NEW YORK - Insurance brokerage giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. (MMC) announced Nov. 13 that it had reached an agreement for $400 million to settle a consolidated class action filed in 2004 over alleged securities law violations made in connection with an alleged illegal bid-rigging scheme (In re Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. Securities […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - After reviewing a challenge to an arbitrator appointed by the government of Canada in a dispute pending in the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the deputy secretary-general of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Oct. 14 ruled that an arbitrator must choose between acting as an arbitrator in […]
GADSDEN, Ala. - A jury in Alabama returned an $8.5 million verdict on Oct. 14 for a woman who was seriously injured in a rollover accident while she was a passenger in a vehicle designed by Ford Motor Co. (Latoya Duckett v. Ford Motor Co., No. CV-05-1120-WHR, Ala. Cir., Etowah Co.).
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PHILADELPHIA - An Illinois woman who was awarded $6.3 million by a Pennsylvania state court jury on Nov. 20 will receive an additional $28 million in punitive damages, the jury decided Nov. 23, while the manufacturers of the drugs were ordered to pay $75 million to another Illinois woman, whose trial ended in late October […]
PHILADELPHIA - A plan administrator’s denial of benefits to a claimant with soft tissue injuries arising from an automobile accident was reasonable, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Nov. 9 in an unpublished decision. The appeals court said the insurer reasonably relied on medical reviews finding that the claimant was not disabled (Stephanie […]
STATESBORO, Ga. - A forensic pathologist is qualified to opine that a car accident victim’s injuries would not have prevented him from being conscious before he died, and his opinion is reliably based on his experience, a federal judge in Georgia held Oct. 22 (Melisa H. Byrd, et al. v. Wal-Mart Transportation, et al., No. […]
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota state court judge held Oct. 20 that the claims of nine representative plaintiffs in that state’s consolidated Medtronic Inc. Sprint Fidelis implantable defibrillator leads litigation are preempted by federal law (In Re: Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Lead Products State Court Litigation, No. 27-CV-07-22446, Minn. Dist., Hennepin Co.).
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PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania state court jury on Nov. 20 awarded $6.3 million in compensatory damages to an Illinois woman after finding that her use of Wyeth’s Premarin and Prempro and Pharmacia & Upjohn’s Provera for nearly 11 years was a proximate cause of her development of breast cancer (Donna Kendall v. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc., […]
TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas Supreme Court on Oct. 30 affirmed in part a lower court decision that a local municipality’s prohibition on large commercial wind farms is lawful and not preempted by federal law (Roger Zimmerman, et al., v. Board of County Commissioners of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, No. 98,487, Kan. Sup.; 2009 Kan. 1073).
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VICKSBURG, Miss. - For the first time in Mississippi, a jury found in favor of a plaintiff in a silicosis case when a former foundry worker won a judgment on Nov. 9 against a sand supplier that failed to warn him of the dangers of working with its sand (Robert Eastman v. Mississippi Valley Silica […]