Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

On Wednesday, February 27, following a three-week trial, a Florida jury hit R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc. with $25 million in punitive damages for the victim's cigarette addiction and fatal lung cancer and awarded…

On March 7, a federal jury in Miami ordered Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. to pay $3.38 million to the estate of a passenger who died of cardiac arrest in 2016, while on board an Alaskan cruise.

According to court records…

A Trinidad and Tobago resident survived a heart attack onboard NCL's Norwegian Pearl vessel in 2016; however, his lawyers said he suffered unnecessary additional damages since he was kept on the ship for two days after the incident…

Monmouth Jury recently awarded $3.2M to a slip and fall victim who suffered a hip injury after slipping on an icy walkway at the Jackson Premium Outlets.

According to the case records, the defendants had ignored a leaky…

A Cook County jury ordered Chicago's Amita Health Saint Hospital to pay $23.6 million to a 4-year-old who suffered brain damage during birth as the doctors failed to perform a cesarean section quickly enough to deliver her in a healthy…

An Edison High School graduate who suffered injuries in a drag racing accident was awarded $39 million by a Middlesex County jury.

In July 2012, the plaintiff was riding a motorcycle on Saw Mill Road in Heller Industrial…

A Florida woman was awarded $4 million in a lawsuit filed against United Airlines over allegations that a flight attendant while trying to help her get seated dropped her and injured her shoulder.

An attorney who…

A Washington jury awarded about $123 million to the victims and families of a 2015 duck boat crash in Seattle, in which five college students were killed and more than 60 people were injured.

In 2015, the Branson-based…

On Thursday, August 29, a jury awarded $7.5 million to the mother of a victim who was killed in an Aug. 10, 2016, crash.

According to the court documents, the plaintiff was driving his motorcycle on Route 12 when the defendant…

On Sept. 6, 2019, the plaintiff who was hit in the crosswalk by a New Jersey Transit bus, won $12.75 million.

Plaintiff lived in Springfield, Union County and was hit by a New Jersey Transit bus, in the crosswalk at the…