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Over the last few months, CVN has covered top attorneys in a wide range of blockbuster trials around the country, including a pair of headline-making crash cases and a major medical malpractice proceeding. Watch critical closing moments in three of the recent proceedings we’ve covered.
$198M+ Total Award in Fatal Crash Trial Against Ex-Big Leaguer & Socialite
Last month, a California jury awarded $198 million at trial against former MLB pitcher Scott Erickson and socialite Rebecca Grossman for the deaths of two children Grossman struck as the pair allegedly street-raced. The total award includes $176 million in compensatory damages and $22.17 million in punitives, with $21 million of that punitive award imposed against Grossman and $1.17 million imposed against Erickson.
In closings of the trial’s first phase, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi's Brian Panish set out the conduct he says warranted imposing punitive damages against the pair.
“Does a reasonable person accept people speeding; driving with alcohol, drugs; killing two kids; leaving [the scene]; denying everything? Is that what a reasonable person would think is vile, base, contemptible? Absolutely.”
Doctor Cleared in Med Mal Case Over Fatal Bowel Obstruction
In April, an Arizona jury cleared a gastroenterologist of responsibility for the 2019 bowel obstruction death of a patient.
Attorneys for the man’s family had sought more than $26 million in the case. However, in closings, Broening Oberg Woods & Wilson's Michelle Donovan told jurors the patient suffered from a rare complication following gastric bypass surgery, and that labs and other indicators at the time supported a belief he was improving before a sudden, unexpected turn for the worse.
“There’s a big difference in this case between what the clinicians knew in May of 2019 at [the hospital] and what we know now.”
$33M Verdict for Man Injured School Bus Crash
A Michigan jury delivered a $33 million award for the brain and back injuries a man says he suffered when his truck was struck by a school bus that ran a red light.
In closings of the trial over damages, Marko Law PLLC’s Jonathan Marko told jurors the defendant school bus company refused to accept responsibility for the action.
“But to have the [company] not take any responsibility, still to this day, even after the judge ruled that they’re responsible in this case, is not how this is supposed to work.”
Email Arlin Crisco at acrisco@cvn.com.
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