When a jury convicts someone and sentences him or her to prison, we assume the prosecution presented compelling and accurate evidence. We believe that the person was guilty as charged and that he or she deserves the resulting punishment. Unfortunately, several people every year are wrongfully convicted of a crime they did not commit. Pennsylvania’s…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman and Dr. Randy Weiss talk about medical malpractice and which cases are prosecuted successfully.

A Missouri jury has ordered consumer products company Johnson & Johnson to pay $72 million in damages to the family of a 62-year-old woman who died in 2015 from ovarian cancer after using the company’s baby powder and body powder products for some 35 years. The verdict was awarded to the family of Jacqueline Fox.,…

A Macungie, Pa., woman has been awarded $2.39 million in damages by a Lehigh County jury after knee replacement surgery in 2012 left her disabled and confined to a wheelchair. The patient, Betty L. Shiflett, had originally undergone a left knee replacement operation in the early 1990s which by March 2012 needed to be redone,…

This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman and Jeff Gross take questions from callers concerning workers’ compensation.

The family of an excavation vehicle driver who was killed when his articulated hauler ran over him as it backed down a steep hill at a ski resort has been awarded a $1.2 million verdict by a Carbon County, Pa., jury. The driver, Victor Bortz, died in September 2011 when the articulated hauler he was…