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| $1.2M Awarded in American Furniture Injury Lawsuit |  | $1.2 million has been awarded to a woman who was injured when she fell at an American Furniture Warehouse store. A jury from Centennial, Colorado deliberated for five days and assigned 67 percent of the liability to American Furniture and 33 percent to the plaintiff. The store had claimed that the area where the woman fell was not a walkway and denied the negligence claim. The attorney for the plaintiff argued the area was publicly accessible and was not marked.
Also Svaldi, Denver Post 04/09/2016    | | Read Article: Denver Post |
| U-Va. Student Deposed in Lawsuit Against Rolling Stone | | A former student from the University of Virginia has been deposed in a lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine. The girl claimed to be the victim of a fraternity gang-rape at the university which became the subject of an article released in Rolling Stone. The lawsuit was filed over the magazine's discredited account of the alleged sexual assault at the university back in 2014. A University of Virginia associate dean filed the lawsuit and alleged that the magazine portrayed her as "callous and indifferent to" the sexually abused student's claims. The article was retracted in 2015 by Rolling Stone after the Columbia Journalism School revealed that it contained numerous flaws.
T. Rees Shapiro, The Washington Post 04/07/2016 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Fort Worth School District Settled with Chesapeake for $1M | | The Fort Worth school district settled its lawsuit with Chesapeake Energy over natural gas royalties for $1 million, according to documents released Monday after the TX AG decided that the information is public. The AG's office ordered the district to release details of the out-of-court settlement despite efforts by Chesapeake to keep it private through a confidentiality agreement signed by both parties in December. In its lawsuit filed in 2014, the district accused Chesapeake of cheating it out of an unspecified amount of money from royalty payments by subtracting unacceptable post-production costs. The district's lawsuit included at least 30 leases covering at least 1,000 acres.
MAX B. BAKER, Star Telegram 04/12/2016 | | Read Article: Star Telegram |
| Johnson & Johnson Has a Baby Powder Problem | | More than 1,000 women and their families are suing J&J and Imerys, claiming the companies have known of the association with ovarian cancer for years and failed to warn them. The next trial is scheduled to begin on April 11 in a St. Louis circuit court. The odds of a woman in the U.S. falling ill with ovarian cancer are 1 in 70. Talc use is associated with worse odds, 1 in 53, according to those epidemiological studies. The risks seem to be higher for invasive serious cancer.
Susan Berfield, Jef Feeley, and Margaret Cronin Fisk, Bloomberg 04/12/2016 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
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