Ahrens v. Philip Morris
Jan 25, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Ina Ahrens claims Philip Morris concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related disease of Karl Ahrens.
Jan 21, 2016
Attorneys drew battle lines over the reasons behind a long-time smoker’s respiratory disease as trial opened last week in a suit by his widow against the makers of the cigarettes her husband smoked.
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Jan 21, 2016
Experts are often the most crucial witnesses in a trial: their testimony, and how they present it to a jury, can turn a verdict. In this series, CVN analyzes the nation’s most important experts, their testimony, and their impact on a trial’s verdi...
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Jan 21, 2016
A woman left scarred by an allergic skin reaction to an antibiotic accused her doctor of negligence at a trial that began Wednesday, claiming he failed to take an adequate medical history before prescribing the powerful drug Bactrim to treat her a...
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Jenny Hyoung v. Kyoung Yoo MD
Jan 20, 2016
A California state court jury rejected a womans medical malpractice lawsuit claiming her physician was negligent for treating her acne with a powerful antibiotic that caused a severe allergic reaction which left her with scarring on over 30 perce...
Jan 15, 2016
In this tobacco litigation proceeding, Doris Ewing claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, leading to the smoking-related illness of James Ewing.
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Jan 14, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Janice Rounds claims defendant tobacco companies concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused a smoking-related disease in Terrance Rounds.
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Jan 14, 2016
Whether the catastrophic brain damage an Alpharetta woman suffered during a lung procedure was reasonably preventable became the key question presented to jurors as trial began against the anesthesiologists involved in the surgery.
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Reasons Behind Nurse's Smoking Take Center Stage as Trial Against Tobacco Companies Opens
Jan 13, 2016
Attorneys debated what drove a Florida nurse to smoke up to three packs of cigarettes a day for more than 30 years, before she developed lung cancer and respiratory disease, as trial opened this week in her suit against the nation’s two largest to...
Jan 11, 2016
In this tobacco litigation trial, Mary Howles is suing defendant tobacco companies, claiming they concealed the dangers of cigarettes, which caused a smoking-related disease.
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Dec 28, 2015
A California state court jury has awarded $216,450 to the mother of a mentally ill 20-year-old who died after overdosing on narcotic pain medication provided to him by a former psychiatric nurse with whom he had maintained a sexual relationship.
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Dec 23, 2015
Jurors awarded $35 million to the widower of an airline worker after finding the nation’s two largest cigarette manufacturers responsible for her fatal lung cancer.
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