It only took a few hours for Southeast Texas jurors in the first trial over Yamaha Rhino all-terrain vehicle rollovers to return a swift ruling of no negligence — a verdict in the company’s favor that could have far reaching effects. With hundreds of Yamaha ATV suits pending in courts…
A jury returned a nearly $3.8 million verdict against a Montgomery hotel where a 19-year-old football player suffered injuries that led to his death two years ago. Derrick Marshall was a standout receiver who had signed with Alabama State University. Marshall was about to start two-a-day workouts with the Hornets…
An advertisement for Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) Ertaczo, a product to treat the fungal infection known as athlete’s foot, makes unproven claims about the medicine’s effectiveness and omits key information about risks associated with the product, federal regulators said on Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration said Johnson & Johnson…
A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant who was left paralyzed and a special-teams coach whose neck was broken in the May 2 collapse of the team’s practice facility in Irving filed separate lawsuits against the Pennsylvania-based company that built the structure. The lawsuits, which also name an engineer and five other…
Altria Group Inc., parent company of Philip Morris USA, the Marlboro cigarette maker, must pay $13.8 million in punitive damages to the daughter of a lifelong smoker who died of lung cancer in 2003, a jury found. The verdict for Jodie Bullock, daughter of Betty Bullock, who smoked Marlboro and…
Camp Lejeune residents blame rare breast cancer cluster on the water. For three decades, dry-cleaning chemicals and industrial solvents laced the water used by local Marines and their families. Mike Partain and at least 19 others developed male breast cancer. One night in April 2007, as Mike Partain hugged his…
For three decades, dry-cleaning chemicals and industrial solvents laced the water used by local Marines and their families. Mike Partain and at least 19 others developed male breast cancer. One night in April 2007, as Mike Partain hugged his wife before going to bed, she felt a small lump above…
A man severely injured in a pileup that killed three people on Highway 40 (Interstate 64) last year is entitled to more than $13.8 million from a truck driver and his company, a federal magistrate judge has ruled. The man’s wife has been awarded $4.2 million more. The crash left…
A new product liability lawsuit has been filed in St. Clair County, Ill. over the birth control pill Yaz, by a woman who says the drug caused her to suffer a blood clot in her lung, known as a pulmonary embolism. The Yaz blood clot lawsuit was filed by Kerry…
About 11% of the U.S. market for oral contraceptives is now accounted for by Yasmin, a combination pill containing the novel progestin, drospirenone, in combination with ethinyl estradiol (EE). Yaz lawsuits are personal injury cases in which women injured after taking Yaz birth control seek compensation for their injuries and…