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Updated 10/8/19:
Atlanta, GA-- Fulton County State Court Judge Jane Morrison declared a mistrial Tuesday afternoon in Georgia’s first case to go to trial over alleged links between Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based Baby Powder and a woman’s death from ovarian cancer. Brower v. Johnson & Johnson, 16EV005534.
Topics: Products Liability, Georgia, Talc, Brower v. Johnson & Johnson
Topics: Medical Malpractice, healthcare, Nevada
Arguing damages stemming solely from non-economic loss can be difficult: A jury has no hard set of numbers to use as a starting point in calculating an award, while surviving plaintiffs' ability to cope following an incident can be used as an argument to mitigate non-economic loss. However, in closings of a 2019 damages-only trial over the death of a Florida mother hours after childbirth, Todd Michaels secured an eight-figure win by upending a defense contention on non-economic loss.
Topics: Medical Malpractice, Florida, vargas-chavez v. gonzalez-garcia, et al.
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CVN’s Feature Trial for October — available gavel-to-gavel and on demand to all of our FREE CVN account members — saw a Georgia doctor cleared at trial over a patient’s death following hernia surgery. Morgan v. Hixon, 2012-CV-224094.
Topics: Morgan v. Hixon
