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A Texas judge has overturned his previous $16.2 million judgment against the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, which was sued by the parents of a pledge who died allegedly after a hazing event at the University of Texas.
The judge has accepted the fraternity’s explanation that the failure to respond to the lawsuit was an accident, and the lawsuit will now proceed.
A Kansas jury awarded $23.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from injuries in a semitrailer accident in New Mexico.
The U.S. District Judge reduced the actual award to nearly $15.3 million because the jury decided the driver of the other truck was only 65 percent at fault.
The truck driver tested positive for methamphetamine while driving a truck for Swift Transportation.
A federal investigation has found that Texas is failing to protect disabled residents who are living in large state facilities, from possible lapses in health care.
The U.S. Justice Department said in a report that deficiencies in staffing put residents in 13 facilities at risk of abuse and neglect .
The probe concluded that serious problems and deficiencies in care currently exist throughout the facilities where nearly 5,000 vulnerable Texans live.
“We have concluded that numerous conditions and practices at the facilities violate the constitutional and federal statutory rights of their residents,” said an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Nearly 1 ½ years after a girl’s feet were severed on a ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, the amusement park has reached a confidential out-of-court settlement with the teenager’s family, who had sued the park for negligence.
The amount of the settlement wasn’t disclosed, but it is noted that the girl’s unpaid medical bills total nearly $500,000 and that Kentucky law allows recovery for future lost income, as well as pain and suffering.
A man who was left quadriplegic when weightlifting equipment at his gym crashed onto his neck was awarded $11 million in a lawsuit stemming from his injury. A U.S. District court awarded the money to the man, who has been awarded a total of $18.6 million following seven years of litigation.
The 39-year-old former Marine was doing squats on a machine at Gold’s Gym in Venice when the horizontal bar of weights bearing a couple hundred pounds of weight fell on his neck. The machine did not have adjustable safety stops installed.
The use of intra-articular pumps, to deliver medication to the shoulder following arthroscopic shoulder surgery has been linked to the development of a painful and debilitating condition which causes the loss of cartilage in the shoulder.
The medical condition, is known as Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis, PAGCL, and has no consistently successful treatment and often results in permanent shoulder pain.
STATUS OF SHOULDER PAIN PUMP LITIGATION: Lawsuits are currently pending and potential cases are still being reviewed by Dr Shezad Malik Law Firm.
Motions have been filed to consolidate all Federal shoulder pain pump lawsuits and transfer the cases to one court for pre-trial proceedings.
Roche Holding AG must pay $12.9 million to plaintiffs who blamed the Accutane acne medicine for their inflammatory bowel disease, a New Jersey jury ruled, handing the company its fourth trial loss in the case.
Roche didn’t give proper warnings to doctors for three Florida residents about the risks of Accutane, which was a substantial factor in their illness, a state court jury found yesterday in Atlantic City. The judge combined three lawsuits into one trial. With three earlier losses for individuals, Roche has now lost jury verdicts involving six plaintiffs.
A Florida jury decided that Johnson & Johnson must pay more than $13 million to the family of a woman who died from an overdose of painkillers delivered by a patch made by the companies.
Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and Alza, the subsidiaries, were responsible for the woman’s death. The Johnson & Johnson units have lost all three cases to go to trial so far over the patches.
The New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson lost the first two cases as juries in Texas and Florida ordered the company to pay a total of $6.2 million to the families of former users who died of painkiller overdoses.
The Catholic Diocese and the Marianist religious order have agreed to pay $4 million to settle the claims of 23 men who said they were sexually abused when they attended a Catholic high school in Pueblo.
The agreement involved alleged abuse at Roncalli High School between 1966 and 1971.
Lawsuits were filed on behalf of the former students who allege a former Brother lured them at the school and asked them to participate in an experiment about trust. He then placed a cloth soaked in ether, a compound used for anesthesia, over their mouths, then sexually abused them as they lay helpless.
An appeals court upheld a $3.2 million award to a woman who said she suffered permanent nerve damage after eating sushi.
The woman was awarded the judgment from a jury more than two years ago but a judge overturned the award. In the decision the 4th District Court of Appeal reversed.
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