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Important New Personal Injury Jury Awards and Settlements

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Larry Bodine
Latest Takeda Actos Bladder Cancer $2.3M Verdict
02/13/2015
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. was ordered to pay more than $2.3 million in damages to a Pennsylvanian man who blamed the company’s Actos diabetes drug for causing his bladder cancer. The jury panel awarded John Kristufek more than $300,000 for his medical expenses and $2 million for pain and suffering Read More

Victim’s family award $3M judgement in fatal wreck
A Georgia jury has awarded three million dollars the mother of a former Albany State University student killed in a traffic accident in the Florida… Read More
Steelworker settles harassment suit for $3.9 million
Elijah Turley, a Lackawanna steelworker who endured years of racial harassment, has settled a lawsuit against his former employer for an estimated $3… Read More
NY Jury Returns $1.4M Verdict for Child’s Foot Surgery Gone Bad
02/13/2015
Rockland County, NY — January 29, 2015 –A Rockland County jury returned a verdict of almost $1.4 million against a local podiatrist, Ira Bernstein, DPM, for injuries he caused when he fused the growth plates of a 12-year-old girl during bunion surgery in June of 2010 at Nyack Hospital. The girl’s Read More
FL Court Upholds $4.5 Million award to Family of Double Murder Victims
02/13/2015
The Florida Supreme Court agreed the landlord of a Broward County apartment complex where two people were murdered should pay the victims’ family $4.5 million because it failed to fix a security gate. The Supreme Court issued its ruling Thursday, reversing an appeals court decision and upholding Read More
Judge: CSX Can’t Shift $16M Settlement to General Mills
02/12/2015
A federal judge in Atlanta has thrown out an effort by CSX Transportation Inc. to force General Mills Inc. to reimburse the railroad $16 million it paid to a General Mills employee who suffered a catastrophic injury in a 2005 rail accident. A federal jury in 2012 awarded employee Doug Burchfield $ Read More
Denver jury awards nearly $15 million in racial discrimination case
02/12/2015
A federal jury Wednesday awarded nearly $15 million to seven Commerce City warehouse workers who accused a trucking company of segregating workers by race, calling blacks ‘lazy, stupid Africans’ and punishing those who complained. Six of the plaintiffs are black, many from Mali. One plaintiff is a Read More
Jury Awards $10.55 Million Asbestos Verdict
02/12/2015
A New York jury on Tuesday awarded $10.55 million to the family of an Indiana man who died of mesothelioma from being exposed asbestos from talc mined and sold by R.T. Vanderbilt Inc, according to the family’s lawyers. The jury found on that Richard Chisholm, who died at the age of 52, was exposed Read More
$8.5 million verdict exposes fraud in medical concierge services
02/11/2015
Boca Raton, FL – David Berber was awarded $8.5 million by a jury because MDVIP, a company providing expensive “medical concierge services,” was fraudulent and negligent in the care of Berber’s wife. ‘The people that sign up got to be careful because what this particular concierge service did, MDVIP Read More
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