Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Just weeks after a Harris County jury held Hilton 90% liable in the sexual assault of a Cleveland woman, the hotel chain settled with the victim for an undisclosed sum. By settling, experts say, Hilton is hoping the horrific details presented in court will "quietly go away."
The plaintiff, who was injured in 2016 while putting a bariatric patient into a wheelchair, was represented by a team of lawyers at Houston firm Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Agosto, Aziz & Stogner.
The verdict by a federal jury in Florida is the largest to date in an ongoing wave of suits alleging that 3M sold the U.S. government faulty protective equipment, resulting in hearing damage to thousands of military personnel.
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.
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