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High school fight leads to $5 million verdict 

By Sylvia Hsieh - Published: September 2, 2010
Tags: negligence, school bullying

A cafeteria brawl that erupted over insults traded on MySpace and left a high school student seriously injured has resulted in a $5 million verdict against an assistant principal and two other students.

Avery T. Waterman, the winning lawyer, successfully argued that the assistant principal was negligent in not responding to a plea for help by [...]

Woman paralyzed in park accident receives $8 million 

Published: September 2, 2010
Tags: Connecticut, paralysis

A young woman who was paralyzed in a sledding accident at Fulton Park has received $8 million in a settlement with the city.

Six men settle cases with Boy Scouts for childhood abuse by leader 

Published: September 2, 2010
Tags: Boy Scouts, Oregon, sexual abuse

Six men who were molested by a former Portland, Ore. Scout leader as children have settled their cases with the Boy Scouts of America, their attorneys announced.

Family of man who died during CT scan wins $6.2M 

By Tony Ogden - Published: September 1, 2010
Tags: gastric bypass

The family of a Florida man who died while receiving a CT scan has won a $6.2 million verdict against the hospital where the scan was performed.

Family wins $7 million lawsuit against Ford Motors 

Published: September 1, 2010
Tags: Arkansas, defective design, Ford

A jury in Arkansas has awarded a family over $7 million in a lawsuit against Ford Motor Company. The judgment includes $2.5 million in punitive damages.

HRT litigation rolls on 

By Nora Lockwood Tooher - Published: August 31, 2010
Tags: hormone replacement therapy litigation, Pfizer, Premarin, Prempro, Provera, Upjohn, Wyeth

With Pfizer and plaintiffs’ lawyers squabbling over who has won the most hormone replacement therapy trials, only one thing about the litigation is clear: it’s turning into one of the longest-running mass torts in U.S. history.

Jury awards former student $5 million 

Published: August 31, 2010
Tags: brain injury, fight, high school, Massachusetts

A former Gloucester High School student permanently injured in a 2006 lunchtime fight has been awarded $5 million by a jury.

Second bellwether hernia patch trial goes to plaintiff 

Published: August 30, 2010
Tags: Kugel mesh hernia patch, multi-district litigation

A federal jury in Rhode Island has awarded $1.5 million to a North Carolina man and his wife in the second bellwether trial in the Kugel mesh hernia patch litigation.

Pfizer settles Prempro case before damages retrial 

Published: August 30, 2010
Tags: Arkansas, breast cancer, Pfizer, Prempro

Pfizer Inc. has agreed to settle an Arkansas woman’s claims that the company’s Prempro menopause drug caused her breast cancer before the drugmaker endured another trial over punitive damages in the case, according to a court filing.

$5.3 million settlement in woman’s death 

Published: August 30, 2010
Tags: hospital, Illinois, medical malpractice, stroke, wrongful death

The family of a woman who died after being admitted to Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill. with strokelike symptoms has agreed to a record $5.3 million medical malpractice settlement.