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Store employee wins $95 million sexual harassment verdict
An Illinois federal jury has awarded a $95 million verdict – including $80 million in punitive damages – to a store worker who claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager while the...
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Wrongfully convicted man wins $25 million verdict
A man who was wrongly arrested and imprisoned for murder at age 13 and exonerated more than 16 years later has been awarded $25 million by a federal jury in Chicago. Jurors found that the City of...
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Jury awards $126.6 million in failure-to-diagnose verdict
A New York woman who claims she sat unattended in a hospital for hours while medical personnel negligently failed to diagnose her heart attack has won a $126.6 million jury verdict. Debora Sohl, an...
View ArticleJury awards $285K in Fosamax case
In the latest bellwether case to go to trial over the osteoporosis drug Fosamax, a New York federal jury has awarded $285,000 to a woman who suffered injuries to her jaw after using the drug. The jury...
View ArticleHuge award against college exceeds expectations
Even the victorious plaintiff’s attorney in a lawsuit against a technical college in Missouri is a bit surprised that jurors returned a punitive damage award of almost 470 times the plaintiff’s actual...
View ArticlePainter wins harassment complaint against her union
A federal jury awarded $500,001 to a journeyman painter and wallpaper hanger, finding her union and one of its officers retaliated against the woman after she complained of sexual harassment. Lesa...
View ArticleBirth-injury case to go another round
The parents of a boy born in 2010 with cerebral palsy and other serious disabilities will urge Maryland’s top court to reinstate a $28.3 million medical malpractice verdict against the Johns Hopkins...
View ArticleVirginia man gets $14M for airbag failure claim
A Virginia jury has awarded $14 million to a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury blamed on alleged safety lapses in his Hyundai car. The verdict may be a record for a products claim in Southwest...
View ArticlePsychiatric patient’s suit against ER revived on appeal
A psychiatric patient who was badly injured when he walked out of an emergency room and jumped from a nearby bridge can sue the hospital for allegedly failing to keep sufficient tabs on him, the...
View ArticleMed-mal interest rate ruling gets R.I. bar’s notice
In a ruling that is being hailed by the plaintiffs’ bar, the Rhode Island Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the state statute that mandates 12 percent interest on...
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