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Notable Cases & News
PENSACOLA – A former restaurant manager who was nearly electrocuted examining wiring from Christmas lights in 2002 won a nearly $1.3 million verdict against his former employers.
Escambia County jurors awarded the money to William Eberlin of Gulf Breeze on Wednesday. They found Innisfree Hotels Inc and Sunrise Hospitality of Pensacola Beach liable for injuries Eberlin, [...]
An Escambia County jury awarded nearly $1.3 million this week to a former Pensacola Beach restaurant manager who suffered a near-fatal electrical shock while examining wiring leading to Christmas lights three years ago.
Jurors found Innisfree Hotels Inc. and Sunrise Hospitality of Pensacola Beach – which own and operate the Beachside Resort on Via de Luna [...]
A Santa Rosa County jury on Wednesday awarded $800,000 in a lawsuit filed against a Pace pharmacist over a customer’s death.
Donna Kubitz of Milton filed the suit against David B. Winkles of Winkles Pharmacy after her husband committed suicide in 1998. The suit alleged the pharmacy dispensed medication to her husband, Bruce, without a doctor’s [...]
TULSA – The widow and mother of a 41-year-old Owassa were awarded $11.55 million Monday by a Tulsa County jury, which found a drug manufacturer guilty of marketing a defective oral drug.
Pfizer, Inc. was found guilty of marketing Rezulin, a diabetes drug the jury said was unreasonably dangerous.
The jury awarded $1.5 million in actual damages [...]
A Jefferson County jury has awarded $5 million in punitive damages to a Florida woman for the wrongful death of her husband, and against two Birmingham physicians and the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation.
Deborah Holland, of Crestview, Fla., claimed in her 1998 lawsuit that her husband, Robert T. Holland, Jr., entered the hospital for [...]
A Tulsa County jury on Monday awarded $11.55 million in damages to a widow who maintained that a prescription drug was linked to her diabetic husband’s death.
Jurors awarded $1.55 million in actual damages and $10 million in punitive damages to Mary Ross Wakefield of Owassa.
The verdicts against Warner-Lambert Co. – now Pfizer Inc. – concluded [...]
A six-person jury decided against Bay Medical Center in a civil suit Wednesday and awarded a Port St. Joe woman $435,000.
Shirley Norris, now Shirley Daniels, arrived at the emergency room with severe chest pains in 1992 and was examined by what the jury determined to be an unqualified physician – Dr. Joseph Ray.
“Mrs. Daniels was [...]
SHALIMAR – An Okaloosa County man was recently awarded a $320,219 verdict after he sued an insurance company following an injury he blamed on a traffic accident.
An Okaloosa Circuit Court jury found in favor of Michael L. Phillips, a self-employed partner in a local heating and cooling firm, after his underinsured motorist claim against his [...]
One of the largest personal injury awards in Bay County history was decided Thursday for an elderly man who said an unlicensed, under-aged car wash employee backed into his bicycle three years ago.
A jury awarded $330,000 to Steve Shimak, 76, and another $130,000 to his wife Irene. Irene Shimak, 74, received damages for the loss [...]
SHALIMAR – A jury awarded a Mossy Head man $160,000 in damages Thursday after finding a White-Wilson Medical Center surgeon negligent in his duties.
A 6.5-cm metal irrigation needle was left in John Clark’s neck by Dr. David Burkland when he performed emergency surgery on the man in June 1994 at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center.
“I [...]
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