In a surprise move, the $5.1 million judgment that blamed Adam Shacknai, CEO of Arizona-based Medicis Pharmaceutical, for the death of Rebecca Zahau in a Coronado mansion eight years ago has been dismissed after the family of the deceased woman reached a settlement with Shacknai's insurance company.
A man who was attacked by a group of people -- including two off-duty Los Angeles firefighters -- and choked to unconsciousness on Halloween night 2015 in Chatsworth reached a $7.4 million settlement of his lawsuit against the assailants, his attorney said Wednesday.
Victims and families of the Sutherland Springs church shooting can move forward with a lawsuit against a sporting goods store who sold Sutherland Springs shooter his gun and ammunition. Judge Karen Pozza denied Academy Sports + Outdoors’ request to throw out the lawsuit.
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The Arthur D. Shores - Robert S. Vance American Inn of Court is hosting a special presentation entitled Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard: A Panel Discussion. The presentation will be held February 12th at the Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Birmingham (250 18th St. South).
The nation's most trafficked intersection runs along I-20 from Birmingham to Atlanta, making human trafficking an issue that affects every community in the metro area and throughout the state. Carla Ward, Assistant U.S. Attorney, will moderate a panel of professionals who are dedicated and active in the efforts to halt human trafficking: Carolyn Potter, Executive Director of The Well House, Sgt. Trent Kempster, Tuscaloosa Police Department, Doug Gilmer, Special Agent in Charge with Department of Homeland Security, and Jordan Giddens, Finance Director and Member Resource Liaison of the AL House Democratic Caucus.
The presentation has been approved for one hour of CLE credit. CLE materials will be sent to registrants ahead of the meeting. The meeting will start with a cash bar cocktail hour at 5:00 pm and the meeting will begin promptly at 5:30 pm. The cost to attend is $25 per person to cover the cost of dinner. Seating is limited so RSVP you and your guests early.
Meeting Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:00 PM Where: Hilton Garden Inn, 250 18th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35233 Cost: $25 per person RSVP Deadline: Friday, February 8, 2019 12:00 PM (or when limited seating is full)
Non-Members: RSVP by emailing Ben Cohn at . To complete your registration you will need to mail your $25 check ahead of the meeting, made payable to Birmingham Inn of Court, to P.O. Box 59591, Birmingham, Alabama 35259.
A federal jury in Indiana last week awarded $3 million in damages to a plaintiff in a bellwether case against Cook Medical over allegedly defective designs in the company’s Celect inferior vena cava filters.
The plaintiff, Tonya Brand, sued Cook in 2014 alleging that the Celect IVC filter implanted prior to a spinal procedure fragmented and sent broken pieces into her thigh and near her spine.
Sunoco Pipeline LP has agreed to pay more than $5.4 million to settle three lawsuits pertaining to crude oil spills in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma that allege violations of the Clean Water Act as well as state environmental laws.
Sunoco and Mid-Valley Pipeline Company violated state and federal environmental laws relating to the 2013, 2014 and 2015 oil spills caused by pipeline corrosion. The spills resulted in more than 5,000 barrels flowing into creeks and rivers in the affected states, the DOJ said.
Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest maker of health-care products, has agreed to settle the bulk of consumers’ lawsuits alleging it sold defective artificial hips and misled patients about their dangers, according to a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
An attorney for the parents of a Georgia high school student who claim their daughter’s privacy rights were violated when school administrators seized and searched her cellphone asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to revoke their immunity.
A case on appeal Friday in the 11th Circuit is either the latest chapter in a saga of brazen health care fraud by Hospital Corporation of America or the work of an overzealous whistleblower looking to capitalize on the company’s past misdeeds.
A federal judge on Friday rejected Facebook’s argument that it cannot be sued for letting third parties, such as Cambridge Analytica, access users’ private data because no “real world” harm has resulted from the conduct.
“The injury is the disclosure of private information,” U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria declared during a marathon four-and-a-half-hour motion-to-dismiss hearing Friday.
The parents of a Penn State student who died after a night of hazing at a boozy fraternity pledge event are suing 28 members of the shuttered organization as well as the security firm hired to curb underage drinking at school social functions.
A jury has awarded millions of dollars to a sexual assault survivor who was abused by a man who worked at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis.
Plaintiff and survivor Laura Stearns doesn’t believe she’ll see any of that as McLean, who represented himself, has fled the country. Stearns says she was only 15 years old when McLean sexually assaulted her while she was a student at the CTC.
A Georgia woman reached a $1 million settlement with one of the doctors who was responsible for the loss of her leg, soon after jurors found the physician partially liable on a $4.7 million award, and days after a verdict was directed in favor of the second doctor she claims is at fault.
The Los Angeles County jury deliberated for most of a day in a trial that began on January 15 before finding Tri-Modal Distribution Services Inc. responsible for the 2013 death of Jose Garcia. The award of $11,050,000 to Karen Garcia far exceeds Tri-Modal’s highest settlement offer of $700,000, according to her attorney Steve Vartazarian of The Vartazarian Law Firm.
A Lancaster woman was awarded $41 million, including $25 million in punitive damages, by a Philadelphia jury for injuries she suffered from a vaginal mesh device designed and marketed by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, her attorney announced Thursday.
The verdict was the sixth multi-million dollar award in a vaginal mesh product trial in Philadelphia.
Suzanne Emmett, 57, was implanted in May 2007 with a mesh product made by Ethicon Inc. to relieve organ prolapse and urinary incontinence.
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