Boca Aviation v. Proskauer Rose
May 6, 2010
4-week legal malpractice jury trial. Boca Aviation was a fixed base operator at Boca Raton Airport. Boca Aviation had a long-term lease on 45 acres, and was the sole provider of aviation services, including fuel, at Boca Airport.When additional ai...
Apr 30, 2010
Engle-progeny tobacco products liability jury trial. Matthew Buonomo was a lifetime three-pack-per-day cigarette smoker. According to the plaintiff, Matthew was addicted to smoking and died of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease emphysema.Ac...
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Apr 16, 2010
Willis v. Reynolds is an Engle-progeny tobacco trial against R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. The case was originally tried in April and May of 2010, but ended in a mistrial after the jury had deliberated for several days. The retrial was complete...
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Apr 9, 2010
In this Engle-progeny tobacco trial, plaintiff argued that there was no doubt among the treating physicians that Laura Grossman's death in November, 1995, at age 38, resulted from lung cancer, and the jury would only hear otherwise from a defense ...
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Putney v. RJ Reynolds
Apr 5, 2010
Margot Putney, the decedent in this Engle-progeny tobacco trial, died in 1995. According to the plaintiff, and Ms. Putney's treating oncologist, Ms. Putney died from small-cell lung cancer caused by smoking.According to the defense, Ms. Putney di...
Mar 3, 2010
Cohen v. RJ Reynolds is an Engle-progeny tobacco trial Robin Cohen's husband was a smoker who died of cancer in 1994.The defense argued that Mr. Cohen died of cancer of the pleura, not lung cancer, and therefore Cohen was not a victim of lung can...
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Feb 2, 2010
A tractor trailer jack-knifed into traffic at a road construction crew's moving roadblock, which resulted in an 11-vehicle pile-up on I-75 in Florida. The rolling roadblock was located on the blind side of a hill. Two people died as a result of t...
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Jan 21, 2010
The plaintiff-mail carrier's mesothelioma allegedly resulted not from vocational exposure, but from exposure to joint compounds in home improvement products that he allegedly purchased from hardware stores in the 1960's and 1970's to repair a recu...
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Chemplex v. Premier Lab
Dec 7, 2009
5 day trade secrets jury trial.Chemplex Industries Inc. alleges Premier Lab Supply used proprietary information to infringe on its one-of-a-kind spooling machine.A former employee of Chemplex allegedly stole the machine and copied designs for seve...
Dec 7, 2009
4-day medical malpractice jury trial involving an improperly diagnosed spinal injury.
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Dec 4, 2009
Medical malpractice jury trial involving a baby who suffered a brachial plexus injury, allegedly as a result of a vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery without complications.The jury found in favor of the defendant.
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Nov 16, 2009
Plaintiff allegedly bit a Wendy's cheeseburger containing a metal object -- possibly a nail or a staple -- which caused mouth injuries, including dislocation of the temporomandibular joints (TMJ), requiring bilateral surgery. The defendant claime...
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