December 6, 2023
Bayer was ordered on Tuesday to pay nearly $3.5 million by a Philadelphia jury that found the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused a woman’s cancer, the company said, the latest in a string of trial losses for the company as it …
November 22, 2023
A Florida judge found “reasonable evidence” that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and other managers knew the automaker’s vehicles had a defective Autopilot system but still allowed the cars to be driven unsafely, according to a ruling. Judge Reid Scott, …
November 2, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) — A jury in Illinois has ordered Chicago-based Conagra Brands to pay $7.1 million to a Pennsylvania woman who was badly injured in 2017 when a can of commercial brand cooking spray ignited in a kitchen at her …
August 14, 2023
ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The family of a Long Island, New York, man who died after being beaten by police with flashlights and fists during a 2008 traffic stop was awarded $35 million in damages by a federal jury on …
August 11, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) __ A doctor used too much force and decapitated a Georgia woman`s baby during delivery, according to a lawsuit attorneys said was filed Wednesday. The baby`s mother and father, Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr., attended a …
July 26, 2023
A jury’s $2.8 million punitive damage award against an insurance agency and broker that tried to poach a competitor’s staff and book of business was not excessive even though it was more than 10 times the total amount of compensatory …
July 11, 2023
Lawyers for a California man who says he developed a rare cancer from exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ.N talc-based baby powder on Monday urged a jury to order the company to pay heavy punitive damages, calling its …
February 3, 2023
A U.S. judge rejected FedEx Corp’s request to throw out or reduce a jury’s $366 million damages award to a Black former employee who said the package delivery company fired her after she complained about racial discrimination. FedEx appealed the …
January 6, 2023
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay for their role in the violence that erupted during the deadly “Unite the Right” rally …
November 2, 2022
FedEx Corp. said it will challenge what may be the largest-ever jury verdict won by a worker suing over racial bias, $366 million awarded to a Black former saleswoman who claimed the company fired her after she complained about discrimination. …