NATIONAL – Jurors hit Lasko Products, Inc., with a $13.5 million verdict after a faulty fan motor ignited a blaze in 2005 that killed a 7-year-old boy. Lasko is the largest fan manufacturer in the United States. They discovered a defect in the China-made fan motors in 1999 and developed corrective technology in 2004. The…
HERNANDO COUNTY – According to The St. Petersburg Times – “In what local court observers are calling one of the largest verdicts they can recall, a Hernando County [FL] jury on Wednesday awarded more than $330 million in civil damages to Angela Stone, whose 13-year-old daughter, Shelby Taylor Hagman, was killed in 2007 by a…
PASCO COUNTY – According to the Tampa Tribune, “A jury deliberated for three hours Monday before finding the Pasco County school district negligent in a 2006 crash that severely injured a 16-year-old boy. The jury awarded the student, now 19, and his parents, $1.625 million in damages, which his mother has said she will use…
ORLANDO – On Thursday a jury awarded a $6.33 million medical malpractice verdict in favor of a Deltona woman who is now in a permanent vegetative state following a heart attack five years ago. Lawyers said the woman had complained to her primary care physician of chest pains, fatigue, shortness of breath, dizziness and an…
A Home Depot customer and his wife were awarded $1.5 million by a jury in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store. The injured customer said that a pallet of plywood fell on him from a forklift at a Home Depot store, knocking him down and causing neck and spine injuries. The…
PASCO COUNTY – A jury awarded $750,000 each to the parents of a 21-year-old who was strangled to death in a Land O’ Lakes restaurant’s parking lot. Jurors this evening decided that Brickman Management Company Inc. and B&B Cash Grocery Stores Inc. were negligent for not providing security on the morning of the 21-year-olds death….
A Florida jury awarded a man $4.8 million in a Florida auto accident lawsuit. The injured man was hurt in a 2003 car accident when a commercial drug company’s van rear-ended his car. As a result of this accident trauma, it left the man with serious neck and back injuries. The injured man required extensive…
A 33 year old woman was recently awarded $3.2 million in damages for injuries she suffered in 2006 when a 350-lb. stack of eight foot countertops fell on her in one of IKEA’s stores. The plaintiff suffered four fractures of her pelvis and alleged permanent injuries. It sounds as though liability against IKEA was pretty…