawsuit Seeks Millions From Honda For Girl Injured By Airbag
A Girl Paralyzed After Honda Airbag Severed Her Spine. Attorneys for a 7-year-old girl paralyzed after an airbag nearly severed her spine asked a Broward Circuit Court jury on Monday to level a verdict of more than $110 million against Honda Motor Co. Calling the airbag "a bomb behind the dashboard," Ashley Moore's attorneys … [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 former … [Read more...]
Calif. High Court Upholds Ford Case
California Supreme Court Let Stand A Verdict Against Ford. The California Supreme Court on Wednesday let stand a $290 million verdict against the Ford Motor Co. over a deadly 1993 rollover accident involving a Ford Bronco. The justices decided without comment not to review an appeal from the automaker, which in court papers called … [Read more...]
Intersection: Defendant Facing Stop Sign 385,000 Verdict: Radius Fracture
Defendant Facing Stop Sign Verdict. A 29-year-old male student suffered a radius and metacarpal fracture to the right hand, resulting in a 20 percent loss of use, and a dislocated right wrist, requiring closed reduction and subsequent open reduction and internal fixation, when the vehicle in which he was a passenger, operated by a … [Read more...]
Verdict Expected Soon on Toxic Air Aboard Jets
Complaints About Toxic Air. Three Alaska Airlines managers conducted an extraordinary experiment on an MD-80 jet in 1996. Frustrated by complaints about noxious mists on MD-80 flights, the managers tried to recreate the problem on a jet parked inside a hangar. John Fowler, then chief of maintenance, ordered a mechanic to squirt 8 … [Read more...]
MOTOR VEHICLE SETTLEMENT: $2 million
Motor Vehicle Verdict Settlement. Ricardo Carrillo v. Penske Truck Leasing Co.; JEFCO, Inc.; and Benefacio Rodriguez 26286/98 JUSTICE: Peter J. O'Donoghue ATTORNEYS: Partner at Parker & Waichman, Great Neck for plaintiff; Mitchell Teitelbaum of Torino & Bernstein, P.C., Mineola for defendant. FACTS: The accident … [Read more...]
$2.19M Labor Law Verdict
Labor Law Verdict. Tiziano Sozzi, a 38-year-old painter and plasterer, was injured on when the ladder he was working on collapsed. Tiziano Sozzi v. Gramercy Realty Company No. 2 LP 22523/98 March 15 Kings Supreme JUDGE: Ira B. Harkavy ATTORNEYS: Andy F. of Parker & Waichman, Great Neck. Elsa Rodriguez Preston of … [Read more...]
Premises Liability: Fall At Public Administration Building 225,000 Verdict: Aggravated Disc Damage
The Defendant Contended Premises Liability. A 37-year-old male police officer suffered an aggravated disc injury at L4-5 when he tripped and fell while descending a stairwell in a building owned by the defendant city. The plaintiff contended that the defendant failed to safely maintain the premises, failed to warn of a dangerous … [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 of New … [Read more...]
Personal Injury Verdict: $2.782 Million
Plaintiff In A Personal Injury Verdict. Tawaon Fields v. Transit Authority, 8680/94 Supreme Court, Bronx County, May 19, 1997. JUDGE: Joseph N. Giamboi. ATTORNEYS: Herbert L. Waichman and James G. Fitsimons of Parker & Waichman, Great Neck, for Tawaon Fields. Rudolph N. Silas, Brooklyn, for New York City Transit … [Read more...]
