Watch The Cochran Firm's Mecca Anderson Deliver a Searing Argument En Route to a $3.5M Verdict in a Nightclub Shooting Trial |VIDEO|
Jun 4, 2018
As the final chance to speak before a jury deliberates, closing rebuttal is one of the most crucial pieces of a plaintiff’s case, and it can be the most effective point to request damages. In a 2017 trial over the shooting of two club patrons, Mec...
Jun 1, 2018
A trial involving 22 plaintiffs represented by noted attorney Mark Lanier over the alleged health risks of Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products begins jury selection Monday in Missouri state court.
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Jun 1, 2018
This week CVN is revisiting the first lawsuit involving Wright Medical's hip implants to go to trial, which CVN covered in 2015 in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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Jun 1, 2018
A Nevada state court jury slapped truck manufacturer Navistar International Corp. and a local towing company with a $3.38 million verdict on Tuesday in a products liability lawsuit filed by a woman injured after a tow truck parked at a gas station...
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RJR Cleared in $5M+ Suit Over Florida Smoker's COPD
May 30, 2018
Jurors last week cleared R.J. Reynolds of fault for the respiratory disease a Florida man developed following decades of smoking the company’s cigarettes.
May 29, 2018
The testimony of Dr. Hugo Cheng was pivotal in obtaining a $6 million verdict for the family of a woman who died following complications from a bowel obstruction.
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May 29, 2018
A Florida state court judge last Friday struck down the state legislature’s ban on smokable medical marijuana, concluding the prohibition was unconstitutional.
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May 25, 2018
In this tobacco case, plaintiff claims defendant hid the dangers of cigarettes, leading to addiction and smoking-related disease.
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Mistrial Declared In J&J Talc Trial After Jurors Fail To Reach Verdict
May 25, 2018
A South Carolina state court judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the fourth lawsuit to go to trial over the alleged presence of asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based products.
May 22, 2018
A high-stakes trial over the dangers of asbestos supposedly present in Johnson & Johnson’s talc powder products began its second week in South Carolina state court on Monday, with all sides clashing over the cause of a young attorney’s rare and fa...
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May 22, 2018
Attorneys sparred Monday over what, if any, responsibility the nation’s two largest cigarette makers bore for the lung cancer death of a long-time Florida smoker, as closings wrapped before the case went to the jury.
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May 22, 2018
A tobacco industry scheme to undermine medical evidence of smoking’s risks led to a Florida woman’s fatal cancer, an attorney for the woman’s family said Friday, as trial opened against R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.
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