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| Dallas Jury Orders Choctaw Nation to Pay $11M in 2013 Casino Bus Crash |  | A Dallas County jury has ordered the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to pay $11 million to the families of two women from Fort Worth and North Richland Hills who were killed in 2013 when a chartered bus crashed on the way to a casino. The families of Paula Hahn, 69, of Fort Worth and Alice Stanley, 83, of North Richland Hills are to get $6 million and $4.9 million in the suit, respectively.
MONICA S. NAGY, Star Telegram 05/03/2016    | | Read Article: Star Telegram |
| J&J Hit Again in a Talcum Powder Lawsuit | | A jury in St. Louis has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $55 million to a South Dakota woman who claimed the company's talcum powder caused her to develop ovarian cancer. Court records show the jury returned the verdict in favor of plaintiff Gloria Ristesund on Monday. Ristesund, 62, said she used Johnson's baby powder for decades and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011.
CBS/AP, CBS - New York Local 05/03/2016 | | Read Article: CBS - New York Local |
| Jury Finds LA Liable for Man's Death, Awards $23.7M | | A jury has ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $23.7 million to the family of a scientist killed in a traffic accident three years ago. Attorneys for Thomas Guilmette's widow and son say jurors made the award Monday after finding the city 95 percent liable for his death. A lawsuit alleged the city had received complaints for years that the intersection was dangerous but did nothing to make it safer until after Guilmette died.
Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 05/03/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Insurers Sue NFL for Access to Concussion-Related Documents | | Insurers are suing the National Football League to obtain 'relevant factual information,' such as depositions of league officials and third-party physicians, to help them build defenses against the uncapped class action settlement approved by a federal appeals court last month.
Stephanie Goldberg, Business Insurance 05/03/2016 | | Read Article: Business Insurance |
| J&J Faces 1,000 More Talc-Cancer Suits After Verdict Loss | | Johnson & Johnson must pay $55 million to a 62-year-old South Dakota woman who blamed her ovarian cancer on the company's talcum powder in the second such trial loss this year. J&J is accused in more than 1,000 lawsuits in state and federal courts of ignoring studies linking its Shower-to-Shower product and Johnson's Baby Powder to ovarian cancer. Women contend the company knew the risk and failed to warn customers.
Margaret Cronin Fisk, Tim Bross and Jef Feeley , Bloomberg 05/03/2016 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
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