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February 28, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Broward County, Fla., judge indicated at a Feb. 5 hearing that he plans to reduce a jury’s award of $300 million to a nicotine-addicted former smoker in an Engle progeny suit, saying that the jury was clearly upset by the tobacco defendant’s tactics and rendered an outsized punitive award that cannot stand under Florida law (Lucinda Naugle v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. CACE07036736, Fla. Cir., 17th Jud. Cir., Broward Co.; See December 2004, Page 4).
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NEW YORK - In the appeal of a lower court’s vacatur of its earlier order regarding the status of an arbitration and the composition of an arbitration panel after one of the panel’s members resigned for health reasons, a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 21 denied the reinsured’s motion to dismiss the appeal on jurisdictional grounds and granted the reinsurers’ motion to stay the arbitration pending appeal (Insurance Company of North America, et al. v. Public Service Mutual Insurance Company, No. 09-3640-cv, 2nd Cir.).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Trustees to a pension fund did not waive privilege over documents containing legal advice from the attorney representing the fund even though the information was shared with unpaid consultants, a federal magistrate judge ruled Feb. 12 in denying the defendants’ motion to compel and ordering production of the documents for an in camera review (Trustees of the Electrical Workers Local No. 26 Pension Trust Fund, et al. v. Trust Fund Advisors Inc., et al., No. 03-2662, D. D.C.; 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12578).
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JACKSON, Miss. - When an expert’s reliability is attacked with evidence that his opinion is not generally accepted, the expert should at least provide minimal evidence supporting his opinion, the Mississippi Supreme Court held Jan. 28 in finding that a trial court correctly excluded a medical standard of care expert from a malpractice case (Shanika Hill, et al. v. Stephen Mills, No. 2008-CA-01343-SCT, Miss. Sup.; 2010 Miss. LEXIS 42).
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PHILADELPHIA - A disability claimant with a depressive disorder did not receive “regular and appropriate” care for her illness during the period she was “actively at work,” the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 4, finding no abuse of discretion in the insurer’s decision to deny benefits (Helena Barinova v. ING; ReliaStar Life Insurance Co., No. 08-4189, 3rd Cir.; 2010 U.S. App. Lexis 2368).
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Beginning Monday, the basement-level courtroom in D.C. Superior Court will be closed for about a year for renovations.
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As a member of the Junior ROTC, teenager Antonin Scalia toted his rifle on the subway ride back and forth to Queens. As a hunter, he speaks lyrically of stalking wild turkeys. And as a justice, he may have reached the pinnacle of his more than two decades on the Supreme Court when he wrote the majority opinion that said the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own a firearm.
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HOUSTON — It’s a 28-word word law that federal prosecutors have used for more than two decades to send high-profile public officials and corporate executives, including former Enron Corp. CEO Jeff Skilling, to prison.
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February 26, 2010
— Today is Saturday, Feb. 27, the 58th day of 2010. There are 307 days left in the year.
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A Fairfax County jury has awarded nearly $3 million to the family of a man who died after his esophagus tore while he was swallowing a piece of steak, finding an Alexandria radiologist liable for misdiagnosing the man’s condition as a hiatal hernia.
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