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CVN's Top 10 Most Impressive Defense Verdicts of 2019

Posted by David Siegel on Jan 10, 2020 1:13:24 PM

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Topics: Products Liability, Medical Malpractice, Florida, Georgia, California, Talc

Trial Opens Against Philip Morris Over 41-Year-Old Smoker's Fatal Cancer

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Jan 10, 2020 1:06:40 PM

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Jacksonville, FL— Attorneys Thursday argued over what drove a Florida man to smoke for more than 25 years, as trial began against Philip Morris over the man’s cancer death. Cuddihee v. Philip Morris, 2008CA000398.

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Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida, Cuddihee v. Philip Morris

CVN's Top 10 Most Impressive Plaintiff Verdicts of 2019

Posted by David Siegel on Jan 3, 2020 1:25:07 PM

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Topics: Products Liability, Florida, Georgia, California, Talc

Pair of Lawyers Named CVN Engle Plaintiff's Attorneys of 2019

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Jan 3, 2020 11:30:00 AM

CVN’s unequaled Engle progeny tobacco trial coverage spotlighted a host of headline grabbing moments in 2019. The ongoing litigation includes thousands of cases spun from a decertified class action against the country’s tobacco companies. And, for more than a decade now, Engle progeny trials have seen the country’s best attorneys in courtrooms across Florida.

CVN’s Engle Plaintiff’s Attorneys of 2019 are a pair that served as the common link through a blockbuster trio of trial wins. 

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Topics: tobacco, Engle Progeny, Florida

|VIDEO| How Louis La Cava's Closing Helped Clear Doctors at Trial Over Woman's Ectopic Pregnancy

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 9, 2019 11:09:48 AM


Defense attorneys in medical negligence cases must often overcome jurors’ natural tendency to engage in hindsight bias when they consider a doctor’s care. At trial over the communication and treatment surrounding a Florida woman’s ectopic pregnancy, Louis La Cava’s closing on staff expectations and an artful warning on hindsight bias helped clear the doctors that treated her.

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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Florida, Santana v. Exodus Women's Health, et al.