UPDATE: CVN has been informed that the trial is continued to a date not yet determined.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Chinese Drywall, Harrell v. South Kendall, Mass Torts
CVN Dockethas been updated -- click to see the most current version of the CVN Docket.
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Topics: CVN Docket
Doffermyre Shields' Bob Shields began his opening statement to the jury, in the retrial of Warrick v. R.J. Reynolds, "It was just before Christmas in 1953 when the heads of the major tobacco companies got together for a secret meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York City to decide what to do about the mounting scientific evidence that cigarette smoking caused cancer.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Engle Progeny, Warrick v. RJ Reynolds, Tobacco Litigation
According to Abrahamson & Uiterwyk's Hendrik Uiterwyk, in Willis v. R.J. Reynolds, plaintiff Jimmy Willis suffered from laryngeal cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) caused by Willis' addiction to smoking. Mr. Willis stopped smoking in 1993 after he contracted laryngeal cancer, and as a result of the surgery, could only speak or breathe through a hole is his throat.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Willis v. Reynolds, Engle Progeny, Tobacco Litigation
In Collum v. Knife River, a Sacramento jury determined that employer Concrete Inc. discriminated against disabled employee Stewart Collum by failing to provide a reasonable accommodation, and by failing to engage in an interactive process to determine if a reasonable accommodation were possible. The jury awarded $15K in damages.
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Topics: Employment Law
