By Tom McParland | August 15, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday said that insurers of bankrupt mining company W.R. Grace & Co. could be on the hook for asbestos exposure claims, leaving the issue to a bankruptcy judge to decide.
By Charles Toutant | August 15, 2018
The Third Circuit on Wednesday found no abuse of discretion in rejection of the plaintiff's medical expert for failure to proffer a sufficiently reliable causation methodology under the standard set out in the U.S. Supreme Court's 1993 "Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals" decision.
By Michael Booth | August 15, 2018
"It would be unfair to impose sanctions in a case where the only means for a party to avoid sanctions would be to pay a greater amount than the jury's verdict against the party, without advance notice of that consequence," Justice Faustino Fernandez-Vina said in "Willner v. Vertical Reality."
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By Robert Storace | August 14, 2018
A Superior Court jury awarded Ana Maria Capeles $146,001 on Aug. 3 following a car collision in a Waterbury parking lot. Capeles suffered neck and back pain, and the neck injuries are permanent.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 13, 2018
“I had 200 calls this morning from people wanting to sign up,” said plaintiff counsel R. Brent Wisner, of Los Angeles-based Baum Hedlund Aristei Goldman.
By Michael Booth | David Gialanella | August 13, 2018
A plaintiff will receive $7 million in his Middlesex County suit, Vaidya v. Bank of America, as compensation for injuries he sustained when he slipped…
By Amanda Bronstad | August 10, 2018
Jurors awarded $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages to plaintiff DeWayne “Lee” Johnson.
By Greg Land | August 10, 2018
Defense attorney Lee Welborn said the jury, which included eight members from Latin America, relied on their experiences with home-country drivers to decide the plaintiff should have been more alert.
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By Robert Storace | August 7, 2018
Eladio Balbuena underwent several surgeries to his hip after movers dropped an 800-pound refrigerator on him in 2013 at the Town Market on Park Street in Hartford.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Max Mitchell | August 7, 2018
The justices agreed to consider whether the state Superior Court last year misinterpreted the Fair Share Act by holding that judges should not simply divide the damages equally among all the defendants.
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