Denny’s to pay $1.3 million to former employees

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: June 30, 2011

Tags: ADA, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, Denny’s, disability discrimination, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Denny’s has agreed to pay $1.3 million to dozens of former employees as part of a consent decree that requires the restaurant chain to overhaul its corporate policies regarding people with disabilities.

Jury awards $11.8 million in drunk driving accident

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: June 22, 2011

Tags: drunk driving

A Maryland jury has awarded more than $11.8 million to a man whose car was rear-ended by a repeat drunk driver in August 2007 and who developed a painful and debilitating nerve condition that has largely confined him to a wheelchair.

Cardiac patient’s family wins $1.5 million verdict

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: April 4, 2011

Tags: heart surgery, Maryland, medical malpractice

A Baltimore, Md. jury has awarded almost $1.5 million to the family of a 67-year-old Rosedale woman who died a few months after undergoing what was supposed to be low-risk heart surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Jury awards fired Merck employee $555,000

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: January 20, 2011

Tags: Merck, retaliation

A Baltimore jury has awarded $555,000 to a former Merck & Co. saleswoman who claimed she was fired two years ago in retaliation for reporting her supervisor’s violations of corporate policies.

Maryland county to pay $3.25 million in RLUIPA settlement

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: December 2, 2010

Tags: land use, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act

After fighting the construction of a Christian school for years and through most of a federal court jury trial, Anne Arundel County in Maryland has agreed to allow Riverdale Baptist Church to build and will pay the church $3.25 million for violating its constitutional rights.

Judge reverses jail order in e-discovery spoliation case

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: November 10, 2010

Tags: e-discovery, electronic discovery, Sanctions, spoliation

The defendant in a recent e-discovery spoliation case will not go to jail after all for deleting e-mails and other electronically-stored information at the heart of a federal lawsuit over copyright and patent infringement. But the price of his freedom is high.

Workers get $34M for carbon monoxide poisoning

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: July 29, 2010

Tags: carbon monoxide poisoning

A Baltimore jury has awarded nearly $34 million to 20 restaurant workers who suffered carbon-monoxide poisoning in early 2008.

Jurors gave another half-million dollars to three of the workers’ spouses.

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