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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
