Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Published: January 17, 2012
The overall size of the Top Ten Jury Verdicts increased substantially in 2011.
The average increased by $27 million, rising from nearly $157 million to just under $184 million. By contrast, the average for 2010 increased by around $12 million over 2009.
Doctor wins $482 million patent infringement verdict 
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: Johnson & Johnson, patent, patent infringement, stent, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Plaintiff's attorney Paul Taskier
A Texas jury awarded $482 million to a radiologist on his claim that a medical stent manufacturer willfully infringed his patent.
Jury awards $322 million to worker in asbestos case
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: asbestos, asbestos litigation, asbestosis, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
As a teenager growing up in Mississippi who barely learned to read or write, Thomas Brown Jr. went to work on oil drilling rigs as a “roughneck” – doing all the hard manual labor to support the drilling team, including pouring 50-pound bags of additives into mud used in the drilling process.
Thirty years later, he learned those bags contained asbestos.
Lawyer who invested in friend’s company wins $116 million verdict over failure to disclose fraud
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: fraud, investment fraud, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Plaintiff D. Bobbit Noel Jr.
A Houston attorney who invested roughly $28,000 in his billionaire friend’s oil and gas company and cashed out for over $6 million won a $116 million verdict against his friend and the company for their failure to disclose that the investment was worth far more.
‘Ground breaking’ Botox case results in $212M jury verdict
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: Allergan, Botox, botulism, brain damage, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Unlike the Hollywood starlets trying to reverse gravity or other middle-aged mortals seeking to smooth out facial wrinkles, Douglas Ray Jr. went for Botox injections for reasons other than vanity.
Second hepatitis outbreak trial results in $182.M verdict
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: Baxter Healthcare, colonoscopy, Hepatitis C, McKesson Corp., propofol, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Plaintiff's attorney Robert Eglet, during closing arguments
Hundreds of miles and worlds away from the Los Angeles trial against Michael Jackson’s doctor for administering a fatal dose of propofol to the King of Pop, a jury in Las Vegas was listening to a very different case over the same drug in October.
In the end, the jury awarded $182.6 million to three plaintiffs who contracted hepatitis C from tainted vials of the anesthesia during colonoscopy procedures.
Jury returns $144 million verdict for girl injured at birth
By:
Carol Lundberg
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: birth injury, cerebral palsy, medical malpractice, medical negligence, Michigan, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Plaintiff's attorney Geoffrey Fieger
According to plaintiff’s attorney Geoffrey N. Fieger, Dr. Andrew Jay Halperin should have known that Kimberly VanSlembrouck’s baby was going to be too big to risk a vaginal birth, and he should have called for a Caesarean section.
In October of last year, a Michigan jury agreed and awarded $144 million to Fieger’s client, who sustained serious injury during her birth.
Jury awards $104 million to couple for hepatitis infection
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: Baxter Healthcare, colonoscopy, Hepatitis C, McKesson Corp., propofol, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011
Plaintiff Michael Washington and his wife, Josephine, speaking with a reporter
In the third trial over a rash of hepatitis C infections caused by contaminated vials of the anesthetic propofol at Las Vegas colonoscopy and endoscopy clinics in October, a jury ordered the drug makers to pay $104 million to 71-year-old Michael Washington and his wife Josephine.
$91.5 million verdict awarded for nursing home death
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: dehydration, nursing home, nursing home litigation, Top Ten Jury Verdicts, Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011, wrongful death
A West Virginia jury awarded the son of a woman who died of severe dehydration after a brief stay in a nursing home $91.5 million, including an $80 million punitive damages award.
“It was like a house of horrors,” plaintiffs’ attorney Michael J. Fuller said of the facility where 87-year-old Dorothy Douglas was admitted in 2009, only to die a few weeks later.
Where are they now?
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2010, Top Ten Verdicts
1. Small firm wins $505.1 million verdict Chanin v. Teva Pharmaceuticals Product liability April 5, 2010, Nevada Arguing that oversized vials of a drug were “weapons of mass infection” that led to an outbreak of Hepatitis C at outpatient surgical centers, Las Vegas plaintiffs’ attorney Robert Eglet convinced a
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