Smith v. Walmart (Las Vegas, NV). After fiery closing arguments, a jury found Wackenhut, but not Walmart, liable for inadequate security in a Walmart parking lot where a Walmart customer was murdered. The jury awarded over $1M in damages.
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Topics: Smith v. Walmart, Premises Liability, Negligence
Hatziyannakis v. Philip Morris (Fort Lauderdale, FL).
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Hatziyannakis v. RJR, Engle Progeny, Tobacco Litigation
Rosenberg v. Merck -- A New Jersey jury this morning found that a Fosamax user did not suffer from osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ), and therefore she failed to show that Fosamax caused the harm.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Pharmaceutical, In re: Fosamax
Huish v. R.J. Reynolds involves John Huish, who was born in 1929. Mr. Huish started smoking cigarettes as a teenager in the mid or late 1940's, approximately 20 years before the first caution label appeared on a pack of cigarettes. Mr. Huish died of small cell lung cancer in 1993, at the age of 64. The case was brought by Mr. Huish's widow, Anna Louise Huish.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Engle Progeny, Tobacco Litigation, Huish v. RJR
The jury in Kirkland v. R.J. Reynolds took the advice of Jones Day's Stephen Kaczyinski and awarded just $250K in punitive damages against R.J. Reynolds, the smallest punitive damages award yet in an Engle case in which punitive damages were found to be warranted.
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