For selling alcohol to minors, a $716 million judgment 
Published: May 16, 2012
Tags: alcohol, drunk driving, Florida, minor
It was the drunk driving accident that killed a Riverview, Fal. man more than four years ago, when a 17-year-old lost control of his Camaro and slammed into a car driven by Sammy Garcia.
The convenience store that provided him with the alcohol has just been ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
Former college president to receive $540,000 settlement over dismissal
Published: April 25, 2012
Tags: college, Florida, wrongful termination
Kenneth Walker will receive a $540,000 settlement from Edison State College, ending a contentious and potentially embarrassing legal battle over the longtime president’s dismissal.
Settlement reached in woman’s drug sting death
Published: March 30, 2012
Tags: Florida, murder, police, sting
The city of Tallahassee, Fla. has agreed to settle with the parents of a woman who was murdered during a drug sting as a trial was about to begin in their lawsuit against the city. The settlement is for $2.6 million.
Class-action debt-relief settlement approved against law firm
Published: March 15, 2012
Tags: excessive fees, Florida, law firm, mislead
A federal judge has approved a controversial settlement in a class-action lawsuit against a law firm accused of misleading and charging excessive fees to clients around the nation seeking debt relief.
Man with arthritis to receive $7 million for car crash injuries
Published: March 13, 2012
Tags: arthritis, car crash, Florida
A 59-year-old Boca Raton man who suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis has won a little over $7 million in damages for injuries he suffered in a traffic crash, according to his attorney
Smoker’s widow wins $25 million in punitives against Lorillard
Published: March 7, 2012
Tags: cigarettes, Florida, Lorillard, Lorillard Inc., punitive damages, tobacco, wrongful death
Lorillard Inc., the maker of Newport cigarettes, was ordered to pay a Florida widow $25 million in punitive damages by a Miami jury, the week after she was awarded $16 million in compensatory damages.
Jury awards $3.3 million to man wrongfully detained in bank scare
Published: February 16, 2012
Tags: alarm, bank, Bank of America, Florida, negligence, wrongfully detained
A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a Florida man mistakenly reported to be a robber $3.3 million in damages after ruling that the bank was negligent in triggering the silent alarm, then failing to cancel it when employees realized he was not a robber.
Jury reaches $900 million verdict in undefended nursing home suit
Published: February 9, 2012
Tags: elder abuse, exploitation of the elderly, Florida, medical neglect, nursing home
A Gainesville, Fla. jury has handed down a $900 million verdict, including $700 million in punitive damages, against a family of Delaware corporations that owned or operated hundreds of nursing homes nationwide.
Jury awards $100 million against priest over sex abuse
Published: November 14, 2011
Tags: child sex abuse, clergy sex abuse, Florida
A Miami jury has returned a $100 million verdict against a retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of boys over many years — an amount unlikely to ever be collected, but one a victim’s attorney said sends a strong message to child predators.
Tobacco defendants win two straight Engle verdicts
Published: November 3, 2011
Tags: Engle, Engle litigation, Florida, smoking, tobacco
The tobacco industry defendants have won two more defense verdicts in the individual trials in Florida known as the Engle litigation.
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