Former principal wins, then loses, $155.7 million verdict 
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: November 30, 2012
Tags: conspiracy, defamation, Florida, intentional infliction of emotional distress, school, sex harassment, tortious interference, wrongful termination
The former principal of a successful charter school has won a disputed $155.7 million verdict against the city manager for destroying her reputation.
Jury awards inmate injured in prison $1.2 million
Published: September 14, 2012
Tags: Florida, inmate, negligence, prison, violence
A man serving a 17-year sentence for a 1997 aggravated assault was awarded $1.2 million by a Palm Beach County, Fla. jury this week to compensate him for losing the sight in one eye when another inmate at South Bay Correctional Facility threw boiling water in his face.
Elevator fall nets woman $13 million jury award
Published: September 10, 2012
Tags: elevator, fall, Florida
A woman who was left bruised, depressed and with psychological and physical injuries as the result of a bumpy elevator ride has won $13 million in a jury verdict.
Hospital loses suit over missing body parts
Published: September 5, 2012
Tags: autopsy, cause of death, Florida, hospital
A jury has returned a verdict of slightly more than $2 million in a lawsuit filed six years ago by a woman who said Winter Haven Hospital disposed of her mother’s organs after an autopsy, preventing her from getting a second opinion on the cause of her mother’s death.
Schools and ex-teacher settle for $75,000
Published: August 29, 2012
Tags: Florida, schools, sexual harassment, teacher
Lee County, Fla. schools have paid out $75,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former teacher at East Lee County High School.
Mortgage lender settles discrimination lawsuit
Published: August 29, 2012
Tags: civil rights, Florida, housing discrimination, mortgage lending, New Jersey, New York
A Wall Street home mortgage lender catering to the New York, New Jersey and Florida markets has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a housing discrimination lawsuit.
Jury awards train accident victim’s parents $2.7 million
Published: July 26, 2012
Tags: CSX, Florida, train crash, wrongful death
A Clay County, Fla. jury has awarded the parents of Wesley Whiddon Jr. a $2.7 million verdict in their wrongful death lawsuit against CSX Transportation.
Convicted murderer hit with $54 million wrongful death verdict
Published: July 17, 2012
Tags: Florida, murder, wrongful death
Former Jabil Circuit executive Patrick A. Evans already has been convicted of murdering his wife and her friend, but his legal woes are not over.
A jury has decided Evans should pay $54 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of Jerry B. Taylor, whom Evans shot and killed in December 2008.
Woman’s family gets $1 million settlement in shooting
Published: July 10, 2012
Tags: Florida, security, shooting, wrongful death
The family of a woman killed in a drug-related shooting will receive $1 million from the property owner for a wrongful death claim.
Tobacco companies hit with $75 million verdict
By:
Ruth Sheehan
Published: June 13, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, Engle litigation, Florida, pain and suffering, tobacco, wrongful death
Johnnie Calloway hadn’t started high school when he and his brother snuck their first cigarettes. At age 59, the cement worker died of heart disease and bladder cancer, still smoking two packs a day.
On May 31, his widow and daughter were awarded $75 million by a Broward County, Fla. jury in the latest of the Engle cases to go to trial.
