Latest jury verdicts, settlements, and legal outcome analysis
Taylor Wilson sued Olive Cleveland Partners, LLC after she slipped and fell on snow and ice in a warehouse parking lot in South Bend, Indiana. The jury assigned 45% fault to Wilson, 45% to Olive Cleveland Partners, and 10% to non-party snow removal contractor Pemberton, LLC. The jury determined total damages and entered a verdict in Wilson's favor against Olive Cleveland Partners, LLC.
A Miami-Dade County jury awarded $270,000 to Kenneth Dominguez after finding that Manon N. Foisy was solely negligent in a February 2022 motor vehicle collision at the intersection of Biscayne Boulevard and South 191st Street in Aventura, Florida. The jury found that Dominguez sustained permanent injuries and awarded damages for past and future medical expenses as well as pain and suffering.
A Buncombe County landlord sought to remove a tenant from his rental property after alleging the tenant threatened his father's life and caused extensive damage inside the home, including a busted door casing, torn-off trim, and sledgehammer holes through the ceiling and sheetrock. Filed under North Carolina's summary ejectment statute for criminal activity violations, the case went before a jury, which sided with the landlord on both possession and damages, awarding him $5,000.
A former Assistant Controller at a California gas station property company sued his employer after being terminated, alleging age discrimination and retaliation for reporting illegal payroll practices to state labor authorities. Though a San Bernardino County jury found he had disclosed legitimate payroll violations to a government agency and had reasonable cause to believe the law had been broken, it ultimately found his disclosure was not a contributing factor in his termination, resulting in a defense verdict on his employment claims. The jury did side with him on the company's separate breach of contract cross-complaint, and the Court awarded him over $300,000 in attorney's fees as the prevailing party on that claim.
A jury in the Eastern District of Texas ruled that AT&T Corp., AT&T Mobility LLC, AT&T Mobility II LLC and AT&T Services Inc. did not infringe a patent held by Daingean Technologies Ltd. covering wireless communication technology tied to 4G and 5G network standards. The verdict, delivered after a trial before Judge Rodney Gilstrap, cleared AT&T of liability on the sole claim submitted to the jury, and the Court later entered judgment naming AT&T the prevailing party and directing it to recover its costs from Daingean.
A Marion County jury awarded $450,000 to a patient who sued her physician for medical negligence over care provided between 2017 and 2019. The court later capped the physician's personal liability at $400,000 under the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act, with the remaining $50,000 to be paid by the Indiana Patients Compensation Fund.
A California supplier sued a New York-based online discount retailer for over $125,000 in unpaid invoices, claiming it delivered goods and services that were never paid for. The retailer countersued, alleging the supplier misrepresented where its inventory was located and routinely shipped orders late, damaging its reputation with customers. After trial, the jury found that while the retailer had indeed requested the goods and services, the supplier failed to prove it actually delivered them as required. The jury also found the supplier breached the parties' Master Supplier Agreement and that the retailer was entitled to liquidated damages, though it declined to specify a dollar amount, instead writing in "Atty Fees for Defense." The Court entered judgment for the retailer on all claims, with no money judgment awarded to either side, and granted the retailer the right to pursue a motion for attorney's fees and costs.
A California jury found entirely in favor of the defense in a lawsuit brought by an Oklahoma woman who suffered severe facial injuries after tripping over a raised door threshold at a Barstow hotel. The Plaintiff, who used a cane, argued that the 1.25-inch, unbeveled metal threshold at the room's exit constituted an unlawful architectural barrier under the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Following a multi-week trial, the jury rejected both the civil rights and premises liability claims, assigning 100 percent comparative negligence to the Plaintiff and awarding zero damages.
A Pennsylvania jury found that Keystone Integrated Care, LLC, Keystone Group of Companies, LLC, and Thomas Perko wrongly stripped Russell Cersosimo, Jr. and his father, Russell Cersosimo, Sr., of their ownership interest in a medical marijuana business built around a state dispensary permit. The jury awarded $1,962,500 in compensatory damages against all three Defendants and added $2,636,500 in punitive damages against Keystone Integrated Care, LLC alone.
