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The Legal Intelligencer

Choice of Law Key to Punitives in Tylenol MDL

Whether punitive damages will be unlimited or not available at all in the bellwether trial for the Tylenol MDL will depend on whether Alabama or New Jersey law applies.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Domestic Violence Death Leads to $3 Million Settlement

A Connecticut city where police officers and dispatchers were accused of negligence and ethnic discrimination in their response to what became a murder-suicide in 2010 has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the victim's family for $3 million.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

City Asks Full Circuit to Reject 'Novelty' of $18M Ruling

New York City is fighting the reinstatement of an $18 million verdict against police for the mishandling of a rape kit that delayed the exoneration of a man for 12 years.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Georgia Judges Fail to Curb Excessive Verdicts [LETTER]

By | April 15, 2015
I have followed with interest the coverage of the Walden $150 million verdict against Chrysler earlier this month here in Georgia ("Jury Adds $30M to Verdict After Plaintiffs' Lawyer Ticks Down Boy's Last 60 Seconds," Daily Report, April 13, 2015).
7 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Jury Award Reduced From $800,000 to $60,000 in Negligence Case

A Superior Court judge has reduced an $800,000 jury award down to $60,000 in a lawsuit brought by the family of an 80-year-old woman who fell outside her apartment house and died of hypothermia because she couldn't get up.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Bill Would Guard Net Worth Evidence in Determining Exemplary Damages

"Any judge presiding over the case would have to determine there is enough evidence to use net worth when determining the damages," said the bill's author, Sen. Troy Fraser, R-Horseshoe Bay.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards Punitives for Kraft Factory Shooting

A Philadelphia jury awarded more than $38.5 million in punitive damages to the estates of two Kraft employees who were fatally gunned down by a disgruntled co-worker.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Court of Appeals Curbs Lawyers' Claims in Suit Over Their Dead Dog

The Court of Appeals has ruled that the owners of a dog who sued a kennel when the dog died after allegedly receiving the wrong medication should be able to present thousands of dollars in veterinary bills as evidence of the mixed-breed's value.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff's Lawyer Barred from Defense's Medical Exam

A plaintiff's attorney is not allowed to be present during neuropsychological testing of his or her client, a Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas judge has ruled.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Jury Awards $38.5M in Punitives for Fatal Kraft Factory Shooting

A Philadelphia jury has awarded more than $38.5 million in punitive damages to the estates of two Kraft employees who were fatally gunned down by a disgruntled co-worker.
5 minute read

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