The Montana Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in an appeal of a case that could determine whether the state’s $10 million cap on jury awards for punitive damages will stand. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported attorneys debated before the court …
Juanita Jackson died in July 2003, five weeks after she was removed from a Florida nursing home where her family said continual neglect led to multiple bedsores, malnutrition and a fall that injured her head. Trying to collect a $110 …
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. lost a bid to have a judge throw out a combined $9 billion punitive-damage award over claims the drugmakers hid the cancer risks of their Actos diabetes medicine. Jurors properly considered evidence …
A Florida jury has slammed the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. with $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in 1996. The case is one of thousands …
A man who spent nearly 20 years locked in a state psychiatric ward in Lincoln, Neb., is suing doctors for malpractice, saying he was never mentally ill during his time there. John Maxwell Montin, 52, filed the lawsuit Friday in …
An insurance company is contesting a ruling that it pay $18 million in punitive damages after a long court battle over faulty repairs to a Pennsylvania family’s vehicle in 1996. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Nationwide asked the judge Friday …
A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to a criminal charge in a 2004 car crash that killed her fiance is suing General Motors Co. Candice Anderson is asking a federal judge in Tyler to set aside a $75,000 settlement in …
General Motors Co.’s lawyers have said the carmaker will face punitive damages over ignition switch defects if its customers go to trial, creating an urgent need to settle lawsuits. The automaker, which has said it wants to help accident victims, …
A woman has filed a lawsuit against an Iowa skydiving company and pilot following the death of her husband, who was pulled out of an airplane door and fell to his death. Attorneys for Cindy Kidrowski, of Brooklyn, filed the …
A former St. Louis police officer’s $7.5 million damage award in a sexual harassment case could be in jeopardy due to a juror’s unauthorized Google search. Tanisha Ross-Paige won $300,000 in compensatory damages and $7.2 million in punitive damages from …