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Marketing Cigarettes to Teens Lands a Punitive Damages Award of 20 Million Dollars and Fourteen Cents
Marketing cigarettes to teenagers in order to hook them as customers for life is seen by many as a particularly despicable way of doing business. To hammer this point home, the jury in Judith Berger v. Philip Morris USA Inc. awarded the plaintiff not only about $7 million in damages for her smoking-related illness… Read More »
Do You Know What To Do In A Car Accident?
According to estimates by the car insurance industry, the average driver is involved in a car crash several times over a lifetime of driving. Hopefully, these collisions do not cause severe vehicle or property damage or serious injury to any drivers or passengers involved. But what if they do? There are several steps you… Read More »
Over a Dozen Aviation Accidents Riddled California in August
August aviation accidents in California covered the length and breadth of the state, from Winterhaven on the Arizona border about ten minutes from Mexico to Tulelake on the Oregon border, and from Long Beach, Oceanside and other points on the Pacific coast to Tahoma on Lake Tahoe. Of the 13 reported accidents, three involved… Read More »
Defective Medical Device Leads to $73.5 Million Verdict Dallas Jury Sends Huge Signal to Makers of Transvaginal Mesh Products
Boston Scientific, one of several makers of pelvic mesh or sling products currently facing tens of thousands of product liability lawsuits around the country, was hit with a $73.5 million verdict in a Texas courtroom last week, producing the biggest verdict so far in this latest round of pelvic mesh litigation. A mesh or… Read More »
Jury Awards $3.25 Million to Woman in Pelvic Mesh Litigation
Earlier this month, a federal jury in West Virginia awarded $3.25 million in a products liability case to a woman who was injured by a defective medical device – in this case a faulty transvaginal mesh or midurethral sling. This verdict sends a strong message to the thousands of other parties currently in litigation… Read More »
No Criminal Charges for Sheriff’s Deputy in Fatal Los Angeles Bicycle Accident: Wrongful Death Lawsuit Still Proceeds
The Los Angeles County District Attorney announced last week that it would not be pressing charges against an LASD deputy sheriff who struck and killed a bicyclist in Calabasas last December due to distracted driving. Milton Olin, Jr. was riding his bicycle on Mulholland Highway when he was struck and killed by a patrol… Read More »
One Killed and Over a Dozen Injured in Los Angeles County Multi-Vehicle Truck Accident
Shortly before sunrise on August 14th, a tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of milk was traveling westbound on the Pomona Freeway just east of Los Angeles in South El Monte, when the tanker failed to take into account the slowed traffic ahead. The truck jackknifed and came to rest on the center divider… Read More »
Supreme Court Lets Stand Ninth Circuit Decision on Defective Medical Devices
Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in Stengel v. Medtronic, Inc. This means the 2013 decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will stand. That decision allowed product liability claims against a medical device manufacturer on the basis of a “failure to warn” product defect to proceed… Read More »
Southern California Private Plane Crashes Take Several Lives in July
Eleven separate airplane accidents in California have been reported by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for the month of July. Two of those accidents, both occurring in Southern California, involved fatalities. On July 6th, a Piper PA 28R-180, in a flight which originated at French Valley Airport in Murrieta, crashed into mountainous terrain… Read More »
Personal Injury Verdict of $3.1 Million for Woman Injured in Los Angeles Car Crash
A woman who was rear-ended in a traffic accident on a Los Angeles city street was awarded $3.1 million by a jury in Pasadena after several hours of deliberations. The collision caused a neck injury which was traced to a ruptured disc pressing on the spinal cord. After months of physical therapy and other… Read More »
