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On June 8, 2013, Plaintiff Gary Leonard was helping his sister Pamela Leonard by working in her food concession truck at the Leelanau Food and Wine Festival. Pamela had purchased the truck five years previously at a fraction of its value through eBay...

On Dec. 4, 2013, plaintiff Barry Davis was heading eastbound in his 2007 Ford Mustang on W. Indiantown Road, in Jupiter, FL, when he was struck on the driver's side by a 2005 Kubota tractor pulling a bush hog (large lawn mower) operated by Dale A...

Plaintiff alleged injury due to negligent security by the hotel and the security company. Defendants denied liability maintaining that there was no duty to protect the plaintiff from criminal acts of third parties, that the security provided was adequate...

On Nov. 27, 2005, minor E.B.B., then a three-month-old infant, was brought to South Jersey Regional Medical Center by his mother Sabrina Bonilla. Bonilla told emergency room physician Dominic Diorio, M.D., that E.B.B. could not straighten his right leg...

On Dec. 12, 2012, at about 7:14 a.m., plaintiffs, 17-year-old Regina Monzon and her younger brother, 15-year-old James Monzon, were walking to Fairview Jr. High School, crossing Central Valley 23 Road N.E. in a marked crosswalk near N.E. Conifer Drive...

Plaintiff underwent a successful left hip replacement at defendant hospital. On postoperative day two, patient fractured her left hip when she turned to use bathroom commode. It was plaintiff's first time using a commode following the hip replacement...

Last year, hundreds of attorneys across the nation submitted cases to be included in the LexisNexis Jury Verdict and Settlement database. Some of the cases were submitted directly here at the Litigators’ Verdict & Settlement Exchange. Other...

On Dec. 2, 2012, at around 2:30 a.m., a vehicle being operated by defendant Lanessa Riobe rear-ended a vehicle in which Eliezer Maldonado, Sr., (34-year-old father-husband) Deborah Maldonado (35-year-old mother-wife), Eliezer Maldonado, Jr., (12-year...

On Dec. 18, 2006, Vincent Smith underwent the surgical removal of hardware that had been placed in his body during a prior orthopedic surgery. The surgery was performed at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, IN. After the surgery...

On December 4, 2013, plaintiff Barry Davis was heading eastbound in his 2007 Ford Mustang on W. Indiantown Road, in Jupiter, FL, when he was struck on the driver’s side by a 2005 Kubota tractor pulling a bushog (large lawn mower) operated by Dale A. Vannelli...

Last year, hundreds of attorneys across the nation submitted cases to be included in the LexisNexis Jury Verdict and Settlement database. Some of the cases were submitted directly here at the Litigators’ Verdict & Settlement Exchange. Other...

On April 12, 2011, 37-year-old plaintiff Andreas Bakopoulos was working as a diesel mechanic and pulling on a pipe wrench when he slipped on diesel fuel at Union Pacific Railroad Company's Global One Yard facility located in Chicago, IL. Plaintiff...

On Aug. 18, 2013, Vemma Nutrition Company trainers Yosh Kamine and Jacob Kamine hosted a promotional sales event at their residence on Jefferson Avenue. Nineteen-year-old Michaela Smith had been hired by Vemma to sell its products, including energy drinks...

Plaintiffs, student-athletes, filed separate class actions in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, District of Minnesota, Eastern District of Louisiana, and District of New Jersey challenging the National Collegiate...

In March of 2015, Amber Rae Johnson was hired by Stones River Medical Group, P.C., after Dr. Mark Josovitz had allegedly asked Johnson to come work at Stones River as an assistant office manager. Johnson said that during her first month of employment...

Alleged unpaid overtime in connection with unpaid lunch breaks. Plaintiff claimed she was required to work through her 30 minute unpaid lunch breaks and therefore was owed approximately 2.5 hours per week in unpaid overtime. Defendants denied the allegations...

This evening the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to overturn a lower district court's decision regarding President Trump's highly publicized Executive Order concerning immigration and travel in the U.S. and popularized in the media as...

On March 18, 2013, Marjorie Ashmore filed a medical malpractice action against Hartford Hospital in the Connecticut Superior Court for the Judicial District of Waterbury. Ashmore, who brought the action as the administratrix of the estate of her deceased...

On Nov. 1, 2013, plaintiffs Alfred Sanchez, 48, a construction worker, and Ana Maria Sanchez, 45, a part-time food service employee, were rear-ended while traveling eastbound on Interstate 10 near Yucaipa Blvd., located in Yucaipa, CA. The Sanchez vehicle...

According to an article broken today by our colleagues at Law360, President Donald Trump's sister, a federal appellate judge with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, has decided to stop hearing cases. https://www.law360.com/articles/888127/3rd-circ...

On May 14, 2008, Tiffani D. Hurst gave birth to M.A.H. in Sunrise Hospital in Clark County, NV. M.A.H. was premature (born at 6 1/2 months gestation), and received medical care from neonatologist Martin Blahnick, M.D. and Ali Piroozi, M.D. until she was...

On July 24, 2013, Tanya M. Fuller, an employee of Northeast Commercial Sharpening, injured her right hand and wrist while retrieving a Hobart meat slicer. Northeast Commercial Sharpening had contracted with Reliant Easton Holdings, LLC, to service a meat...

During his first week in office, President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to crack down on immigration into the United States. A broad executive order was signed late in the afternoon on Friday, Jan. 28, 2017. The order barred Syrian refugees...

On Jan. 27, 2012, defendant Omega Psi Phi, Omicron Kappa Chapter, hosted a fraternity party at their house off of the campus of Missouri State University. Fraternity members, including chapter president Emmanuel Chapman and Kelvin Jones, and some party...

Access Community Health Network operated a healthcare facility in Chicago, IL, that received grant money from the United States Public Healthcare Service. On Sept. 8, 2011, 15 day old P.G. presented to Access and Dr. Pamela L. Roper with a history of...