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Record $240M Award for Abuse of Disabled Workers Slashed to $1.6M

A jury verdict earlier this month to mentally disabled workers who were abused and forced to live in a “house of horrors” has been drastically slashed after trial....more

5/20/2013 - ADA Disability Discrimination Jury Verdicts Mental Illness

Court Overturns $6.5M Verdict In First Actos Trial

Soon after a jury awarded $6.5 million to a California man who claimed the diabetes drug Actos caused him to develop bladder cancer, a court erased the verdict....more

5/17/2013 - Actos Prescription Drugs Settlement

Yamaha Must Pay $3.3M for Selling Dangerous Rhino

Rhino-maker Yamaha Motor Corporation must pay $3.3 million for an unsafe 660 UTV vehicle that overturned and crushed its driver....more

5/14/2013 - Product Recalls Safety Precautions Yamaha

$240M to Disabled Workers Abused in Company’s ‘House Of Horrors’

A turkey processing company has been ordered by a jury to pay a whopping $240 million for paying mentally disabled workers 41 cents per hour and housing them in a rodent-infested “house of horrors.”...more

5/6/2013 - Disability Discrimination EEOC Jury Awards Mental Illness Workplace Violence

$7.7M for Patient’s Death During Struggle With Caregivers

A jury awarded $7.7 million for the death of a patient who suffocated during a struggle with her caregivers. Thirty-three year old Lauren Arcady was developmentally disabled, suffered from schizophrenia, and had a...more

5/1/2013 - Caregivers Jury Awards Mental Illness Patients Wrongful Death

High School Football Player Wins $11.5M for Concussion

A jury awarded $11.5 million to a former high school football player accusing helmet maker Riddell Sports, Inc. of causing brain injuries he suffered as a teenager....more

4/25/2013 - Football School Sports Sports Traumatic Brain Injuries

Blue Cross Must Pay $4M For Dropping Patient-Advocate Doc

A doctor who claimed health insurer Anthem Blue Cross retaliated against him for being a strong patient advocate, has won a $3.8 million verdict against the insurer....more

4/22/2013 - Blue Cross Insurers Physicians Retaliation Settlement

HMO Hit with $524M Verdict for Giving Hep C in Colonoscopies

A health insurance company rolled the dice with a Las Vegas jury and lost more than half a billion dollars....more

4/17/2013 - Compensatory Damages Health Insurance Hepatitis C HMOs Jury Verdicts Medical Malpractice

Patient Paralyzed by Toxic MRI Dye Awarded $5 Million

A patient who was given a shot of a contrast dye that left him unable to move won a $5 million verdict against GE Healthcare, the maker of the dye....more

4/12/2013 - FDA General Electric MRI

Cops Must Pay $7M to Man Freed by DNA Evidence After 26 Years

Two retired cops must pay $7 million to a man they framed who served 26 years in prison for rape and murder until he was exonerated based on DNA evidence....more

4/8/2013 - DNA Murder Police Misconduct Rape

Drywaller Awarded $27 Million for Asbestos Exposure

A drywall worker who built houses during the California housing boom in the 1970s, when asbestos was used in virtually every type of building material, has won a $27 million jury award for a cancer caused by the toxic...more

4/1/2013 - Asbestos Asbestos Litigation Damages

Prison Inmate ‘Forgotten’ for 2 Years Wins $15.5M

An inmate in a New Mexico county jail who was put in solitary confinement for nearly two years without being charged has won a $15.5 million settlement. A jury awarded Stephen Slevin $22 million in his suit against...more

3/12/2013 - Inmates Settlement Solitary Confinement

Nursing Home to Pay $28M for Poor Care and False Billing

A jury ordered a nursing home to pay over $28 million for fraudulent billing, providing worthless services and for retaliating against two employees who complained about the shoddy care at the facility. ...more

3/11/2013 - False Billing False Claims Act Nursing Homes Retaliation Whistleblowers

Worker with Panic Attacks Wins $21M Discrimination Verdict

A worker who was fired for her panic attacks won a $21.7 million jury verdict against her employer, including $16.5 million in punitive damages for the employer’s malice....more

3/8/2013 - Disability Discrimination Discrimination Hiring & Firing Mental Illness Panic Attacks Reasonable Accommodation

Jury Awards $3M to Workers Injured in Boiler Explosion

Five workers injured by a factory blast won $3 million against their employer for intentionally sending them into danger. The workers of Tec-Cast, a metal casting plant in New Jersey, were working near a pressurized...more

3/6/2013 - Manufacturers Safety Precautions Workplace Injury

Female Deputy Denied Promotion Over Politics Wins $1M

A female deputy in Illinois who claims she was passed up for promotion because of politics has won a $1 million jury award against the county. Susan J. Lakics, who had worked for the DuPage County sheriff’s office for 16...more

2/25/2013 - Discrimination Gender Discrimination Police Retaliation Sex Discrimination

Jury Awards $63M to Girl Almost Killed by Children’s Motrin

A jury has awarded $63 million to the family of a 7-year-old girl who lost her eyesight and nearly died after taking Children’s Motrin. The popular drug can cause a rare disease known as toxic epidermal necrolysis, or...more

2/18/2013 - Childrens' Motrin Failure To Warn Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis

Jury Awards $10M for Fatality at Unsafe Intersection

The family of a mother killed in a California crash won a $10 million jury award against the state transportation department for not building a left-turn lane at the dangerous intersection. ...more

2/15/2013 - Caltrans Car Accident Dangerous Condition Wrongful Death

Walmart Customer Falls on Gatorade Sign, Wins $1.3M

A Walmart customer who slipped on a fallen Gatorade sign won a $1.3 million verdict for his injuries. Tom Papakalodoukas, a 41-year-old Florida resident, was carrying a water bottle while shopping at a Walmart in Port...more

2/12/2013 - Negligence Slip and Fall Wal-Mart

Jury Awards $1.7M to Victim of Sexual Assault on School Bus

Apparently India isn’t the only place where girls are sexually assaulted on buses. As six suspects in the fatal gang rape of a student on a public bus in Delhi stand trial, on this side of the world, a jury in Florida awarded...more

2/12/2013 - Public School Boards Sexual Abuse Sexual Assault

Teenaged Driver Must Pay $3 Million to Crash Victim

In an unusually large verdict for a car crash, a teenager who hit another car has been ordered by a jury to pay the victim $3 million for head and back injuries. One morning around 7:30 a.m., 17-year-old Victoria Scalzo...more

2/1/2013 - Car Accident Traumatic Brain Injuries

Prisoner Denied Anti-Seizure Meds Wins $12 Million Verdict

A prisoner who called out for his anti-seizure medication for days but was not given them by prison medical providers has won a $12 million jury verdict. Ray Fox was in an Illinois state prison in 2007 when he suffered a...more

1/25/2013 - Medical Malpractice Prison

Veteran Awarded Millions When VA Gives Wrong PTSD Meds

A Marine sergeant who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after some harrowing experiences in Iraq won $3.7 million in his lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for not treating his illness properly and...more

1/24/2013 - Medical Malpractice Military Service Members PTSD Veterans

Chicago Cops Leave Woman in Criminal ‘Lion’s Den,’ Pay $22.5M

In the largest police misconduct case in Chicago history, the city will pay $22.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a woman who was raped and fell from a seventh-story window after officers left her in a high-crime area....more

1/22/2013 - Police Misconduct Rape Settlement

LA School District Pays $23M to Sexually Molested 5th Grader

A boy who was molested as a fifth grader by his teacher won a $23 million verdict against the Los Angeles school district and the teacher. ...more

12/28/2012 - Reporting Requirements Sexual Abuse

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