You will all too often hear how juries are out of control because they supposedly award undeserved verdicts to injury victims. I disagree – our legal system is the greatest legal system in the world. I do agree that sometimes they “get it wrong”, no more so than in a recent Florida medical malpractice action.
A woman [...]
Silive is reporting the settlement of a lawsuit with the estate of a pedestrian that was hit by a car in 2002. The victim, Lawrence Sinsheimer, was paralyzed after he was struck by a Mercedes-Benz in August of 2002 on Midland Avenue. The driver of the car, Ajay Angras, hit Mr. Sinsheimer with such force that he was knocked [...]
A Staten Island Jury awarded a 61 year old man stricken with polio $22.5 million dollars. The jury reached the verdict in favor of Dominick Tenuto, a former Wall Street executive who contracted polio 30 years ago after his then infant daughter received the polio vaccination produced by Lederle Laboratories. The vaccination given to his daughter contained the live [...]
A Lawyer's Guide to Car Insurance
