No recovery ordered in bus crash case

By: Steve Lash
Published: December 11, 2012

Tags: bus crash, car accident, damages, Maryland

A bus driver’s negligence in colliding with an automobile on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway two years ago will not cost a transit authority any money, as a federal court jury concluded that the plaintiff’s alleged injuries were not proximately caused by the morning rush-hour collision.

Nursing home administrator wins FMLA suit

Published: August 21, 2012

Tags: damages, FMLA, lost wages, wrongful termination

A nursing home administrator was awarded $253,340 in lost wages and damages after a U.S. District Court found she was fired in violation of the Family Medical Leave Act.

Man awarded $5 million in wrongful arrest suit

Published: August 20, 2012

Tags: damages, New York, wrongful arrest

A Bellmore, N.Y. resident has been awarded $5 million following a federal jury verdict that ruled his business was damaged from a wrongful Nassau County police arrest in 2007.

Criminal lawyer isn’t liable for nonpecuniary damages

Published: June 6, 2012

Tags: damages, ineffective assistance of counsel, legal malpractice

A plaintiff could not recover nonpecuniary damages when he sued his former criminal defense lawyer for malpractice, New York’s highest court has ruled in reinstating a dismissal.

Attorney could enumerate damages in closing argument

Published: March 7, 2012

Tags: damages, negligence

A personal injury attorney did not invade the province of the jury by enumerating each item of damages during closing argument, the Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment.

Going once, going twice, sold!

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: August 30, 2011

Tags: auctions, damages, juries

Growing up as the son of a cattle trader, some of Rafe Foreman’s fondest childhood memories were of going to cattle auctions with Dad – the welcoming crowds, the excitement of the event and the anticipation of some good Texas barbeque.

Challenge: asking for damages

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: June 30, 2011

Tags: anchoring, damages

When Carl Bettinger stepped up to the jury box in the summer of 2007 to make closing arguments in a nursing home abuse case, he reminded the jury that his client was not just an old and sick woman, as the defense claimed. She had been a child, had played in a sandbox, had been a mother and grandmother, had loved and lived.

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