Baltimore’s spending panel is scheduled to approve Wednesday a $2 million settlement with a city man mistaken for the “Charles Village Rapist” and held in solitary confinement for more than a year beginning in 2008.
The settlement with Marlow Humbert comes after the Supreme Court declined this month to hear the Baltimore Police Department’s appeal in the case.
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A motorcyclist who was seriously injured in 2017 when an Oakland police car crashed into him will receive $12 million from the city as compensation for the accident. The police car allegedly ran a red light, which resulted in the collision.
On March 25, 2017, Elliot Van Fleet, 35, was driving through an intersection on a green light when an Oakland police officer in an SUV struck him, knocking him off his bike.
A New York jury has awarded $45 million to a Manhattan philanthropist who was nearly killed by a shopping cart thrown from a parking garage in 2011. Marion Hedges was emotional as the verdict was announced Friday. The 53-year-old said it was the end of "a long, long road." Hedges was injured at the East River Plaza Mall in Harlem in 2011 after buying Halloween candy for underprivileged children.
A Cook County jury on Thursday awarded $2.8 million to a former supervisor for Chicago’s now-defunct police oversight agency, who alleged in a lawsuit against the city that he was fired for refusing to change his findings in police shootings he considered unjustified. Jurors deliberated for less than an hour before reaching a verdict in favor of Lorenzo Davis, a former supervisor for the Independent Police Review Authority .
BOSTON — A federal jury has awarded $18.4 million in damages to a man who said in a lawsuit that two doctors failed to test him for HIV, which allowed the virus to progress to AIDS.
The Boston Globe reports the jury ruled Monday in favor of 48-year-old Sean Stentiford in his medical malpractice lawsuit.
A federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday that the structure of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, forbidding the agency from suing a company that makes cash advances to consumers waiting on payouts from settlement agreements or judgments entered in their favor.
A $20 million award was recently upheld in a car accident lawsuit after an appeals court panel found the trial judge was justified in allowing the jury to consider additional evidence. In the original trial, the judge allowed the jury to consider a 2010 report which showed that there had been 485 accidents at various Cumberland Farms stores between the years of 1990 and 2010. Cumberland challenged this, claiming that the judge abused his discretion. The company requested an appeal and a new trial based on the grounds that the jury allegedly acted out of emotion instead of logic.
Becton Dickinson & Co. subsidiary C.R. Bard this week failed to win a new trial after a jury awarded nearly $4 million to the plaintiff in a bellwether product liability lawsuit brought over Bard’s inferior vena cava filter.
Plaintiff Sherr-Una Booker was implanted in June 2007 with a Bard G2 IVC filter to mitigate her risk of pulmonary embolism during or after a surgery, according to court documents.
Walmart loses appeal over $1.39M award to woman injured by falling box at Farmers Branch store Filed under Retail at Get Daily Dallas News Headlines Sign Up Get Unlimited Digital Access Your first month is less than a dollar. $0.99 for first 4 weeks Subscribe Now An appeals court denied an appeal from Walmart to toss out a verdict awarding $1.39 million to a Texas woman after a cakesicle box fell on her head.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to hear an appeal filed by Merck, which is attempting to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which reinstated more than 1,000 Fosamax femur fracture lawsuits pending in the federal court system last year. A petition has been filed asking the Supreme Court to overturn a decision that restored the lawsuits after they were originally thrown out by the trial judge.
A US District Court jury announced a verdict in a medical malpractice case awarding Sean Stentiford $18,400,000 against two doctors associated with Lahey Clinic.
A US District Court jury announced a verdict in a medical malpractice case awarding Sean Stentiford $18,400,000 against two doctors associated with Lahey Clinic. The two physicians Dr. Southard and Dr. Hreib attended to Mr. Stentiford while he was a patient at the Lahey Clinic.
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The pharmaceutical giant behind the painkiller OxyContin revealed it cut its entire remaining sales team in a shift away from opioids. Purdue Pharma announced the changes Tuesday, which will effectively end any contact the company has with medical providers regarding their medications. The company eliminated more than half of their sales force in February when they announced an official end to their promotion of opioid painkillers directly to doctors, reports the Hartford Courant.
In answering a pair of certified question posed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Justice Keith Blackwell concluded that, while a personal injury settlement for a woman left in a coma following a car wreck substantially limited the family’s ability to recover in a wrongful death suit, the family could still seek at least some non-economic damages for the loss of the woman’s life.
Bibbs, et al. v. Toyota Motor Corp., et al, S18Q0075.
West Palm Beach, FL—Jurors last week imposed a $500,000 punitive verdict against R.J. Reynolds but cleared Philip Morris of punitive responsibility over a long-time smoker’s cancer. Perrotto v. R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, 2007CA023841.
The verdict followed eight days of proceedings limited to punitive liability against the tobacco companies for Nick Perrotto’s lung cancer, and came four years after a compensatory award in the case because of a Florida Supreme Court decision expanding punitive claims against tobacco companies in similar lawsuits.
Nick Perrotto smoked for 40 years before doctors diagnosed him with lung cancer ...
The fatal police shooting of Ricky Ball in October 2015 convulsed the city of Columbus, Mississippi. Residents marched. Some businesses, fearing a race riot because a white cop had killed a black man, closed on protest day.
Officer Canyon Boykin sued the city for racial discrimination, claiming he’d been unfairly fired for being a white cop who’d killed a black person. Just before his discrimination lawsuit was to go to trial last year, the city settled with Boykin for an undisclosed amount.
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