Thursday, 19 September 2019 / Published in Medical Malpractice
A judge in Ohio has cleared the way for the first federal trial against some of the nation’s top pharmaceutical firms over their role in the opioid epidemic, rejecting key defenses the companies had offered in a bid to dismiss claims that they had caused the crisis. In a September 3 ruling, U.S. District Judge
Monday, 09 September 2019 / Published in Car Accidents, Injuries, Law, Truck Accidents
A Texas personal injury firm announced that it had reached an unprecedented $140 million settlement in the case of a driver who was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2017 collision with an 18-wheel truck. According to the firm Goudarzi & Young, the settlement, reached on behalf of a 39-year-old driver, was the largest
Wednesday, 07 August 2019 / Published in Injuries, Law
Ohio law requires plaintiffs to present expert testimony linking their alleged asbestos-related injuries to exposure to specific products, the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled. The July 22 Delaware ruling, came after the Ohio high court in Schwartz v. Honeywell International Inc.  rejected an expert’s so-called cumulative exposure theory, which claimed that “each and every” contact
Sunday, 21 July 2019 / Published in Car Accidents, Injuries, Law
Work injury claim
In a June 25, 2019 opinion, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a Department of Transportation (“DelDOT”) employee was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits because he was acting within the scope of his employment when he was injured in a car accident while returning to work outside of his normal hours. The ruling found that
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