Examples: Large Verdicts and Multi Million Dollar
Cases & Legal Settlements
November 2007 - $4.85
billion Class Action Settlement-
The parties announced that Merck & Co., Inc.
has agreed to pay $4.85 billion to resolve Vioxx-related
claims in which a claimant has suffered a heart attack,
sudden cardiac death, or stroke.
2007 - A federal judge in New Orleans
approved a $330 million class action settlement
between Murphy Oil Corp. and residents of a New Orleans
suburb flooded by crude oil during Hurricane Katrina.
2005 – Billion Dollar Verdicts - In one of 2005's largest
verdicts to an individual plaintiff regarding financial
fraud , a Florida jury ordered Morgan Stanley Broker Dealer
to pay $1.45 billion to investor Ronald O. Perelman
for defrauding him in the sale of his camping gear company
- Coleman.
August - 2006 - 51 MILLION DOLLARS -
Awarded by Federal Court Jury in New Orleans - Merck
faced 2 major setbacks in the same week. In New Orleans,
the court and jury found that Merck "knowingly misrepresented
or failed to disclose" information about Vioxx to retired
FBI agent Gerald Barnett's doctors.- Awarding $50 million
in compensatory damages along with $1 million in punitive
damages, saying Merck "acted in wanton, malicious,
willful or reckless disregard for the plaintiff's rights."
Further, on the same day in New Jersey, state Superior
Court Judge Carol Higbee ruled that new evidence uncovered
since the November verdict showed that Merck withheld
information showing heart attacks could
come with use of Vioxx for less than 18 months.Click Here to Complain.
2005 - February, a prominent Houston law firm and a Texas
bank were SMACKED and Beaten with a $65.5 million
verdict in a highly complex estate planning case
that involved major problems and conflicts of interest.
(65 million dollar jury award)
2005 – 3 years after a jury acquitted a company in Florida
of manslaughter and criminal charges, a Florida civil jury
SLAMMED the outdoor advertiser with a $65 million
jury award verdict for the shock and electrocution
of a sixth-grade boy.
Private Jet Pilot Wins $64 Million For Age Discrimination
- In December, a Los Angeles California jury found that
PrivatAir - an aviation company focusing on private airline
services - wrongfully fired Captain Doyle D. Baker on the
basis of his age, defaming him in the termination process
and causing extreme emotional distress. *2005
A Jury in New Jersey found recently that Vioxx significantly
contributed to a 77-year-old man's heart attack awarded
him $9 million in punitive damages , raising
Merck & Co.'s liability in the case to $13.5 million
and intensifying pressure on it to settle such lawsuits.
2006 - Environmental Damages Toxic Tort
- A federal jury verdict has awarded thousands of property
owners $352 million for property damage
caused by the closed Rocky Flats nuclear bomb plant in Colorado.
2004 - Bar liable for worker who got drunk on
the job & hit construction flagger - CASE TYPE:
Dram Shop Drunk Driver - Motor Vehicle - Alcohol Involvement
CASE: Tuski v. Ivyland, Philadelphia Co., Pa.,Ct. C.P. Feb.
Term 2002 No. 4436 JURY VERDICT: $75,684,000 75
Million Verdict
Example of Personal Injury Case 2004 : Ford Explorer rollover-prone
and roof not crash safe and worthy- CASE TYPE : Product
Design Defect, Auto Truck Vehicle - SUV, Motor Vehicle –
Rollover CASE : Buell-Wilson v. Ford Motor Co., San Diego
Co., Calif., Super. Ct. GIC 800836 Los Angeles, Calif. JURY
VERDICT: $369,000,000 (369 Millions Dollars)
2005 - In what may be one of the biggest massive medical
malpractice tort verdicts in the state of Texas,
a state jury awarded $606 million - including a remarkable
$ 600 million dollars in punitive damages
- to the family of an 82-year-old patient who had cancer
and then who died after receiving an overdose of chemotherapy
drugs. 2005 -
In the 9th big loss for Ford in SUV Explorer rollover
cases, a Florida jury awarded $61.2 million to the parents
of an 18-year-old boy who was killed in a 1997 (wrongful
death & Product Defect and Product Liability Issues)
Example of Personal Injury Lawyer Case 2004 : Dodge Caravan
seatback collapsed on baby in a car-seat - CASE TYPE : Automobiles,
Products Liability - Product Design Defect, Wrongful Death,
Motor Vehicle - Rear-ender, Motor Vehicle - Passenger, Motor
Vehicle - Minivan CASE : Flax v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.,
Davidson Co., Tenn., Cir. Ct. O2C-1288 JURY VERDICT
: $105,500,000 (105 Million Dollars )
Asbestos and Welding Rod Fumes Tort Verdicts
- The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First
Department, in a published decision, upheld the July 2003
jury verdict in favor of: Angel Gomez, who died following
the trial, and the late Daniel Tucker. Both gentlement worked
with and around asbestos-containing welding rods. The NY
jury awarded Gomez a total of approximately $3.19 million
against Lincoln Electric Company ("Lincoln"),
reduced 25 percent since Gomez was a cigarette smoker. Tucker's
estate was granted a total of approximately $3.5 million
split between Lincoln and Hobart Brothers Company ("Hobart").
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