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Federal Government Identifies Up to 17% Lung Cancer Increase.
On May 17, 2010, Jersey City, N.J. residents filed suit in New Jersey State Court, Hudson County, against defendants Honeywell International of New Jersey and PPG Industries of Pennsylvania for dumping and failing to clean up cancer-causing hexavalent chromium waste in their neighborhoods.
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Connie Barton and Donna Kendall have something in common: they both stood up to one of the largest and most powerful drug companies in court — and won. Monday, November 23, 2009, in Philadelphia, PA, these two verdicts against Wyeth (a division of Pfizer) over its hormone therapy drugs (Premarin and Prempro) were released. Breast cancer survivors are winning the war against hormone replacement therapy (HRT) makers Wyeth and Pfizer. Janet, Jenner & Suggs attorney Robert K. Jenner is co-counsel in the cases involving Connie Barton, Peoria, IL, Mary Daniels, Hot Springs, AK, and Diane Wisneski, of Potomac, MD.
For Arlene Rowatt, a grandmother of eight, yesterday’s verdict in the Wyeth hormone replacement therapy suit is a sweet victory.
A Washington, D.C. Superior Court jury ordered the District government yesterday to pay $24.2 million to a brain-damaged 7-year-old girl whose heart stopped after she received poor treatment at D.C. General Hospital.
District attorneys plan to appeal the amount of the award, which includes $8 million for Lynteakia Beal’s future care and $16 million for her pain and suffering.
Thanks to a $15.5 million jury award, Minnesota taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill for a lifetime of care for a child permanently disabled by birth injuries due to medical negligence, his lawyer said today.
“The economic burden will fall on those responsible for his condition, not on public health services, which often pick up the tab in catastrophic situations. This is not only justice for the child and his family, but for society as a whole,” said Howard Janet, of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLP, Baltimore, MD.
Jury awards record verdict for child’s cerebral palsy caused by brain injury sustained during birth.
A Minnesota jury awarded $9.3 Million to the family of a child who developed cerebral palsy as a result of mismanagement of labor and delivery.
On May 10, 2005, Ken Suggs received a $5.9 million verdict in the District of Columbia on behalf of a 62 year old woman and her husband. In the case, the surgeon and hospital failed to timely diagnose and treat a spinal epidural hematoma. The negligent failure to act promptly lead to the wife’s partial paraplegia and neurogenic bowel and bladder.
On April 14, 2005, a South Carolina jury awarded Lisa and Damon Viele, and their daughter Elizabeth $3.7 million dollars to compensate them for Elizabeth’s cerebral palsy injuries that she suffered at birth following Lisa’s doctor’s failure to perform a timely delivery. At trial the jury agreed that the doctor should have saved Elizabeth when she had the chance. Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC, was privileged to represent this wonderful family, and was pleased they were able to provide adequate compensation for the child’s future needs.
Robert K. Jenner of the Baltimore law firm of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC was one of several lawyers named as the 2009 Trial Lawyers of the Year by the Maryland Association for Justice.
Lawyers for a couple who won a $4.4 million verdict in a York County medical malpractice case said an electronic display of fetal monitoring data helped the jury understand the medical technicalities behind the plaintiff’s claims.