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Tobacco Firms Cleared of Liability in $50M Trial Over Smoker's Deadly Lung Cancer

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Sep 25, 2015, 4:41:00 PM

Hildy Sastre delivers closing arguments in Alicia Suarez's suit against Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds for the lung cancer death of Suarez's husband. Jurors found in favor of the tobacco companies Tuesday.

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Topics: Negligence, Products Liability, tobacco, Florida, Suarez v. Philip Morris

(UPDATE) Jury Awards $20.5 Million in Emory Clinic Sleep Center Wrongful Death Case

Posted by Steve Silver on Sep 23, 2015, 5:55:00 PM

  
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Georgia

First Tylenol Liver Damage Trial Against J&J Begins In New Jersey

Posted by David Siegel on Sep 23, 2015, 1:30:00 PM

Atlantic City — The first case to go to trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer Healthcare failed to give adequate warnings about the risks of taking high doses of Tylenol began Monday in New Jersey state court, in a woman’s suit alleging she suffered liver damage after taking the best-selling over the counter painkiller.

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Topics: Products Liability, Pharmaceutical, healthcare

High-Stakes Suit Over J&J’s ‘Prosima’ Pelvic Mesh Goes To Trial In Texas

Posted by David Siegel on Sep 22, 2015, 7:46:00 PM

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Topics: Products Liability, Malpractice, healthcare

ER Staff Cleared in $3M Malpractice Suit over Child's Death

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Sep 18, 2015, 4:07:00 PM

Kevin O'Connor argues that nurse Donna Newhard and physician Alberto Marin did not breach their duty of care to seven-year-old Christopher Cassion during a 2011 emergency room visit. The child died, allegedly from bacterial meningitis, eight days after being discharged from the ER. 

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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Florida, Vanterpool v Newhard