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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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Where are they now? A look back at the top verdicts of 2009 

By: Tony Ogden
Published: January 18, 2011

Tags: Top Ten Verdicts

1. Quirky trial leads to record $370M defamation verdict

Choi v. Marciano

Defamation

July 28, 2009, California

After a bizarre trial, a Los Angeles jury awarded a record defamation verdict of $370 million, including $25 million in punitive damages, to five former employees of Guess Jeans mogul Georges Marciano.

$78.7M Prempro verdict reduced 

By: Nora Tooher
Published: February 8, 2010

Tags: hormone replacement therapy, HRT, Prempro, Top Ten Verdicts, Wyeth

A judge in Philadelphia has reduced the $78.7 million in damages awarded by a jury last fall to an Illinois woman who claimed Pfizer’s hormone therapy replacement drug Prempro caused her breast cancer.

Top Ten Jury Verdicts Countdown #1 

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: January 20, 2010

Tags: defamation, Top Ten Verdicts

After a bizarre trial, a Los Angeles jury awarded a record defamation verdict of $370 million, including $25 million in punitive damages, to five former employees of Guess Jeans mogul Georges Marciano.

Top Ten Jury Verdicts Countdown #6 

By: Justin Rebello
Published: January 16, 2010

Tags: medical malpractice, Top Ten Verdicts

In one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the history of New York’s Westchester County, a jury has awarded $77.4 million to the parents of Diego Baizan.

Are big verdicts dead? 

By: Susan Bocamazo
Published: January 15, 2010

Tags: Top Ten Verdicts

Publisher Susan A. Bocamazo comments on how the size of jury verdicts has generally been declining over the past decade.

Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2009

By: Justin Rebello
Published: January 15, 2010

Tags: breach of fiduciary duty, defamation, DUI, Engle litigation, hormone replacement therapy, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accident, Philip Morris, Prempro, Top Ten Verdicts, workers' compensation

The year’s top verdicts include two drunk driving accidents, one $300 million tobacco verdict, and one verdict in the ongoing Prempro litigation against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. But which verdict was #1? A look back at the top verdicts of the past year.

Top Ten Jury Verdicts Countdown #5 

By: Nora Tooher
Published: January 15, 2010

Tags: hormone replacement therapy, HRT, Prempro, Top Ten Verdicts, Wyeth

In the largest individual hormone replacement therapy verdict so far, a Philadelphia jury awarded $78.75 million in damages to an Illinois woman who claimed the hormone therapy replacement drug Prempro caused her breast cancer.

Top Ten Jury Verdicts Countdown #7 

By: Correy Stephenson
Published: January 15, 2010

Tags: breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, Top Ten Verdicts

Alleging conversion and breach of fiduciary duty, one partner in a three-man water drilling company won $71 million against his partners after they tried to shut him out of the business.

Top Ten Jury Verdicts Countdown #8 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 15, 2010

Tags: insurance, Top Ten Verdicts, workers' compensation

A Texas jury has unanimously handed down a $70 million verdict against an insurance company and its claims adjuster, finding that they recklessly failed to timely pay workers’ compensation benefits to a man who was severely injured in a fall on the job.