The estate of a western Pennsylvania man who died in 2012 from workplace exposure to asbestos products has been awarded a $1.085 million verdict by an eastern district U.S. District Court jury. The man, Valent Rabovsky, who was 86 when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2009, had worked from 1951 to 1986 as a…

The family of a 27-year-old Philadelphia man who was killed when he was struck by a car as he rode his motorcycle on Belmont Avenue in April 2013 has been awarded a $3.1 million verdict by a Philadelphia jury. Calvin M. Wilson Jr., the father of two young children ages 6 and 3, was riding…

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,…

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…

The estate of a New Jersey police officer who was killed in 2010 when the vehicle he was driving was struck by a car being operated by a drunken driver has been awarded a $10.1 million verdict by a N.J. jury. In its decision after an eight-day trial, the jury awarded $10.1 million in damages…