GA Med Mal Trial over ER Patient's Strokes, Brain Injury Opens Next Week
Feb 11, 2016
Trial is scheduled to begin next week in a suit by a man who claims a Conyers hospital’s medical staff failed to properly treat his wife’s brain aneurysm in time to prevent a series of strokes that caused her life-long brain damage.
Feb 5, 2016
A security video of a man submerged underwater for six minutes during a pool party unsupervised by staff of a facility for the mentally disabled, combined with the facility representatives testimony, built a $2 million verdict in a trial against t...
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Feb 3, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, plaintiffs claim defendant R.J. Reynolds concealed the hazards of cigarettes, leading to a smoking-related disease.
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Jan 30, 2016
A jury Thursday largely cleared the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers of responsibility for the respiratory disease and death of a decades-long smoker, awarding $240,000 in unreduced damages but finding the smoker 98% at fault.
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R.J. Reynolds Cleared in $14M Trial Over Hospital Worker's Fatal Cancer
Jan 28, 2016
Jurors Tuesday found tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds not liable for the fatal lung cancer that killed a Florida man who smoked for more than 40 years.
Jan 25, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Ina Ahrens claims Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related disease of Karl Ahrens.
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Jan 21, 2016
Attorneys drew battle lines over the reasons behind a long-time smoker’s respiratory disease as trial opened last week in a suit by his widow against the makers of the cigarettes her husband smoked.
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Jan 21, 2016
Experts are often the most crucial witnesses in a trial: their testimony, and how they present it to a jury, can turn a verdict. In this series, CVN analyzes the nation’s most important experts, their testimony, and their impact on a trial’s verdi...
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Doctor Responsible For Woman’s Severe Reaction To Acne Medication, Jury Told
Jan 21, 2016
A woman left scarred by an allergic skin reaction to an antibiotic accused her doctor of negligence at a trial that began Wednesday, claiming he failed to take an adequate medical history before prescribing the powerful drug Bactrim to treat her a...
Jan 20, 2016
A California state court jury rejected a womans medical malpractice lawsuit claiming her physician was negligent for treating her acne with a powerful antibiotic that caused a severe allergic reaction which left her with scarring on over 30 perce...
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Jan 15, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Doris Ewing claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related illness of James Ewing.
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Jan 14, 2016
Whether the catastrophic brain damage an Alpharetta woman suffered during a lung procedure was reasonably preventable became the key question presented to jurors as trial began against the anesthesiologists involved in the surgery.
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