Richard Diaz says a decades-long tobacco industry conspiracy led to James "J.R." Ewing's nicotine addiction and respiratory disease. Ewing died in 2009, and his wife, Doris Ewing, is suing cigarette makers R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.
Pensacola, FL—Attorneys drew battle lines over the reasons behind a long-time smoker’s respiratory disease as trial opened last week in a suit by his widow against the makers of the cigarettes her husband smoked. Ewing v. R.J. Reynolds, 2009-CA-002791.
Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Engle Progeny, Ewing v. R.J. Reynolds
Experts are often the most crucial witnesses in a trial: their testimony, and how they present it to a jury, can turn a verdict. In this series, CVN analyzes the nation’s most important experts, their testimony, and their impact on a trial’s verdict. Today we look at one of the nation's leading thoracic surgeons.
Topics: Negligence, hubbird v. r.j. reynolds, Experts
Topics: Negligence, Pharmaceutical, Malpractice, healthcare, California, Jenny Hyoung v. Kyoung Yoo MD
Top defense attorneys won key CVN-covered trials throughout Georgia in 2015. CVN Georgia's 2015 Defense Attorney of the Year earned the honor going undefeated in two major medical malpractice trials in front of CVN cameras.
Topics: Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Bailey v. Corso, Aiken v. Newton Health System, Georgia Attorney of the Year
With more than a dozen million-dollar-plus verdicts captured by CVN cameras in Georgia throughout 2015, the field was crowded with worthy candidates for CVN Georgia's Plaintiff's Attorney of the Year honor. This year's winner earned the distinction with a landmark award in a products liability case that made headlines across the country.
Topics: Georgia, Walden v. Chrysler Group LLC, Georgia Attorney of the Year
