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Benchmarks: Mo. court reinstates $28M punitive award for fatal plane crash (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: May 20, 2013

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The third time apparently is a charm. After an award of $28 million in punitive damages in a product liability case over a fatal plane crash twice failed to pass judicial scrutiny, a Missouri appellate court sitting en banc decided that the jury had it right in the first place.

N.Y. attorney wrests $130M verdict from jaws of defeat (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: May 14, 2013

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New York defense attorneys were having a good laugh back in 2009. The snickering was over the story of a well-known medical malpractice lawyer who lost his case after turning down an $8 million settlement offer.

But no one’s laughing now.

Calif. judge tosses $6.5M verdict in first Actos trial (access required)

Published: May 14, 2013

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A California judge has thrown out a $6.5 million product liability verdict against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, deciding that a key expert witness should not have been allowed to testify that the diabetes drug Actos was the cause of a man’s bladder cancer.

J&J chalks up win in second DePuy ASR hip trial (access required)

Published: May 1, 2013

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A Chicago jury has decided that Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics unit is not liable for the failure of a metal-on-metal hip implant that failed three years after an Illinois woman’s hip-replacement surgery.

Benchmarks: Cooper Tire must pay $33M in fatal van rollover (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: April 29, 2013

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An Iowa court last week upheld a $32.8 million verdict in favor of plaintiffs who alleged that tread separation in a Cooper Tire product was the cause of a 2007 van rollover that killed one person and injured five.

First gadolinium injury trial yields $5M verdict (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: April 23, 2013

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A federal jury in Ohio has awarded $5 million in the first case to go to trial in the multidistrict litigation involving patients who claim injury from the body scan contrast agent gadolinium.

Jury: School board owes $90M for teen’s death (access required)

By: Beth Moszkowicz
Published: April 22, 2013

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A Prince George’s County, Md.,  jury has awarded more than $90 million to a family whose 13-year-old daughter was struck and killed four years ago while crossing the street as she was trying to reach a school-bus stop.

The parents of Ashley Davis, who was a freshman at Crossland High
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Jury hits HMO with $524M verdict for keeping negligent doctor in its network (access required)

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: April 15, 2013

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A week after ordering two subsidiaries of one of the largest HMOs in the country to pay  $24 million to two patients who contracted hepatitis C from a Las Vegas colonoscopy center, the jury added half a billion dollars in punitive damages to its award.

Pfizer must pay $142M over Neurontin marketing (access required)

Published: April 8, 2013

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Drug maker Pfizer violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by engaging in a fraudulent marketing scheme promoting the epilepsy drug Neurontin for “off-label” uses, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming judgment.

$41.5M awarded to prep student stricken by encephalitis (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: April 8, 2013

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A prestigious Connecticut boarding school is on the hook for nearly $42 million for failing to ensure that a student was protected from insect-borne viral encephalitis during a 2007 trip to China.

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