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Decatur, GA—A jury next week is scheduled to consider whether an Atlanta-area women’s college is responsible for the role its campus police played in a sexual assault investigation that a former University of Tennessee student claims led to her false arrest, imprisonment, and a beating by inmates. Hartley v. Agnes Scott College, 11A36461-4.
Topics: Tort, Georgia, Hartley v. Agnes Scott College
Jacksonville, FL—Jurors awarded $6.4 million to the family of a Florida smoker who died of emphysema, but handed down a $0 punitive verdict Thursday, one day after finding R.J. Reynolds potentially liable for punitives for its role in the smoker's death. Prentice v. R.J. Reynolds, 2008-CA-000386.
Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Prentice v. R.J. Reynolds
Arguing pain and suffering damages presents a unique problem to a plaintiffs' attorney: how to measure that amount in a way that resonates with jurors. In a wrongful death, medical malpractice trial, Henry Spiegel Milling's Philip Henry delivered a closing argument that led jurors to return an eight-figure award. Marion v. North Fulton Hospital.
Topics: Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Marion v. Little
Melbourne, FL—Attorneys debated what drove a Florida man to smoke up to 2 packs of cigarettes a day for more than 30 years, even after doctors diagnosed him with the lung cancer that eventually killed him, as trial opened Tuesday against the country's two largest cigarette makers. Wallace v. Philip Morris, 2014-CA-052862.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Wallace v. Philip Morris
