Sentences with phrase «multiple plaintiffs and defendants»

Richard Faulk, a Partner in Hollingsworth LLP in Washington, D.C., concentrates his practice in complex toxic tort and environmental litigation, including class actions and other mass tort cases involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants.

Accidents involving public transportation can result in significant injuries, wrongful death, and complex litigation involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants.

Not exact matches

As laid out in the appellate opinion, plaintiff ‟ s counsel and defendants ‟ counsel agreed to multiple extensions of plaintiff ‟ s time to file a motion for attorney fees on appeal, while they were trying to settle the amount owed.

«This is going to cause great uncertainty going forward in complex litigation against multiple defendants in federal courts and in state cases with plaintiffs in one state and a defendant in another state.»

Mr. Justice Weatherill awarded multiple Defendants costs and further ordered that the Plaintiff's lawyer personally pay these.

Lastly, and of some interest to future class action defendants, Strathy C.J.O. endorsed an arrangement whereby the competing plaintiff consortiums had provided an undertaking to the defendant, embodied in a court order, to prevent the continuation or commencement of multiple parallel actions following the resolution of the carriage dispute.

The plaintiff had a common law relationship with the former husband of the defendant, and the defendant acknowledged looking at the plaintiff's bank information without just cause or reason on multiple occasions.

However, if in the same car accident the plaintiff suffered burns, which resulted in multiple surgeries and months of prolonged physical therapy, the general damages would be awarded to compensate the victim for the pain and suffering that arose from the defendant's negligent or reckless action.

A versatile lawyer with extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, insurance coverage and price redetermination proceedings, James Rogers has tried multiple trials and arbitrations in Texas, Florida, Missouri, and California, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.

Joint and several liability is a doctrine that permits a plaintiff who is able to show that multiple defendants caused her injury to recover the full amount from any one of them.

After the jury returned the verdict for the defendant in Johnson v. McCullough, the plaintiff's lawyer searched a litigation database and found a non-responsive juror had been a defendant in multiple debt collection cases and a personal injury case.

The Post defendants argue that the statement does not have a defamatory meaning because the statement only reported that plaintiff had a sexual fantasy; it did not report that plaintiff actually engaged in sexual conduct with multiple men and multiple women or otherwise acted on the fantasy.

$ 70,000 — Motor vehicle accident results in multiple injuries (March 2011) Defendant failed to yield at a stop sign and crashed into the Plaintiff.

The plaintiff brought suit against multiple defendants, including the driver of the garbage truck and his employer, Republic Services of Georgia, L.P. With respect to these parties, the plaintiff argued that the garbage truck, which was traveling approximately 200 feet behind the Tahoe, was too close to the other vehicle, and had the garbage truck driver maintained a suitable distance, he would have observed her husband's body and avoiding hitting him.

$ 80,000 — Dog bite results in multiple injuries (Sep 2016) The Defendant's dog chased the Plaintiff into her garage and attacked her, causing multiple wounds to her knee, thigh, calf and arm.

$ 145,000 — Motor vehicle accident results in multiple injuries (May 2016) The Defendant rear ended the Plaintiff's vehicle, resulting in surgery to repair a broken screw and a loose screw from his prior neck surgery.

$ 65,000 — Motor vehicle accident results in multiple injuries (Sep 2016) The Defendant ran a red light and hit the Plaintiff resulting in injuries to her knee, ankle, head, neck and shoulder, and required surgery to repair a drooping eyelid.

$ 71,000 — Motor vehicle accident results in multiple injuries (July 2017) The Defendant ran a red light and hit the Plaintiff who was a passenger in a vehicle.

The case involved 5 plaintiffs and multiple defendants alleging carbon monoxide poisoning due to negligent design, installation, and maintenance of the hvac system.

$ 1.3 Million Settlement — Motor vehicle accident results in multiple fractures The Defendant went left - of - center and struck Plaintiff.

If there are multiple defendants responsible for an accident, they may each be held liable for the full sum of the plaintiff's damages under a theory of «joint and several liability.»

Any other material aspects, e.g., whether there were multiple plaintiffs or defendants, counterclaims, jury or bench trial, removal from state to federal court, use and value of alternative dispute resolution techniques, and so on,

In some instances a plaintiff may be successful at trial against one defendant, but lose against multiple other defendants who the plaintiff has named and, in the... [more]

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.