On Thursday, a DeKalb County jury delivered a post-apportioned award of more than $69.6 million to a young Navy veteran shot multiple times during a robbery and carjacking at a Moreland Avenue Kroger store, leading to multiple surgeries and leaving him paraplegic.
Lead plaintiff’s attorney Peter Law said the evidence was overwhelming that Kroger knew the store was located in an unsafe, high-crime area, yet failed to place any security guards in the parking lot where Laquan Taylor was robbed and shot.
“There was testimony the guy who shot him had been hanging out around there before,” said Law, who tried the case with Law & Moran colleagues E. Michael Moran and Denise Hoying.
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The mother of a man who died while in the custody of Stockton police is calling on law enforcement to prevent similar deaths.
The Stockton City Council recently approved a $6 million settlement with the family of Shayne Sutherland. The family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Stockton Police Department back in October 2021.
Attorneys for the family say Sutherland died back in 2020 while suffering a mental health crisis and being held down by police. In November 2020, the department released bodycam footage of the moments leading up to Sutherland’s death.
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A Santa Fe jury awarded $31 million Thursday to a woman who sued Maria’s New Mexico Kitchen after she slipped and fell in a pothole in the restaurant’s parking lot, according to her attorneys.
Attorney Kate Ferlic said her client, Megan Jade Gonzalez, suffered a spinal cord injury in the 2019 fall at the restaurant, which is located at 555 W. Cordova Road.
“The jury honored Megan and made it clear to Santa Fe property owners that safety matters,” Ferlic and co-counsel Lee Hunt said in a text statement following the verdict.
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A Plymouth couple recently won a $14.4 million jury award in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a cardiology practice.
The plaintiffs, James Griswold and his wife Diana Griswold, sued after James Griswold underwent a cardiac imaging procedure and the imaging table collapsed in 2016.
According to the complaint, James Griswold asked staff at Advanced Cardiovascular Specialists, which has offices in Fairfield and Bridgeport, if the table could support his approximately 340-pound weight. Staff told him that larger people had been on it.
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Three years after a sheriff’s deputy shot an unarmed deaf and autistic man in the living room of his family’s Cudahy home, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay the family a $25-million settlement.
Isaias Cervantes was left permanently paralyzed as a result of the March 2021 shooting, which took place a few feet away from his mother, sister, therapist and twin brother, who has cerebral palsy.
On Tuesday, the family’s attorney, Austin Dove, told The Times that the settlement in the family’s lawsuit against the county could help them all move forward.
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New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their head coverings to be photographed after they were arrested.
The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 by Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz, two Muslim women who said they felt shamed and exposed when they were forced to remove their hijabs after they were arrested.
“When they forced me to take off my hijab, I felt as if I were naked. I’m not sure if words can capture how exposed and violated I felt,” Clark said in a statement. “I’m so proud today to have played a part in getting justice for thousands of New Yorkers.”
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A Missouri judge slashed a $1.56 billion verdict against Bayer to $611 million for three people who claimed its Roundup weed killer caused their cancer, by reducing punitive damages. Bayer said on Friday it is appealing.
The German company’s Monsanto unit had been found liable in November by a Cole County, Missouri, jury to Valorie Gunther of New York, Jimmy Draeger of Missouri and Daniel Anderson of California, who blamed their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on their exposure to Roundup.
Jurors found Monsanto liable for negligence, design defects and failing to warn about Roundup’s risks. They awarded $61.1 million of compensatory damages and $1.5 billion of punitive damages, with the latter divided equally among the plaintiffs.
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Concerns over the allocation of a $5.4 million settlement prompted a federal judge on Tuesday to delay final approval of a class-action settlement against GW until May.
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon pushed back a final decision about a class-action settlement between the University and a group of students and parents who alleged GW violated contracts by failing to refund students who took online classes in spring 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision to delay the final settlement decision came after Benjamin Heidloff and Matthew West, current GW Law students, objected to the settlement’s terms regarding attorney fees and plaintiff rewards during the hearing.
A parent filed the lawsuit against GW in May 2020, alleging that the University breached its contract by not partially refunding students who took online classes after officials made classes virtual in March 2020. After a D.C. District Court judge dismissed the case in March 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit revived the lawsuit in March 2022.
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Walmart shoppers who bought certain weighted groceries or bagged fruit have two months left to claim part of a $45 million settlement resolving allegations the retailer overcharged for the items.
Customers of the retailing giant may be entitled to as much as $500 as part of the class-action settlement over the claims Walmart overcharged for packaged meat, poultry, pork and seafood, as well as bagged citrus.
Consumers eligible to file a claim include anyone who made an in-store purchase of weighted goods or bagged citrus at any of Walmart’s 4,615 U.S. stores between Oct. 19, 2018, and Jan. 19, 2024, according to the settlement administrator. Those who bought an eligible product and have a receipt are entitled to get 2% of the total cost of their purchase, capped at $500, according to the settlement site.
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Autozone must pay out over $1 million to a woman who won a lawsuit after she slipped and fell on transmission fluid at one of the company’s Ocala locations.
A jury of the fifth judicial circuit court of Marion County awarded Kimberly Warner $1,037,956.14 in damages on March 28, according to court records.
The verdict comes over two-and-a-half years after Warner, a resident of Clermont, suffered injuries from a fall at the Autozone located at 11 Cedar Radial Pass in Ocala.
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A former JP Morgan analyst was awarded a $35 million verdict after the glass door of a Manhattan building suddenly shattered on her nearly a decade ago, leaving her with permanent brain damage, The Post has learned.
The ruling in favor of Meghan Brown, 36, followed a three-week trial in which jurors were shown shocking surveillance footage of the moment the 7½-foot-tall lobby door seemingly exploded as she was walking through it while leaving a physical therapy appointment in 2015.
“I do remember seeing glass, like, everywhere, in the lobby, near me,” Brown told jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court.
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K’Jon is a joy. He’s so lovable,” Kim Drake said about her 13-year-old grandson, K’Jon. “He recognizes people’s voices, so we talk together, like, we make noises together.”
K’Jon has severe cerebral palsy. He’s also blind and cannot speak or walk.
And for years, Drake and K’Jon’s mother, who was 19 when she gave birth to him via cesarean section, had so many questions and no answers but suspected something went wrong at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
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