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Daily Business Review

Lawyers Win First Punitives in Non-Engle Tobacco Trial

Philip Gerson and Edward Schwartz teamed with Gary Paige to win a nearly $13.5 million verdict for a widower whose wife died after smoking Winstons for 35 years.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Attorney Says Rapid Growth of Aviation Brings New Litigation Concerns

Podhurst Orseck aviation attorney Steve Marks has cleared a lot of hurdles to win hundreds of millions of dollars for plane crash victims in the past 25 years.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Six Flags Fights $35M Verdict, Says Site of Attack Wasn't Its Responsibility

Six Flags Over Georgia's lawyers were at the Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday, hoping to persuade an appellate panel to toss the state's biggest verdict of 2013.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Nominal Damages Awarded to Lawyer for Ex-Client's Libel Per Se

A lawyer who successfully sued a disgruntled client for defamation after she posted a five-page denunciation of him on ripoffreport.com is entitled only to nominal damages, the First Department said Thursday.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Get Rich and Get Bill Brewer; Fiddy Taps Texas Litigator

Curtis Jackson III, a rapper known as 50 Cent, has assembled a high-powered legal team as he files for personal bankruptcy protection in Connecticut following an adverse $5 million judgment against him in sex tape litigation.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Purpura v. Barton Heights Veterinary Hosp., PICS Case No. 15-1071 (C.P. Monroe April 30, 2015) Zulick, J. (10 pages).

In this veterinary malpractice action, plaintiffs' failure to allege intentional, reckless or malicious acts precluded punitive damages, a disputed issue of fact precluded dismissal pursuant to the statute of limitations, and there was no cause of action for the animal's pain and suffering or the loss of companionship. Defendants' preliminary objections denied in part and sustained in part.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judge Orders Time Warner Cable to Pay for 'Robocalls'

The fact that a phone number is reassigned does not shield a company from liability under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act for "robocalling" consumers without their consent, a federal judge has ruled.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Security Company Tyco Accused of Failing to Protect Confidential Information Before Drug Heist

Boca Raton-based Tyco Integrated Security LLC is set for trial this month in a $42 million civil negligence case after thieves stole thousands of boxes of prescription drugs from an Eli Lilly and Co. warehouse.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards Pizzeria Owner For Loss of Taste

On Sept. 1, 2009, plaintiff Antonio Costagliola, 34, a pizzeria owner, presented to otolaryngologist Samuel Rizzo, of Pittston, because of episodes of recurrent tonsillitis for approximately five years.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Bailey v. Pham, PICS Case No. 15-1038 (C.P. Philadelphia June 15, 2015) Massiah-Jackson, J. (7 pages).

The jury appropriately assessed the evidence to arrive at the determination that defendant was causally liable for plaintiff's injuries but that those injuries were not compensable.
4 minute read

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