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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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)
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.
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 )
Mass Toxic 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").
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.
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)
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
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.
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
