Stock image.
Sarasota, FL— Attorneys Monday debated the fallout from injuries a Florida teenager suffered in a 2022 crash, as a damages trial opened against the driver responsible and his employer. Gerlt v Odon, 2023-CA-001479.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Florida, Gerlt, et al. v. Odon, et al.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Florida, Georgia, California, Missouri
Stock image.
West Palm Beach, FL— R.J. Reynolds Monday prevailed at trial seeking punitive damages for the respiratory disease a Florida man developed after decades of smoking. Spurlock v. R.J. Reynolds, 2007-CA-023631.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: tobacco, Florida, Spurlock v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
When properly framed, an appeal to jurors’ “common sense” can be one of the most powerful rhetorical points in any attorney’s closing argument. And in closings at trial over a rear-end collision that injured a Florida woman, Keith Mitnik’s convincing appeal to "common sense" helped set up a seven-figure verdict.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: Florida, Alexander v. Rojas, et al., Playlist
Stock image.
Miami, FL— Jurors last week cleared Philip Morris of responsibility for the laryngeal cancer a Florida woman developed after years of smoking the company’s "Virginia Slims" cigarettes. Santana v. Philip Morris.
0 Comments Click here to read/write comments
Topics: tobacco, Florida, Santana v. Philip Morris
