Jurors who wanted to send a message to the trucking industry awarded $58.5 million to the estate and family of a Carlsbad, N.M. man fatally injured in a 2010 accident when his vehicle collided with an oil industry tanker. The …
The family of an Iraq War veteran who was fatally shot by a police officer wanted to settle a lawsuit against the city of Albuquerque for $1 million before a judge ruled in February that the veteran was unlawfully killed. …
A judge has overturned an $8.5 million verdict awarded to a former “Price is Right” model in a pregnancy discrimination case and ruled a new trial is necessary. Judge Kevin Brazile ruled Tuesday that he didn’t properly instruct the jury …
A jury awarded $8.3 million to a former prison guard who accused Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary of knowingly marketing a faulty hip implant that was later recalled. Jurors found that the ASR XL implant was defectively designed and …
A Sacramento Superior Court jury hit Emeritus Corp. with $23 million in punitive damages in the wrongful death and elder abuse lawsuit filed and won by the family of an 82-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s disease who died after a stay …
A federal jury has awarded a former sergeant $750,000 in a lawsuit over his departure from the Roseburg police force. The Roseburg News-Review reported that Gregrey Fetsch argued the city didn’t give him a chance to clear his name before …
A jury said Johnson & Johnson should pay a South Dakota woman $3.35 million for failing to adequately warn her doctor of the potential dangers of a vaginal mesh implant made by the company’s Ethicon Inc. subsidiary, and for misrepresenting …
A Fresno County jury has awarded $8.5 million in a lawsuit alleging county social workers failed to protect a 10-year-old boy who was fatally beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. The civil jury handed down its verdict on Friday, awarding $5 …
Usually staunch adversaries, doctors and trial lawyers have both gotten behind an Oregon bill creating a new mediation process for patients injured by medical mistakes, which is aimed at reducing medical liability claims. Gov. John Kitzhaber, a doctor, called their …
A jury has awarded a former BNSF Railway Co. employee $1.7 million in damages in a civil lawsuit. The Great Falls Tribune reported jurors found BNSF negligently injured Robert Dannels’ spine by assigning him work that caused trauma over the …
