Wrongful
Death
Date: 09-12-2009
Case Style: Semsa Selimanovic v. Daniel P. Finney Jr.
Court: Circuit Court, St. Louis County, Missouri
Plaintiff's Attorney: Ted F. Frapolli
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: Semsa Selimanovic sued Daniel P. Finney,
Jr. on a legal malpractice theory claiming that defendant
allowed the statute of limitations to run on her wrongful
death claim for the death of her husband.
The defenses asserted by Defendant are not available.
Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $2 million.
Product Liability
Date: 09-11-2009
Case Style: Cruz v. Michelin North America Inc.
Case Number: 2007-cv-141-A
Judge: Migdalia Lopez
Court: 197th Judicial District Court, Willacy County, Texas
Plaintiff's Attorney: Mikal Watts, Watts Guerra Craft, LLP, San Antonio, Texas
Description: Jesus Guzman, age 12, sustained a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed as a result of a rollover accident of the Ford F-250 truck in which he was a passenger sued Michelin North America on a products liability theory claiming the Goodrich tire on the truck that failed was defective and unreasonably dangerous. Plaintiff claimed that the tread separated from the tire causing the truck to swerve into oncoming traffic where it collided with an SUV killing all six of the passengers in that vehicle. Plaintiff further claimed that the tire was defective because the machinery at the plant where the tire was manufactured was damaged by water that leaked on the equipment as a result of a hole in the roof. The accident occurred outside Matamoros, Mexico on New Year's Eve 2006.
Michelin claimed that the truck's bumper scraped off the top of the tire.
Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $11.96 million.
Medical Malpractice
Date: 08-29-2009
Case Style: Paris Campen v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Court: Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California
Plaintiff's Attorney: Diane Corwin, San Mateo, California
and John Denove, Cheong, Denove, Rowell & Bennett,
Los Angeles, California
Description: The parent of Paris Campen, age 5, sued Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on a medical negligence theory (medical malpractice) claiming that the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit negligently failed to diagnose a meningitis infection in 2005 and, as a direct result, Paris suffered brain damage.
The defenses asserted by defendant are not available.
Outcome: Plaintiffs' verdict for $7.3 million. |
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