Mar 17, 2025
A California jury ordered Starbucks to pay a man $50 million on Friday, after he accused a drive-through worker of accidentally spilling a hot drink on his thighs and genitals.
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Mar 14, 2025
Jurors this week handed down a $40.57 million verdict against the nation’s two largest cigarette companies, after finding them responsible for a Massachusetts smoker’s fatal lung cancer.
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Mar 12, 2025
A California jury heard openings last week in a lawsuit filed by the residents of a Los Angeles-area artist colony claiming the soil beneath their homes is contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals.
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Conaway v. R.J. Reynolds
Mar 10, 2025
In this "Engle progeny" tobacco litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages allegedly caused by smoking-related disease. Plaintiff, the estate representative of a woman who had smoked for roughly 50 years, claims her alleged chronic obstructive...
Mar 10, 2025
Parties last week settled a Georgia wrongful death, crash case against a medical waste company and one of its drivers, as jurors deliberated, and after the plaintiff’s attorney requested more than $150 million during the trial's closings.
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Mar 7, 2025
A California state court jury found Starbucks liable on Wednesday for severe burns a Postmates driver suffered while picking up a drive-through order.
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Mar 5, 2025
In the first phase of this bifurcated trial to determine liability, residents of an art colony sue their property owners for toxic chemicals around their houses. These chemicals, known as volatile organic compounds, are carcinogenic substances tha...
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Michael Garcia v. Starbucks Corp.
Mar 5, 2025
In this negligence case against Starbucks, plaintiff claims a barista failed to properly secure one of the hot drinks handed to plaintiff in a to-go carrier handed through the drive-through window, leading to a spill that burned plaintiff. The def...
Mar 4, 2025
A California state court jury has cleared rail giant Union Pacific of all liability for a pedestrian’s leg amputation after he claims he was struck by a train while walking along railroad tracks.
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Mar 3, 2025
In this product liability litigation, plaintiff seeks to recover damages against defendant Monsanto for the non-Hodgkin lymphoma he developed after years of allegedly using the company's Roundup-brand weed killer. Plaintiff contends glyphosate, th...
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Feb 27, 2025
Jurors heard evidence surrounding a 2021 crash that killed a Georgia woman, as a damages trial opened against the driver of the van that caused the collision and the company that employed him.
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