April 1, 2013
A Spokane, Wash., jury awarded $813,000 this week to a woman whose foot was amputated following the wrong diagnosis by her physician. It was the second time a jury heard Darlene Turner’s medical malpractice suit against now-retired Dr. Nathan Stime. …
February 25, 2013
A jury on Monday said Johnson & Johnson should pay a South Dakota woman $3.35 million for failing to adequately warn her doctor of the potential dangers of a vaginal mesh implant made by the company’s Ethicon Inc subsidiary, and …
February 22, 2013
A jury in northern New Jersey has awarded more than $2.7 million to the family of a man killed and several workers injured in a 2008 blast at a metal casting plant. The jury in Hackensack awarded $1.4 of the …
February 4, 2013
A jury has awarded a northern Maine woman $525,000 in her lawsuit against an insurance company that disputed her claims that she injured her back in a car accident. Berman and Simmons law firm says a Kennebec County Superior Court …
January 18, 2013
A Leelanau County, Mich., jury has awarded $650,000 to a teenager whose leg was crushed in a cherry orchard accident two summers ago. Colton Brooks was 17 when he lost control of the cherry catcher he was operating on July …
December 27, 2012
A man who was paralyzed during a high-speed chase in rural eastern Nebraska is entitled to the $1 million he was awarded in his lawsuit against Platte County, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The high court ruled that Brian …
October 24, 2012
A West Texas jury has awarded $11 million to a man who was injured by a pipe casing that fell from an oilfield elevator. The verdict in favor of Eliazar Trevino Jr. was announced Monday after a week-long civil trial …
October 19, 2012
A former Fayetteville, N.C., surgeon has been ordered to pay more than $6 million in a malpractice lawsuit. The Fayetteville Observer reports that the lawsuit said Geraldine Nicholson of Lumber Bridge died in October 2006 after spending nearly a year …
October 8, 2012
A jury has awarded a Charlotte, N.C., couple $1.7 million in a lawsuit against a local restaurant in connection with a head-on collision that killed the couple’s unborn son. Attorneys for Matt and Meredith Eastridge say 25-year-old David Canter Huffman …
October 5, 2012
A superior court jury in central California has awarded a man $10.2 million in damages that resulted from dirt bike collision in 2007 with another vehicle. Attorneys for Stockton resident Daniel Nixon, 50, say he received what they believe to …