The 35-year-old victim alleged that Andre Pompey, who worked in surveillance, secretly recorded her having sex with him, and then posted screenshots of the sex video on Facebook.
Pompey allegedly wanted to humiliate and shame her to get revenge for not wanting to spend time with him. He tagged the sex photos with the victim’s name so that her hundreds of Facebook friends could identify her.
Dr. Arnaldo Trabucco sued Jeffrey A. Cogan, his law firm and the family of the patient who died, Gerald Scharf.
Earlier, Cogan had unsuccessfully sued the doctor for malpractice. In response, the doctor sought damages for harm to his reputation, loss of earnings, emotional distress and defense costs. The board-certified urologist had never committed malpractice over his 28-year career.
A Los Angeles jury has awarded $45 million to a girl who endured sexual abuse at the hands of her mother and four men at a home where she was placed by the county despite evidence she was being molested.
The girl, now 15, said in a lawsuit against Los Angeles County that social workers had reasonable suspicions she was being abused, but they failed to inform authorities.
A lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages has been filed against the owners and operators a duck boat that sank last week on a Missouri lake, killing 17 people.
Police are trying to determine a motive after they said a man fatally shot four family members at two locations, including his father and stepfather inside a Texas nursing home before killing himself there too.
More than 9,100 Taxotere lawsuits are consolidated in the Eastern District of Louisiana. There are also state court proceedings pending in California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Delaware, though most of these have been removed to federal court.
Taxotere lawsuit plaintiffs claim alopecia associated with docetaxel is far more likely to be permanent compared to equally effective alternative medications.
A Chicago jury awarded $11 million to the family of an Indiana ironworker killed at a construction project on Jan. 30, 2015.
Joel Ogiego, 45, of Portage, Indiana, died when he was crushed by equipment hoisted using a tower crane.
The equipment weighed several thousand pounds more than the tower crane’s rated-capacity, so the crane was unable to lift up when Mr. Ogiego was first pinned by the load.
Jurors Wednesday awarded more than $2.66 million to a Georgia woman for the debilitating leg injury she suffered in a fall from a hospital's wheelchair.
Carolyn Byrom claims she broke her leg when she fell while trying to leave a wheelchair at Douglas Hospital in 2013, according to court documents.
Roopal Luhana Jul 17, 2018 In December 2017, a federal appeals court reinstated nearly 700 type 2 diabetes medication lawsuits that had previously been dismissed, allowing the cases to move forward because of new evidence that supported the plaintiffs’ claims. The plaintiffs claim that medications like Byetta, Januvia, and Victoza lead to serious injuries, including pancreatic cancer.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) – Washington’s Supreme Court has decided the Port of Seattle is not liable for three-quarters of a $40 million verdict in favor of a worker seriously injured in a baggage cart wreck.
Brandon Apela Afoa was injured during one of his shifts as a baggage handler at the Seattle Tacoma International airport.
The Chief Medical Officer for the Republic of Ireland has announced the temporary suspension of all transvaginal mesh procedures for the time being, citing “understandable public and patient anxiety” regarding the safety of the controversial implants.
The announcement comes just weeks after the United Kingdom’s National Health Services NHS) announced its own temporary transvaginal mesh ban.
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Several years after a Federal District Court certified a class of 1,400 Virgin America flight attendants who alleged that their employer violated numerous California state labor laws , U.S. District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar has granted them summary judgment. The flight attendants claimed that they were paid based on a “block time” schedule, which would begin when they arrived at the gate, and end when they left the gate.
The former owner of Ride The Ducks, a self-taught entrepreneur who grew the Branson, Mo., business by altering and manufacturing dozens of amphibious vehicles, possessed no engineering background, according to his testimony in a lawsuit.
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A Los Angeles jury returned a $25.3 million verdict on behalf of S.W., a victim of sexual abuse against his former supervisor and coach, Scott Durzo, and the Westerly School in Long Beach, California. Durzo abused Plaintiff for three years prior to becoming an employee of the Westerly School, where Durzo was permitted to bring S.W., a 15-year-old home-study student, onto the Westerly campus for the school day.
A Washington state jury has awarded the family of a Poulsbo man $1.1 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The jury’s verdict found Lone Star Industries, based in Stamford, Connecticut (formerly called Pioneer Sand and Gravel), culpable in the death of Andrew Miller, who died from mesothelioma in November 2016.
Jurors found SSM negligent in discharging a pregnant woman suffering from kidney stones and a urinary tract infection that ultimately led to the death of her unborn baby.
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