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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 23:16:13+00:00

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The Associated Press – LOS ANGELES (AP) — Virgin Records was negligent in chartering a small plane in which singer-actress Aaliyah and eight other people died last year, according to wrongful death lawsuits filed Wednesday on behalf of two victims’ families.
The Associated Press – Dateline: SEATTLE Alaska Airlines has taken legal responsibility for a January 2000 jet crash that killed all 88 aboard, and Boeing said it would not contest liability over the plane’s design.
The National Law Journal – A typical verdict last year was way up, but nothing like this one.
Los Angeles Times – Appealing to the court of public opinion as they try to protect the largest personal injury award in history, the survivors of a fiery crash will donate half the $4.9 billion.
Was it the boom or was it good lawyering?
The National Law Journal – Are large jury verdicts an aberration? If so, 1999 was a year of aberrations.
Los Angeles Times – Court: Attorney for six who won $4.9-billion judgement against General Motors says they will forgo most of it if cars similar to theirs are fixed.
The Daily Journal – GM Deserves Punitives for Valuing Profit More Than Human Lives.
California Law Business – General Motors, Ford, Firestone and now Goodyear are learning to fear [Santa Monica attorney]. With other consumer attorneys, he’s on a mission to shed new light on the auto industry’s dirty little secrets.
Anderson Case Summary – On July 9, 1999, a Los Angeles jury unanimously held General Motors liable for $4.9 billion dollars in punitive damages and $107 million in compensatory damages.
Los Angeles Daily Journal – Attorney Brian Panish won a record $5 billion for Alisha Parker, Ty-shon Haney and Pat Anderson in last year’s No. 1 verdict, a product liability case against General Motors.
Panish Shea & Boyle LLP represents another high school student in his appeal to play basketball after transferring to a new school.
The Daily Journal – In what plaintiffs’ lawyers described as the largest settlement for military personnel injured during the Iraq war, a federal judge in Los Angeles Wednesday approved a $13.5 million settlement against Boeing and four other companies.
dBusiness News – Panish Shea & Boyle LLP Announces That Court Approves Largest Known Settlement for Military Personnel Injured During War in Iraq: Major Settlement with Manufacturers of Army’s Apache Longbow Helicopter.
The Spinal Cord Injury Zone – Court approves $13.55M personal injury settlement against Boeing and others over Iraq Apache Longbow accident.
Seattle PI – Boeing, others settle with soldiers injured in helicopter crash.
FOX News – $13.5M Settlement in Army Copter Crash.
CBS 2 – Boeing To Pay $13.5M To Settle Soldiers’ Lawsuit.
Law Reporter – Hobbs, a Louisiana Pacific employee, was operating a skiploader on a private road owned by the railroad.
Carlos & Kaylie, minors v. Sea-Doo Bombardier, et al.
The firm is representing four teenagers and their families after the teenagers were seriously injured when a Sea Doo exploded.
$9 million settlement for amputation caused by a damaged freeway guardrail.
REAR END MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT PERSONAL INJURY – On May 22, 1985 plaintiff, Charles Davin, 57, was operating his Subaru automobile and stopped on Sepulveda Boulevard at a stop light in West Los Angeles at approximately 7:00 p.m.
Read more about the DePuy Hip Recall lawsuits here.
Francisco Garcia v. M-F Athletic Company, Inc.
Gandy, Estrada, and Reyes v. R.W. Mfg., Williams Patent Crusher, Imperial Mfg., Action Equip., Bolder UTP Welding, and Praxair Dist.
Industrial Products & Equipment: Gandy v. R.W. Mfg.
The Daily Journal – A jury has awarded $5.6 million to a woman who was seriously injured when a minivan she was riding in was struck by a farm truck at a crossroads in Imperial County six years ago.
Imperial Valley Press – An Imperial County jury awarded $5.64 million to Teresa Gonzalez of Brawley on Tuesday, who was severely injured when the van she was riding in was hit by a truck.
Griggs v. Caterpillar, et al.
Business Wire – August 15, 2007 – The Los Angeles based law firm Panish Shea & Boyle LLP, (www.psblaw.com) today announced that five lawsuits have commenced against Hewlett-Packard Company and certain of its officers and agents in the San Francisco Superior Court.
New York Times – In an unusual step for the news media, three journalists whose private phone records were scrutinized by investigators working for Hewlett-Packard intend to sue the company for invasion of privacy.
Panish Shea & Boyle LLP represented a high school student in his fight to play football after transferring to a new school to escape violence in his hometown.
Confidential Report For Attorneys – Welcome back to the grind — if you ever got away, that is.
The Los Angeles Times – The Hertz Corp. has agreed to pay $2.5 million in an out-of-court settlement to a former Van Nuys resident left paralyzed from the neck down by a multi-vehicle pileup after one of the company’s rental cars stalled on the Ventura Freeway.
Verdicta – A multi-vehicle accident which occurred on the ventura Freeway on October 12, 1985 at approximately 2:30 an,. A Hertz vehicle stalled in the number five lane and was rear ended.
Press-Telegram – A Bakersfield woman who has alleged that traffic lights are poorly timed at an intersection where she was struck by a vehicle and seriously injured may receive $650,000 from the city.
The National Law Journal – Has Firestone fallout created a “tort du jour” with tires as the main course?
Los Angeles Times – Court: A jury orders Continental General to pay $55 million for a defect that caused a rollover. The verdict is believed to be the largest involving tread-separation failure.
Jury Verdicts Weekly – April 23, 1984, the plaintiff, 40 years old, was injured when the auto in which she was a passenger struck an olive barrel (6′ x 4′) on Interstate 5 in Glenn County.
The firm is representing the family of Michael Jackson in the wrongful death lawsuit against Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc. (AEG) and its subsidiaries and principals.
Mario Batali accused by current and former employees of tip-stealing scheme at Pizzeria Mozza – Panish Shea & Boyle LLP represents a Mozza LLC employee and former employee in a class action lawsuit that alleges claims against Mozza LLC, and Mozza LLC partners Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich for conversion, failure to provide adequate meal and rest periods, failure to pay all wages due at termination, and unfair business practices. The case stems from Mozza LLC?s illegal policy of deducting from employee tips an amount equal to five percent of all wine sales to fund the company?s ?Wine Program.? California law prohibits the diversion of employee tips in this manner. The case also results from Mozza LLC?s practice of denying employees the opportunity to take rest and meal breaks as required by law. For more information about this case, please contact Jessie Kohler at 877-800-1700.
The Los Angeles Times Blog – Mario Batali has been sued for wrongfully deducting money from employee tips, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court.
48 Hours – Lawsuit claims that the “Iron Chef” Mario Batali is a glutton when it comes to his employees’ tips.
The Recorder – Panish Shea & Boyle LLP recognized in the June edition of The Recorder’s Top Verdicts for the Nelsen v. Hillyard case.
Press Release – 27 year-old Iraqi War veteran Michael Nelsen injured when Hillyard, Inc. truck rear-ended Mr. Nelsen’s vehicle on the I-15 freeway.
The Daily Journal – A San Bernardino County jury has awarded a Fullerton man $21 million in damages for severe injuries he sustained in a freeway crash with a cleaning company truck.
Deadline Hollywood Daily – Neville Johnson (of the firm Johnson and Rishwain) and Brian Panish (of Panish Shea & Boyle LLP) are meeting with many victims of the Pellicano wiretapping scandal to jointly represent them.
Confidential Report for Attorneys – JUST REPORTED… Brian J. Panish… report a $13 million (net) verdict against SCRTD for a negligent police chase.
Power Balance being sued for company’s fraudulent advertising of its bracelets, which claim to give users physiological benefits they cannot give, including improved balance, strength and flexibility.
Trial Lawyers Doing Public Justice – Citizens need the police to protect their rights. But what happens when citizens’ rights are put at risk because a police department covers up the misconduct of its own officers?
Rivas v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
Robert Crenshaw v. Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Panish Shea & Boyle LLP Announces a $6.45 Million Verdict – the largest personal injury verdict in the history of King’s County, California. The previous record for a personal injury verdict in King’s County was $1.6 million.
The firm is handling cases involving the wrongful deaths of three individuals killed in Robinson Helicopter crashes.
The Daily Journal – A Superior Court jury in Burbank on Wednesday awarded three adult siblings $25.5 million for the St. Patrick’s Day deaths five years ago of their parents and teen-age brother who were hit by a drunken driver.
Press Telegram – Settlement: Former L.B. Resident, who was crushed by van, awarded $10 million.
Los Angeles Times – A Superior Court jury awarded $10 million to a woman who was crushed by a van after a tire blowout while traveling from a South-Central Los Angeles church to a religious convention in Ohio, attorneys said Wednesday.
Confidential Report for Attorneys – Pltfs were members of Deft church, located in South Central Los Angeles. The church’s Praise Ministry was responsible for the sale of tapes, books and other items used to spread the gospel.
Tri-Service – Plaintiffs were members of the Greater Bethany Community Church located in South Central Los Angeles. The Church sold video and audio tapes and books in an effort to spread the gospel through their tape ministry.
January 19, 1999 – On Aug, 4, 1993, Shirlee Fuller was a passenger in a church van driven by Geoffrey Hunte when its left rear tire blew out near Albuquerque, N.M., and Mr. Hunte lost control of the van, said plaintiffs’ attorney Brian J. Panish.
The Daily Journal – In April 2002, Larry Sorenson, a 48-year-old computer engineer, was a passenger on a commuter train that was struck head-on by a freight train.
Los Angeles Times – An Orange County jury on Friday ordered the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway to pay $2.8 million to the parents of a Riverside commuter who died in a 2002 Metrolink accident in Placentia.
Navy Times – SANTA ANA, Calif. – The families of two Marines killed when their Cobra attack helicopter crashed in the Cleveland National Forest won $4.9 million from the maker of a fuel nozzle that failed, causing the crash.
CASE SUMMARY: Susan Elizabeth Johnson v. Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc.
Case Summary – The heirs of two marines killed in a helicopter crash brought a wrongful death action against the manufacturer of the helicopter’s engines.
$15 million verdict for brain injury to minor resulting from a power company truck hitting a family vehicle.
Associated Press – The families of three people among 18 killed in a charter jet crash in Aspen, Colo., accepted $11.7 million Monday in a last-minute settlement with the plane’s operators.
Los Angeles Times – Avjet Corp., a Burbank-based charter jet company, reached an $11.7-million settlement Monday with the families of three people killed two years ago in a plane crash in Aspen, Colo.
Associated Press – LOS ANGELES – A Southern California charter jet company must pay $10.2 million to families of three people killed in the 2001 plane crash near the Aspen airport, a jury ruled Wednesday.
Press Releases – Bradach – nalls seventh engineer support battalion was clearing mines near the city of Karbala Tuesday when the accident happened.
Verdict Search – Wu v. Singapore Airlines case details.
Don Yoon, a University City man whose wife, two baby daughters, and mother-in-law were killed Dec. 8, 2008, when a Marine Corps jet crashed onto their home, has sued the government and Boeing for negligence.

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