Estate of Jose Ruvalcaba v. City of Victorville
Sep 29, 2022
Jose Ruvalcaba died after he was struck in the head by a shovel after an altercation with workers from the city of Victorville. Representatives for Ruvalcabas family claim that the city workers used excessive force against an unarmed individual.A...
Sep 29, 2022
Jurors last week handed down a $4.5 million verdict for the lung cancer death of a Florida woman, but apportioned a fraction of responsibility to the nation’s two largest tobacco companies, likely significantly reducing the post-verdict award.
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Sep 27, 2022
Joseph Serhal fell into a ditch at around 1 am after finishing up with his shift as a casino pit boss. This ditch was allegedly due to construction workers from a public utility company digging a six-foot trench during Serhal's shift. Serhal conte...
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Sep 27, 2022
A California state court jury has awarded $36.25 million to the parents of a motorcyclist who died after colliding with a pickup truck.
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$1.3M Verdict in Tobacco Trial That Raised Questions Over When Punitive Liability Is Triggered
Sep 23, 2022
Jurors this week awarded $1.3 million to the family of a Florida man for the role cigarettes played in his coronary artery disease. But they ultimately declined to award punitive damages in an unusual verdict that touched on questions concerning w...
Sep 22, 2022
In this Engle-progeny case, Omar Villanueva suffered from fatal lung cancer after smoking cigarettes for years. Villanueva immigrated to the United States from Cuba when he was 37, and died from cancer in 1994. Villanueva's family attributes this ...
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Sep 20, 2022
Jurors yesterday handed down a $1 billion verdict against Philip Morris for the role they found the tobacco giant played in the lung cancer death of a Massachusetts woman.
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Sep 15, 2022
Over the past several weeks, CVN cameras have covered headline-grabbing trials from coast-to-coast, including a pair of 10-figure verdicts, as well as a bellwether mesh trial, a key trial against Monsanto in Missouri, and more. Check out what's ne...
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Cigarette Design the Key Issue as Wrongful Death Trial Opens Against Philip Morris and RJR
Sep 14, 2022
Attorneys Monday debated whether defective cigarette design caused the lung cancer death of a Florida woman, as trial opened against the nation’s two largest cigarette makers.
Sep 12, 2022
In this tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages for smoking-related disease.
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Sep 12, 2022
In this trial, Diana Scandella developed fatal lung cancer after smoking cigarettes since she was around 12 years old. Scandella's family sues Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, producers of the cigarettes Scandella smoked for decades, claiming that...
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Sep 9, 2022
Jurors last week handed down a $6 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds for the role it found the tobacco giant played in the respiratory disease-related death of a Florida woman.
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