Sentences with phrase «dollar damages award»

Try one such matter in three - week arbitration where arbitrators decided software was defective and awarded a multi-million dollar damage award.

Not exact matches

After Monsanto, Apple ranked second and third for most damages awarded to it in such cases, with close to a billion dollars from — guess who — Samsung.

The move, which Denton confirmed on Monday via Twitter, will temporarily prevent Hulk Hogan, the professional wrestler whose real name is Terry Bollea, from collecting millions of dollars in damages he was awarded from Denton in an invasion - of - privacy lawsuit in May.

The six women list 20 causes of action each and seek tens of millions of dollars in damages and awards.

Benjy Firester, 18, of New York City, won the top award of $ 250,000 for his development of a mathematical model which predicts how disease data and weather patterns could spread spores of the «late blight» fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes billions of dollars in crop damages annually.

CLEMSON — Three Clemson University scientists have been awarded a $ 1.8 million grant to study gene expression in roots that eventually could pave the way for increased crop production, save the world billions of dollars in fertilizer usage and help rid the planet of a damaging pollutant.

The Chinese courts ruled completely in Tecmo Koei's favor, awarding the equivalent of $ 245,000 dollars in damages.

In the case of the tobacco industry, the courts did much of the heavy lifting, giving cancer victims standing to sue and allowing juries to award billions of dollars in punitive damages.

Amazon fired the security company accused of mistreating foreign - born temp workers; a federal jury awarded Patricia Cornwell over fifty million dollars in damages; a major theme of this year's PEN World Voices Festival is bravery; and other news.

It basically states that if a collection company breaks this law, then the consumer would be entitled to a statutory award of up to $ 1000 dollars plus legal fees and damages!

Here was a fellow who had just been awarded millions of dollars in damages, not to mention the option to destroy the offending works.

NARUC said the government's failure to begin accepting used nuclear fuel has resulted in more than $ 5 billion dollars in court - awarded damage settlements, at taxpayers» expense.

I award plaintiff zero dollars in damages.

The Court of Appeal held that the statutory deductible amendment was intended to have retrospective application based on a contextual analysis of related provisions of the Insurance Act and the reasoning that «since the jury awards damages in today's dollars, the quantum of the deductible should similarly be calculated in today's dollars».

Although this indemnity product provided some level of comfort to plaintiffs who were not seeking or expecting significant damages, it offered limited protection to plaintiffs with claims worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because it was very unlikely that any adverse cost award would exceed the amount of their damages.

In response to the jury's multi-million dollar award, the defendants filed a motion for remittitur or a new trial on the issue of damages.

About Attorney Ronald E. Gluck Ronald E. Gluck is a Boston personal injury attorney who has been practicing law for over 35 years and has obtained multi-million dollar awards for individuals who have suffered catastrophic injuries and damages from acts of negligence.

a. damages for pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life (the extent of the award will depend upon a variety of factors including the type of injury suffered the age of the injured party how the injury has affected the injured party's life and how badly the injury is expected to affect the injured party in the future); b. wage loss (if you are temporarily disabled and miss work after an accident then you can expect to collect the «dollar for dollar» equivalent of your provable loss); c. future wage loss or loss of ability to earn future income (if you are somehow permanently disabled, even if it is a partial permanent disability [ie.

Our lawyers have recovered multimillion - dollar settlements and damage awards for clients who have been injured and for families that have lost loved ones in accidents, including:

The highest reported defamation damages award was the $ 1.6 M award in Hill v Church of Scientology, which would be worth $ 2,243,657 in 2013 dollars.)

Because people's opinions vary widely regarding the dollar value of such items, awards for general damages can be inconsistent from case to case, although they generally fall within a certain range.

Jury Trial for compensatory and punitive damages, ICBC v. Finley and Finley, BC Supreme Court, 2003 unreported — awards in excess of $ 2.5 million dollars against each defendant

Successfully represented financial advisors in claims involving major Wall Street securities firms and obtained millions of dollars in compensatory and, in some cases, large punitive damage awards on behalf of the clients.

Their achievements have earned the Gertler firm membership in the Million Dollars Advocates Forum as a result of numerous damage awards in excess of one million dDollars Advocates Forum as a result of numerous damage awards in excess of one million dollarsdollars.

While still far below the multi-million dollar awards in the United States, there are now several decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal and British Columbia Court of Appeal where the employee has been awarded six - figure punitive damage awards for particularly egregious acts of the employer.

The Supreme Court agreed with the $ 1.1 million payment for non-pecuniary damages but confirmed that an award of 3 million dollars for wrongful conviction was too much for this case:

To be awarded these damages, the judge or jury will determine the specifics surrounding the injury, and they will then assign a dollar amount to those injuries.

This resulted in total legal costs of over a million dollars, which exceeded the amount of the damages awarded.

Giving the husband «every benefit of the doubt,» the trial judge awarded damages for loss of consortium in the amount of $ 7,500, which in 2018 dollars is $ 7897.50.

So - called «general» or «non-economic» damages in civil claims where someone is killed are awarded based upon California Civil Jury Instruction 3921, which states that a jury must come up with a dollar figure value for the loss of, «love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, moral support.»

The court awarded the table saw victim $ 1.5 million dollars in damages due partly to evidence introduced at trial which suggested that the injuries could have been almost entirely avoided had the table saw manufacturer and / or designer included this new type of flesh detecting safety device.

Obtained reinstatement of multimillion - dollar liquidated damages award in favor of a contractor against the Connecticut Department of Transportation.

Because the UW doctors are state employees — all state employees are covered by the cap — the ceiling on damage awards of any type is $ 250,000 per defendant, a cap that applies even if a doctor's negligence results in a lifetime injury that will require millions of dollars of future treatment.

Juries have awarded some plaintiffs several million dollars in damages.

The jury also awarded one quarter million dollars in punitive damages because of the companies extreme deviation from reasonable safety standards.

Although still far below the multi-million dollar awards occasionally awarded by courts in the United States, there have been several employment law cases in recent years that have awarded the dismissed employees six - figure punitive damage awards in addition to wrongful dismissal damages.

Punitive damages often rise to millions of dollars, so most places have caps on these awards.

Included among Mr. Jacobs» other recent binding arbitration victories were a low dollar award involving a 22 - year old claimant with organic brain damage and cognitive impairment, a fractured skull and a fractured cervical spine with surgical fusion and fixation.

Lead trial counsel in the first medical products class action / common issues trial tried to verdict in Canada (146 trial days), successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of life - saving cardiac devices in a national class action claiming more than a billion dollars in damages (awarded 2013 Canadian Product Liability Impact Case of the Year by LMG Life Sciences)

However, another recent American decision resulted in a $ 1.2 million dollar award for copyright infringement of another photograph, this time under statutory damages.

If leg - islatures have imposed caps on punitive damages through using a certain multiple of the compensatory damages or a certain flat dollar amount, then the wealthy defendant will simply view the punitive damages award as just a tax or a cost of doing business.

We are committed to getting the highest possible damage awards on behalf of our clients, and have already helped countless victims obtain millions of dollars in compensation.

Ventura claimed the entire story to be false, sued Kyle in court for the damage caused to his reputation, and was awarded $ 1.8 million dollars, which was