Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
After finding last week that the insurance giant acted with malice, oppression and fraud in setting low reimbursement rates for claims submitted by the plaintiff physicians, the jury reconvened Tuesday to decide punitive damages.
Toyota Motor Corp has reached a settlement in a case on appeal in which a Dallas family obtained a $213 million judgment in a car crash case, according to a joint motion the parties filed with the Supreme Court of Texas on Wednesday. The settlement agreement follows the preservation of the nine-figure judgment this summer in Dallas’ Fifth Court of Appeals and a 2018 jury trial that rendered a $242 million verdict for Benjamin and Kristi Reavis and their two young children, Emily and Owen, who suffered permanent brain damage after a 2016 rear-end crash in the family’s Lexus ES 300.
The heated, highly-publicized trial in New York between Match and Tinder founders came to a screeching halt as the parties reached a $441 million settlement, a new regulatory filing by Match Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer Jared Sine revealed. Leading the settlement were New York lawyers from Gibson Dunn, Wachtell and Susman Godfrey.
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A Vegas jury returned a roughly $3 million verdict on Monday in the first trial involving emergency room doctor reimbursement from employer-sponsored health insurance. But TeamHealth's AZA lawyers from Houston expect millions more could be awarded when they meet the defense team for UnitedHealthcare back in court next week for the punitive damages phase of the trial. Natalie Posgate details the case and how TeamHealth’s lawyers won the first phase of the trial.
Prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer Daniel Petrocelli sent an electronic letter late last Wednesday to lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Astroworld Festival tragedy announcing that he now represents rapper Travis Scott and offering to pay the funeral costs of those who died at the Nov. 5 concert in Houston.
“Your client’s offer is declined,” Corpus Christi attorney Bob Hilliard, who represents the family of 9-year-old Ezra Blount, who died at the concert, said in an email response to Petrocelli.
Three weeks after 10 people died and hundreds of others were injured at the Astroworld Festival tragedy, the number of lawsuits, plaintiffs and named defendants continues to mount. The demand for damages now tops $3 billion and the lawyer headcount involved in the litigation exceeds six dozen, including some of the most prominent and powerful law firms in Texas. But there are big questions: about insurance coverage, possible bankruptcy and questionable defenses.
A Las Vegas jury began deliberating Wednesday morning over whether to order UnitedHealthcare to pay a physician staffing firm millions. The impending verdict will decide the fate of the first case to go to trial involving the compensation of emergency room doctors through commercial health insurance plans provided by employers.
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