J&J’s Ethicon Inc. Slammed With $41 Million Verdict In Pelvic Mesh Case
A Philadelphia jury slammed Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc. with a $41 million verdict on Thursday, Jan. 31 after finding that defects in a mesh implant manufactured by the company left a woman with permanent injuries after the product eroded through her pelvis. This verdict is the latest in...
Continue ReadingFraternity Hazing and University Liability
A fraternity ritual, also known as hazing, begins around 9 pm on February 2, 2017, at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State University. At approximately 10:45 pm, after being forced to consume large amounts of alcohol, an intoxicated pledge, Timothy Piazza, falls down the basement steps at his...
Continue ReadingContributory Negligence in Alabama
Laws can be complex and difficult to understand. Sometimes they make sense, and sometimes they do not. One confusing concept for a party that has been injured in Alabama is a legal theory called pure contributory negligence. In Alabama an injured person can recover money for their injuries from the...
Continue ReadingSerra Nissan General Manager Randy Visser Enters Plea Deal in Criminal Conspiracy Case
Serra Nissan General Manager Randy Visser has entered a guilty plea to criminal conspiracy charges involving wrongdoing at Serra Nissan. Visser was accused of defrauding Nissan North America by falsifying sales reports in a scheme to collect incentive bonuses from the carmaker. Maximum punishment for the federal crime is up...
Continue ReadingSerra Nissan Fraud Investigation-Former Managers Guilty of Conspiracy
Former Serra Nissan sales manager Abdul Islam Mughal was given a two and a half year prison sentence for his role in the Serra Nissan fraud case. Seven other former employees of Serra Nissan pled guilty in federal court in Birmingham to a variety of fraud charges stemming from a...
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