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Drug Company Taps Big Gun to Fight $400 Million Verdict

After defeat in the First District, Swiss pharmaceutical firm Actelion has turned to Quinn Emanuel's Kathleen Sullivan to take its case to the California Supreme Court.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Plaintiff With One Glass Eye Settles Following Collision

By | January 28, 2014
On July 2, 2010, plaintiff Jeffrey Levan, 54, was driving a motorcycle along Amity Avenue in Douglassville, Pa., when Kevin Hafer reversed out of his driveway and collided with Levan, according to the plaintiffs' mediation memorandum. Levan claimed to sustain leg injuries.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Street Vendor Sues Atlanta for Fees And Lost Business

The head of Atlanta's street vendors association has sued the city for how it continued to bar him from working on public property even after a judge declared a vending restriction law unconstitutional in 2012.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Worker Run Over by Backhoe Awarded $3.3 Million

By | January 27, 2014
A jury has awarded $3.3 million to a worker whose torso and pelvis were run over by a backhoe. Denis Mejia and a crew were excavating and paving a drainage ditch when a co-worker backed over him.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Preserving Claims for Future Damages After an Oil Spill

Oil spill claims are unique: Damages are large and difficult to discern, and they occur over a long period of time. Regardless of the methods used to recover incurred damages, an injured party's lawyer quickly should develop a strategy to protect against future damages--both first-party damages and liability to third parties and government entities.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Police Chase Case Ends In $727,000 Settlement

Laricha Langley, et al. v. City of New Haven, et al.: A teenager who was seriously injured after a Jeep being chased by a police cruiser crashed into her vehicle at more than 60 mph has settled her lawsuit for $727,000.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Police Chase Case Ends In $727,000 Settlement

Laricha Langley, et al. v. City of New Haven, et al.: A teenager who was seriously injured after a Jeep being chased by a police cruiser crashed into her vehicle at more than 60 mph has settled her lawsuit for $727,000.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Judge Upholds $5.8 Million Award In Prempro Case

Margaret B. Fraser and Joseph T. Fraser v. Wyeth and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: A Connecticut federal judge has upheld a jury verdict that totals nearly $5.8 million in the case of a Lakeville woman who claimed she developed breast cancer after taking the menopause drug Prempro.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

From One Kiss to a Hostile Work Environment

It usually takes a pattern to establish a hostile office environment. But some courts are looking at just one really egregious incident.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judge's Handling of Jury Note at Issue

Two weeks after Atlanta attorney Wayne Grant lost a medical malpractice trial over a distressed birth that had left his client's baby a quadriplegic and blind, a juror from the case called Grant at his office.
9 minute read

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