A $750,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a Jefferson County, Ill., police officer who allegedly used a stun gun unnecessarily on three teenagers and assaulted another. According to the suit, Deputy David Bowers used the stun gun on the teens at the Southern Thirty Adolescent Center two…
“Roche Holding AG won reversal of a $10.5 million verdict over its Accutane [isotretinoin] acne drug because a judge improperly barred the company from using evidence about the medication’s use,” according to an appeals court ruling made in Kendall v. Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., ATL- L-8213-05, New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic…
A Friendswood attorney filed a federal lawsuit over the release of more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants — including high levels of benzene — into the air after a unit failure at BP’s Texas City refinery. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages in the release of pollutants between April 6 and…
AstraZeneca Plc, which settled almost 4,000 product-liability cases this month involving its antipsychotic drug Seroquel through mediation, said it will keep terms of the agreements confidential. The company, said it was defending more than 10,000 cases involving 22,500 plaintiff groups. Some of the cases were previously dismissed because plaintiffs lacked…
The death of a woman who was hit by a car on a crosswalk at the Salt Lake City International Airport has prompted a lawsuit from the woman’s husband. The lawsuit claims that airport officials were aware of the “dangerous traffic situation” at the crosswalk but had done nothing to…
A sports bar in Austell, Ga., has agreed to pay $1 million to the widow of a man killed by a drunk driver who was allegedly over-served by the bar staff. The lawsuit claims that in October 2008, The Sports Grill served alcohol to William Paul Davis IV when he…
Bloomberg News (7/28, Voreacos, Johnson) reports “Merck & Co. paid claims to the families of 3,468 users of its Vioxx painkiller who died of heart attacks or strokes,” a court-appointed administrator told a judge Tuesday. “A $4.85 billion settlement fund made payments to the families of 2,878 Vioxx users who…
A San Diego jury will decide this week if Pizza Hut is liable for a November 2008 accident involving one of their drivers. The accident left a mother and daughter severely injured. According to the lawsuit, driver Nicole Fisk had a seizure while driving during work, causing her to black…
Current, former workers and documents question care of medically fragile residents at the Austin State Supported Living Center the Cardinal residence. Some current and former employees say that Cardinal is so poorly run that residents who are unable to speak for themselves are at serious risk for harm. Five current…
The Washington State Department of Transportation has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man involved in a serious motorcycle crash in 2006. John Lancaster claims in his lawsuit that the DOT was aware for years that the roadway where he crashed was dangerously designed,…