Lawyer sued for harassment wins $1.25M counterclaim
A California jury has rejected a sexual harassment and wrongful termination claim brought by a former law firm paralegal, instead awarding her former boss $1.25 million in his countersuit for...
View ArticleJury awards $36.7 million in abortion malpractice case
A judge has denied a request for a new trial after a Florida jury awarded a woman $36.7 million in damages after her child was born with catastrophic disabilities due to a botched abortion. The jury...
View ArticlePriest hit with $100 million verdict for sexual abuse
A Miami jury has returned a verdict of more than $100 million – including a $90 million punitive damages award – against a Catholic priest for sexually abusing a Michigan man when he was an at-risk...
View ArticleFlorida jury awards $27M in ‘Engle’ tobacco case
A Florida jury has awarded $27 million – including a $20 million punitive award – to a former smoker who lost a lung to cancer. “The evidence showed that tobacco companies, for 50 years, had lied to...
View Article$19M verdict for contract worker burned in Iraq
A Dallas jury has awarded a federal contract worker nearly $19 million after he suffered third-degree burns on over half his body from scalding hot water while stationed in Iraq. “He has had skin...
View ArticleAmbulance crash victim wins $117 million award
A woman who suffered a severed spinal cord and traumatic brain injury in an ambulance crash that occurred while she was 7 months pregnant has been awarded $117 million by a Louisiana jury. In December...
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