Florida’s state courts are the among the most accessible to the electronic news media anywhere in the country. The “Sunshine State” stayed true to its nickname by being a pioneer decades ago in granting news cameras largely unfettered access to public judicial proceedings.
Topics: Products Liability, Asbestos, Medical Malpractice, Florida
Medical malpractice trials often turn on the testimony of the defendant health care provider. And in an interview with CVN, Searcy Denney’s Ed Ricci and Matt Schwencke detailed how they turned a defendant physician’s own cross-exam testimony against him to win a $4.9 million med mal verdict.
Topics: Medical Malpractice, Florida, Gray v. Iakovidis, CVN Discovery
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Miami, FL— A Florida appellate court last week upheld a $7.25 million award for the heart disease jurors found was caused by a decades-long addiction to R.J. Reynolds cigarettes.
Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Rouse v. R.J. Reynolds
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Miami, FL— Face shields. Plexiglass barriers. Jurors in the gallery.
Welcome to trial in the age of coronavirus.
Topics: Florida
Causation is a key battle line in nutraceutical product liability cases. And at trial over the liver failure a man suffered after taking green tea extract, Edward Nicklaus’s compelling closing on causation helped clear a Kroger-owned nutrition company.
Topics: Products Liability, Florida, McCants v. Vitacost.com Inc.
