The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Here’s a story on a $ 300 million punitive damages award. As explained by the Mass Tort Litigation Blog: "The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has awarded $300 million in punitive damages to plaintiffs bringing tort claims against Syria and Iran in connection with their alleged role in a 2006 suicide bombing attack in Israel; the recovering plaintiffs were all U.S. citizens." See the whole post for links and more.
A $1 billion compensatory damages verdict last week seems to be another signal of significant unhappiness among the people who are serving on juries. An April 23, 2018 article in the NYT provides more
Yesterday’s punitive damages verdict against J&J arrived after interesting questions from the jury to the court. One wonders how J&J will account for the questions on a going forward basis. As reporte
The last 10 days have been notably adverse for product liability defendants. One big defense side loss arrived through the California Supreme Court’s December 1, 2016 opinion in two consolidated cases