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Drywaller Awarded $27 Million for Asbestos Exposure
iStockphoto/Thinkstock A drywall worker who built houses during the California housing boom in the 1970s, when asbestos was used in virtually every type of building material, has won a $27 million jury...
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Dangers of Botulism with Botox [Video]
Dangers of Botulism with Botox [Video] Drug manufacturer Allergan recently settled a case for an undisclosed amount, which claimed Botox caused botulism in a 5-year-old child in Oklahoma County. The...
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Hernia Patients in Pain as Skin Procedure Fails [Video]
Hernia Patients in Pain as Skin Procedure Fails [Video] Hernia patients have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of AlloDerm, a product made from the skin tissue of cadavers. They claim once...
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DePuy Owes $8.3M After First Hip Replacement Trial
Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock A jury in California on Mar. 8 ordered DePuy Orthopaedics to pay over $8.3 million to a man who says the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary knowingly made and marketed a...
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Hernia Patients in Pain as Skin Procedure Fails [Video]
Hernia Patients in Pain as Skin Procedure Fails [Video] Hernia patients have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of AlloDerm, a product made from the skin tissue of cadavers. They claim once...
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Patient Paralyzed by Toxic MRI Dye Awarded $5 Million
iStockphoto/Thinkstock A patient who was given a shot of a contrast dye that left him unable to move won a $5 million verdict against GE Healthcare, the maker of the dye. Paul Decker, a retired Ohio...
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Insurance Dispute Freezes Avandia Victims’ Fund [Video]
Insurance Dispute Freezes Avandia Victims’ Fund [Video] Lawyers.com videojournalist Matt H. Mayes from Los Angeles reports that a big pharma and insurance legal dispute was allowed to deprive...
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Girl Wins $7.2 Million for Waterlogged ‘Bionic Ear’
Cochlear implant A girl whose cochlear hearing device implant became waterlogged, causing her to receive severe electric shocks leading to convulsions, won a $7.2 million jury award. Breanna Sadler, of...
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High School Football Player Wins $11.5M for Concussion
Hemera/Thinkstock A jury awarded $11.5 million to a former high school football player accusing helmet maker Riddell Sports, Inc. of causing brain injuries he suffered as a teenager. In 2008, during...
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Another Hip Replacement Suit Added Against Dupuy
iStockphoto/Thinkstock DePuy Orthopaedics continues to be sued for its hip replacement devices. One type – the Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) – has already attracted lawsuits across the country...
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$32.8M Award Upheld for Bad Tire That Caused Fatal Rollover
#1online/Thinkstock A $32.8 million verdict has been upheld against Cooper Tire for making and selling a defective tire that caused the driver of a van full of refugees to lose control near Bondurant,...
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Yamaha Must Pay $3.3M for Selling Dangerous Rhino
iStockphoto/Thinkstock Rhino-maker Yamaha Motor Corporation must pay $3.3 million for an unsafe 660 UTV vehicle that overturned and crushed its driver. Jackie McMahon, of Pensacola, Fla., was driving...
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Court Overturns $6.5M Verdict In First Actos Trial
TongRo Images/Thinkstock Soon after a jury awarded $6.5 million to a California man who claimed the diabetes drug Actos caused him to develop bladder cancer, a court erased the verdict. Jack Cooper ,...
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Abbott Labs Ordered to Pay $2.2M for Risky Arthritis Drug
iStockphoto/Thinkstock A jury has ordered the maker of the popular arthritis drug Humira to pay $2.24 million for not warning doctors about a life-threatening side effect. Delores Tietz, of Manda,...
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Wife Exposed to Asbestos Washing Clothes Wins $27 Million
iStockphoto/ Thinkstock A worker’s wife who developed mesothelioma from second-hand asbestos exposure won a $27 million jury award. For several years in the 1950s, Martin Gregg worked as an insulation...
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Patient Wins $1 Million for Grisly Bedsores from Faulty Bed
iStockphoto/ Thinkstock A patient who fell through a kinetic therapy bed and as a result suffered gruesome bedsores and loss of his tailbone won a $1 million jury award against the bed’s manufacturer....
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No Lawsuits For Defective Generic Drugs, Supreme Court Rules
Jupiterimages/ Thinkstock Generic drug makers cannot be sued when their products injure or kill consumers, the Supreme Court ruled today, even if the drugs are defective. In Bartlett v. Mutual...
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Surviving Spouses of Smokers Win Millions Against Big Tobacco
iStockphoto/Thinkstock The widow of a lifelong smoker who died of lung cancer won a $2.5 million award against Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Beatrice Skolnick’s husband, Leo, began...
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Woman Paralyzed by Collapsed Car Seat Awarded $43M
iStockphoto/Thinkstock In the largest verdict in state history, a jury in Vermont awarded $43 million to a woman whose seat back collapsed when her car was rear-ended, leaving her paralyzed. Dzemila...
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ALEC Helps Big Business Invade Local Lawmaking State By State
Click here to read more Lawyers.com coverage of ALEC and the organization’s anti-consumer agenda. iStockphoto/Thinkstock The American Legislative Exchange Council kicks off its annual meeting today in...
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