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By Charles Toutant | Colleen Murphy | October 27, 2023
The estate of an electrician who died after a 30-foot fall in the workplace received payment of a $5 million settlement in a Bergen County wrongful death suit, Roscitt v. Chefler Foods, on Oct. 15.
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By Marianna Wharry | October 26, 2023
The high court's decision denied the plaintiffs' contention that state's dram-shop liability statute violated a provision of its constitution that limits legislators from passing laws that could abrogate any right to bring a legal action before Arizona's statehood in 1912.
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By Cedra Mayfield | October 26, 2023
"'[L]oading' the decedent into the back of the patrol car was inherently a part of the detention process because the decedent could not have been detained inside the patrol car without having been 'loaded' inside it by the deputies," read the Supreme Court of Georgia reversal.
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By Michael A. Mora | October 20, 2023
"It is the highest hourly rate of any plaintiff lawyer in the entire state of Florida for tobacco litigation," the attorney said.
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By Alex Anteau | October 19, 2023
Each party contends the other made a big mistake in the filing process—the question is whose error sticks.
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By Cedra Mayfield | October 18, 2023
"The foreperson and several other jurors told us that they had been 10 seconds away from submitting the verdict that they had already agreed upon," said Jeb Butler of Butler Khan. "The verdict was for the [plaintiff's] family in the amount of $23 million, with 75% of the fault placed on [the defendant] and 25% on [the plaintiff]."
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By Riley Brennan | October 17, 2023
This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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By Allison Dunn | October 12, 2023
While no specific defect was identified in the complaint, it alleges that the plane suffered "a sudden and catastrophic mechanical failure" during its normal flight, "causing the aircraft not to perform as safely as an ordinary consumer would have expected it to perform during its flight on October 11, 2021."
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By ALM Staff | October 10, 2023
This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | October 9, 2023
"Appellants' arguments that Texas law, not federal bankruptcy law, controls are incorrect. We find the pre-petition payment doesn't affect the debtor's equitable interest in them at the time the petition was filed," wrote Fifth Circuit Judge Stephen A. Higginson.
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