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11 Notable Personal Injury Jury Awards and Settlements

1. ury Finds FedEx Liable for $165.5 Million in Fatal Truck Crash
  A jury has awarded $165.5 million to the family of a woman who was killed by a FedEx truck after the driver allegedly fell asleep behind the wheel.... Read More

1. Takeda Pharmaceutical Ordered to Pay $1.3 Million in Actos Lawsuit
  A jury in Philadelphia ordered Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. to pay $1.3 million in punitive damages on February 13, and found that Takeda acted with... Read More

1. Jury Awards Attorney and Wife $16.5M for Crash With Logging Truck
  A jury in Sandersville, GA, returned a $16.5 million verdict March 4 against the owner of a logging truck that pulled out onto a rural highway, blocking the path of a pickup driven by a lawyer who was severely injured in the Read More

1. Calilfornia woman wins $5.7 million in Pelvic Mesh lawsuit
  A jury returned a $5.7 million verdict Thursday in favor of a 50-year-old Tehachapi, CA, woman who had sued Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over a medical device that has generated a slew of similar lawsuits nationwide. Johnson & Johnson and wholly owned subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. said Read More

1. NJ town reaches $2.1 million settlement in teen's drowning
  RIDGEWOOD, New Jersey — A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the village by the family of a 13-year-old boy who drowned in Graydon Pool in 2008 has been settled. Ridgewood’s manager, Roberta Sonenfeld, said the $2.1 million settlement was reached Wednesday. Soo Hyeon Park, his sister and parents Read More

1. School employee awarded $6.5 million in sexual assault case
  Former Fontana school police Officer John Garcia is accused in lawsuits of sexually assaulting female coworkers. SAN BERNARDINO, CA -- A jury has awarded a former Fontana Unified School District police dispatcher nearly $1.5 million after the woman sued the district and one of its former police Read More

1. DePuy Pays $2.5M for Defective Metal Hip Implant
  An Oklahoma plaintiff was awarded $2.5 million in a metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuit after the jury found the DePuy ASR metal hip implant product to be defective and unreasonably dangerous. Andrea S. had filed the metal hip implant lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson alleging she suffered Read More

1. Man awarded $2.5M in damages after Risperdal gave him 46DD breasts
  AN ALABAMA man who grew enormous breasts after taking an antipsychotic drug as a boy was awarded $2.5 million in damages in a Philadelphia court yesterday against the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that makes the pill. A Common Pleas jury concluded that Austin Pledger, now 20, 'was not adequately Read More

1. Rehab Center Liable for $10.25 M in Eating Disorder Death
  An Orange County Superior Court jury recently awarded more than $10.25 million to the parents of a young man who died while in the care of a Newport Beach drug and alcohol detox center, plaintiff attorneys announced. Ted and Kim Jacques alleged in a wrongful death lawsuit that First House LLC was Read More

1. Jury awards $20M to family of PA man killed in bulldozer accident
  A Jefferson County jury awarded almost $20 million in restitution to the family of a 25-year-old contractor who died in 2007 while operating a bulldozer at the Motiva refinery in Port Arthur. Emery Bowie stood up on the bulldozer manufactured by Caterpillar tracks when the tractor unexpectedly Read More

Court orders $18.5M for NYC man wrongfully convicted of rapeA federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a Brooklyn, NY, man who served 22 years in prison for a rape he didn’t commit, should recover $18 million because of the city’s mismanagement of evidence in his case, reversing a lower court’s ruling. Alan Newton, who has been out of prison since 2006, Read More

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