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Palm Beach Judge Allows Punitives Against Toyota in Paralyzing Crash

Circuit Judge Meenu Sasser may allow a jury to consider punitive as well as compensatory damages when the case of quadriplegic Bret Quinlan goes to trial.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Updated: $5 Million Settlement Reached in Fatal Christmas Fire

A contractor who accidentally caused a fire at a Stamford home that killed three girls and two of their grandparents on Christmas 2011 has agreed to settle part of a wrongful-death lawsuit by paying the children's father $5 million.
3 minute read

Law.com

Trial Challenges Palestinian Groups' Role in Terror Attacks

An attorney for American families whose loved ones were murdered or injured in a string of terror attacks in Israel over a decade ago asked a New York jury Tuesday to hold the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority responsible for the carnage.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff's Leg Was Fractured in Multi-Vehicle Collision

By | January 13, 2015
On Oct. 1, 2010, plaintiff Shawn Garnett, 19, a retail employee, was a passenger in a 2003 Ford Explorer traveling on New Falls Road in Middletown Township. The driver, Meagan Peterson, lost control, crossed the center line, and struck two other vehicles head-on. Garnett, who was in the rear seat behind the driver, claimed he suffered a fractured left femur.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Panel Follows but Criticizes Landmark Remittitur Ruling

In the latest opinion to tackle remittitur by New Jersey trial judges, an appeals court Jan. 7 upheld the denial of a motion to reduce a $2.4 million personal injury award, but criticized the 2011 landmark Supreme Court ruling that allowed remittitur based on the trial judge's "feel of the case" and comparable verdicts.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Protostorm LLC v. Antonelli

By | January 05, 2015
Respondeat Superior Renders Law Firm Liable For $6.696 Million in Compensatory Damages
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff Said Staff Failed to Monitor Infirm Patient

By | December 30, 2014
According to the pretrial memorandum of plaintiff Eunice Rogers, on June 2, 2012, the plaintiff's mother, Mildred D. Rogers, who was 83 at the time, was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital, of the North Philadelphia Health System, for treatment of aspiration pneumonia.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Plaintiff Collects $450,000 After 40-Foot Plunge From Tree

A man who fell out of a friend's tree while attempting to cut branches has settled his lawsuit against his pal for $450,000.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

UPS Delivery Person Gets $1.1 Million After Driveway Fall

A United Postal Service delivery person who was unable to work again after injuring an ankle on a customer's icy driveway has settled his lawsuit for $1.1 million.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney's First Trial Results in Nearly $100,000 Verdict

David Walsh Jr. v. Peerless Insurance Co.: A high school girls' soccer coach who was permanently injured in a car accident was recently awarded $99,000 by a New London jury.
4 minute read

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