Jeff Kuntz nets a $35 Million Verdict
May 7, 2018After a nine day trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, a nine-member jury returned a $35 million verdict in favor of a northwest Indiana couple, Barbara and Anton Kaiser, for the injuries Barbara incurred from a Johnson & Johnson product, the Prolift transvaginal mesh. The jurors found that ...
Continue ReadingWRONGFUL DEATH AWARD – $6.7 MILLION
October 19, 2015At the conclusion of trial, Jon Kieffer, Vanessa Gross, and Adam Davis obtained a $6,723,021.00 damages award on behalf of the family of a young woman who had been killed in a two-vehicle collision. The case was filed by the surviving husband on behalf of himself and their three young children. The defendants in the ...
Continue ReadingCLIENT WINS $5.7 MILLION IN TVT-ABBREVO VERDICT
March 6, 2015A Bakersfield, Calif. jury returned a verdict awarding plaintiff Coleen M. Perry a total of $5.7 Million for damages as a result of a TVT-Abbrevo pelvic mesh sling device, manufactured by Ethicon, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. According to court documents, the TVT-Abbrevo mid-urethral sling device, used to treat urinary incontinence had degraded and ...
Continue Reading$590.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT IN PRIVATE EQUITY ANTITRUST CASE
September 8, 2014Working with several law firms nationwide, Ty Hudson and other Wagstaff & Cartmell attorneys played a pivotal role in securing a $590 million combined class action settlement, contingent on federal court approval, of antitrust claims against seven private equity firms, including Bain Capital, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs, K.K.R., Silver Lake, and TPG. The plaintiffs – former shareholders of ...
Continue Reading$3.27 MILLION BELLWETHER VERDICT IN TV MESH SLING TRIAL
September 5, 2014A federal jury in Charleston, West Virginia, returned a $3.27 million verdict in favor of plaintiff Jo Huskey and her husband for damages Huskey sustained from a TVT-O pelvic mesh sling device, manufactured by Ethicon, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The case was a bellwether trial, and the first to reach a verdict, in ...
Continue Reading$1.2 MILLION JURY VERDICT IN TEXAS TV MESH TRIAL
April 10, 2014After a two-and-a-half-week trial led by Tom Cartmell and Rich Freese from Birmingham, Alabama, a 12-person jury in Dallas County, Texas, awarded a woman $1.2 million for injuries caused by a TVT-O sling manufactured by Ethicon, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. The jury found that that the TVT-O device, a medical device indicated for the treatment ...
Continue ReadingCONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT – GADOLINIUM INDUCED NSF
September 9, 2013Christopher Schnieders settled a case on behalf of a 35-year-old man with renal impairment against a manufacturer of gadolinium for a confidential amount. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, alleged that the defendant manufacturer failed to warn doctors of the toxic nature of gadolinium when used in a patient ...
Continue ReadingCONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT – WRONGFUL DEATH FROM ZIP LINE FALL
July 11, 2013Brandon Henry and other attorneys settled a wrongful death case for a confidential amount arising from the death of a 39-year-old woman who fell from a zip line. The zip line was constructed on private property by the property owner and others. Because one of the property owner’s sons, who was separately insured, assisted in the construction ...
Continue Reading$20.25 MILLION CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT IN RE POTASH ANTITRUST LITIGATION (N.D. ILL.)
June 12, 2013Wagstaff & Cartmell represented a class of indirect purchasers, mostly farmers and agribusinesses. Our trial attorneys obtained a class action settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, in the total amount of $20.25 million from the major North American and foreign producers of potash fertilizer. The case alleged that the ...
Continue ReadingSETTLEMENT CELL PHONE USE WHILE DRIVING
March 14, 2013Attorney Brian Madden and others at Wagstaff & Cartmell settled a personal injury case for a confidential amount in which it was alleged that a driver lost control of his vehicle while accepting a cell phone call. The driver left the roadway and struck three pedestrians, injuring one and killing two. The negligent driver was allegedly not working ...
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